Tuesday 15^th July: Empowering Change - Exploring the Impact of Mentoring

Jake is the International Liaison lead for the Nuclear Institute Young Generation Network and has several years’ experience working with other nuclear societies around the world to enhance and create opportunities for cross-border collaboration. Jake has previous experience working in decommissioning, the supply chain and in public affairs before recently joining Nuclear Waste Services as a Site Evaluation Technical Support to the UK’s Geological Disposal Facility programme where he utilises his background in environment and geoscience to progress the project towards finding a final site for the safe and secure disposal of radioactive waste.

Sophie is a nuclear process engineer and early career professional at Mott MacDonald. A member of the Mott MacDonald ‘Women in Nuclear’ initiative (and previous programme director of the scheme), Sophie contributed to setting up the first mentoring scheme under the initiative and has participated as a mentee for the past two years. Sophie has found the scheme incredibly useful – it has helped to plan and shape a career journey in the nuclear industry and has provided additional insight into nuclear career pathways that would not have been identified otherwise.