NNL Employees

The percentage of staff who are women has increased to 29% - overall the percentage of women is slowly increasing each year as shown below. NNL’s proportion of women is higher than the Nuclear Sector’s overall position which reports a 20% split and, in 2020, 37% of all our new starters were women, which is the highest level ever recorded for NNL.

For the roles recruited in the year from April 2020, the number of applicants varied from one to over 100 for direct entrant roles and between 50 and 900 for our Early Careers schemes, with a mean of 21 applicants per role overall and averaging at 34% women applicants per role. Some roles had no women applicants and others had 100% women applicants. These cases usually occurred for roles with low total applicants or single applicants. As over 30 of the roles had a single applicant, the limited statistical information embedded in small applicant pools may skew the overall percentage of women applicants and blur our understanding of the attraction of these roles for men and women. However, it is noted that in the financial year under consideration, those roles with the lowest percentage of women applicants tended to be against our Laboratory Operations areas (such as mechanical craft, commissioning engineer and asset engineer) and our higher paid roles (i.e. in strategy roles and more senior leadership roles).