PFE Engineer / Industrial Engineering Intern

This internship is for an Industrial Engineering student (Bac+5) to join the ARTELIA Industrie Cherbourg team. The intern will work on large-scale industrial projects, focusing on technical modifications and improving industrial tools at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant. Missions include analyzing needs, data collection, documentation, solution research, drafting specifications, participating in consultations, and supervising construction sites, with a focus on organizational, technical, and operational optimizations.

Must Have

• Analyze needs
• Create a basic data collection
• Collect documentation on the Client GED
• Collect information from relevant departments (maintenance, safety, operations, specialists)
• Research solutions
• Present projects, plans, technical notes, descriptions
• Draft specifications
• Participate in consultation and selection of service providers
• Participate in site supervision
• Seek permanent organizational, technical, and operational optimizations

Good to Have

• Good managerial spirit
• Good writing skills (synthetic, concise)
• Rigorous, motivated, and methodical
• Knowledge of Office Suite, databases, Solidworks CAD tool
• Good team spirit
• Ability to take a step back in missions
• Great curiosity
• Sense of sharing and mutual aid

Perks & Benefits

• Internship allowance and meal allowances
• A springboard for your future career at Artelia
• A close tutor within a human-sized team
• Expert mentors to support you on varied projects
• A dedicated HR team to guide you during the internship

Company Description

Who are we?

We are an engineering group, a major player in the fields of building, water, energy, environment, industry, and mobility.

100% owned by our employees, we are united by the same passion: to practice a profession that combines the art of ingenious design and committed execution.

Our 10,000 employees, in over 40 countries, create solutions every day for a positive life through our strategic challenges for the planet and humanity. Our teams are human-sized, favoring proximity, daily exchanges, and sharing of experience.

For this position, you will join ARTELIA INDUSTRIE, composed of 850 passionate employees, spread across more than 30 locations in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Morocco. Together, we design, adapt, and modernize industrial facilities to meet tomorrow's challenges: production, economic performance, energy transition, and facility safety.

• Recognized expertise: We excel in implementing various production processes by relying on our specialized expertise in equipment, piping, mechanics, electricity, instrumentation, automation, metal structures, civil engineering, and building.
• Diverse activity with large-scale and local projects: Our teams work in strategic sectors such as Carbon Refining and Recycling, Petrochemistry, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Nuclear, Gas, Offshore, Aeronautics, Railway, Naval and Space Construction, Steelmaking, Mines, Microelectronics, and Defense.

To facilitate reading, inclusive writing is not used in the body of this announcement; terms used in the masculine refer to women, men, and non-binary people alike.

Job Description

Your team:

You will join our ARTELIA Industrie Cherbourg (50) team, which works on large-scale, multi-disciplinary industrial projects (general installation, piping, industrial electricity, instrumentation, mechanics, processes, etc.).

The team, composed of 45 people (technicians/engineers), works on Project Management and Design & Build missions in the fields of Nuclear Industry, Naval, Agri-food, Petrochemistry, and Port Infrastructures, at all stages of a project from feasibility to execution and site supervision.

As an intern, you will evolve within a team dedicated to processing technical modifications and improving the industrial tools of a nuclear site, specifically a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in La Hague, whose technologies are cutting-edge and constantly improving, covering a significant plurality of trades: mechanical processes, fluids, electricity/electrotechnics, metal structures, equipment dismantling, radiation protection control.

Your missions:

As an Engineer Intern, you will join our Design Office and will be involved in the different phases of projects, from the elaboration of technical proposals to the entire execution of turnkey projects.

In this context, your missions will consist of:

• Analyzing needs,
• Creating a basic data collection
• Collecting documentation on the Client GED
• Collecting information from relevant departments (maintenance, safety, operations, specialists.)
• Researching solutions,
• Presenting projects, plans, technical notes, descriptions…
• Drafting specifications
• Participating in the consultation and selection of service providers
• Participating in site supervision
• Seeking permanent organizational, technical, and operational optimizations.

Example project topic: the complete revamping of a fiberglass unloading facility to prepare the feeding of a calciner for encapsulation, in compliance with FOH requirements.

Qualifications

Your strengths:

You are the ideal profile if you are currently pursuing a Bac+5 Industrial Engineering degree or equivalent (e.g., INSA, UTC, ENSAM… general engineering schools, ideally with a specialization in nuclear). You wish to join a company for your final year project. You are a person with a good managerial spirit, good writing skills (synthetic – concise…), rigorous, motivated, and methodical: monitoring project execution in compliance with Quality, Safety, Security, and Environment constraints.

You are familiar with IT tools such as Office Suite, databases, Solidworks CAD tool.

You never work alone; a good team spirit, an ability to take a step back in your missions, great curiosity, and a sense of sharing and mutual aid with your colleagues will be your assets for success.

Working on Artelia projects allows you to continuously enrich and develop your skills. Our structured training paths (by specialties or trades) will be adapted to curious individuals eager to progress in their field.

Additional Information

As an Intern, we offer you:

• An internship allowance accompanied by meal allowances
• A springboard for your future career at Artelia
• A close tutor within a human-sized team
• Expert mentors to support you on varied projects of different sizes
• A dedicated HR team to guide you during your internship

Our recruitment process:

Getting to know each other to choose each other is what we offer you during the 2 stages of our recruitment process:

1. Phone exchange / Interview with a recruiter to better understand your expectations and guide your application. The objective is to present our group, career prospects, the outlines of the envisioned position, and above all, to understand who you are, your aspirations, your motivations, your professional project.

2. Interview with an operational manager: they will present the missions in more detail, what they expect from you, how the team operates, and the projects.