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Karen WilliamsKaren Williams

Project Manager, Jacobs

Karen Williams has worked as a Project Manager for 5 years leading fundamental research to support the future direction of the Naval Research and Technology Programme. Presently Karen is in the final stages of delivering capital rigs that will undertake bespoke testing for clients such as the Ministry of Defence, EDF and Rolls-Royce. Recently Karen has been asked to join the Construction Safety Share Forum to engage and brief back across the department to ensure lessons learned are shared more broadly.

Karen’s key successes were the delivery of a HVAC system during COVID shutdown juggling many difficult stakeholders, which allowed her to lean into her strengths bringing order to chaos, and in many instances focus to the Birchwood-based technical community who would prefer to ponder the outcome a little longer.

Karen has been a Positive Mental Health Champion for 2 years, enjoy being available to anyone on Birchwood site who needs support leveraging on her super power of emotional intelligence.  Karen is first point of contact within the team to coach and mentor new starters to Jacobs.  

Outside of work Karen enjoys taking her dog Molly for long walks, yoga with friends and trips away in her new home project- her campervan.

Session: New to Nuclear - Transition into nuclear from other sectors

In January 2024 the UK Government published its civil nuclear roadmap to 2050 outlining its commitment to a massive investment in home-produced clean energy. This Roadmap sets out a clear path for the growth of nuclear and explains how the UK will develop the skills and supply chains required to support this strategy. One of the biggest challenges is expanding the skills required to support this rapidly growing industry.

In this session, Jacobs, a leading provider of project management services across the nuclear sector, will share insights and learning from its ‘New to Nuclear’ programme designed to support mid-career and lateral entrants whose existing skills and expertise can be utilised in the nuclear sector.

There will also be a chance to hear from a recent graduate from the programme and find out more about the opportunities abundant within the nuclear sector.