Background

At a time when many engineers with skills in the construction of big energy infrastructures (nuclear power stations, power plants, dams, LNG tanks, wind turbines…) are going into retirement and when French industrial and corporate expertise holds out significant prospects for contracts both in France and abroad, it is essential to train high-level managers with a strong capacity for international adaptation in Structural Engineering, Project Management, Operations and Monitoring.

To meet these market needs in partnership with industries in the energy sector École des Ponts ParisTech and École Centrale Paris have joined forces to offer a specialist training programme in the civil engineering of large energy structures.

“The GCGOE Specialist Masters gives specialist engineers a training tailored to meet EDF’s Civil Engineering needs.Graduate engineers are recruited from the engineering units pto study civil engineering for new nuclear, hydroelectric and thermal power station projects, etc, but also to maintain and upgrade existing plants.
The content of the Masters gives engineers a solid grounding that enables them to get quickly up to speed in a new post and to take charge of complex projects that require sophisticated civil engineering expertise.”

Philippe Petiot - Project Leader
EDF Jobs and Skills Section

Objectives

The purpose of this programme is to prepare young civil engineers to manage design and structural engineering projects on large energy production and storage structures : nuclear power stations, dams, offshore structures, wind farms.

Benefits

• The grants provided by the partner companies (tuition fees partially or totally covered)
• The close partnership with companies in the sector; guaranteed in-company assignments
• Job openings in a high-potential sector
• Two benchmark civil engineering schools
• Site visits and one-week study trip

Openings

Graduates are likely to obtain posts as chief project engineers on large energy production and storage installations working for owners (big global energy corporations), in project management (engineering design offices) and construction firms..