ALTEN UK is seeking 30+ exceptional candidates for their Graduate Consultant Scheme, which combines extensive training and on-project experience with some of the UK’s best-known engineering companies.
If you're seeking to kickstart your career in engineering consultancy, with a rewarding role that will give you both the training and the project experience you need, plus the opportunity for fast-track progression, then we'd love to hear from you!
ALTEN UK delivers a broad range of engineering related projects across automotive, aerospace, defence, robotics, maritime, energy and space sectors, working with a variety of clients from established household names, through to small start-ups with novel and innovative technologies.
As a managed service provider, our consultants work hand in hand with clients and their ALTEN team-mates to provide ongoing and impactful project support, with a focus on addressing engineering challenges, delivering technical solutions and improving outcomes.
Commencing in October 2022, ALTEN’s Graduate Consultant Scheme is a 2 year graduate program that provides everything you need to fast-track into delivering projects at a high level.
What you'll do
- Complete first-class induction training followed by three 6-month placements (each in a different sector).
- Experience a range of projects, businesses, sectors, and workplaces, getting to know and understand how our clients operate.
- Work alongside client teams to understand their challenges, provide expert guidance, and then follow this up with the technical know-how to put that guidance into action
- Develop technical proficiency, learn new skills - solving problems and shaping solutions
- Develop strong trusting relationships with clients and team-mates.
Some projects will be challenging, but they will always be rewarding, and you’ll be surrounded by a team of talented people who will support you all the way!
Requirements
- A 2.1 or first-class bachelors’ degree in science, technology, engineering, or maths.
- A commitment to personal improvement and continuous professional development.
- Emerging people and project management skills and the drive to take on responsibility
- Determination to be the best and genuinely make things better for people and the planet.
- Strong communication skills accompanied by self-awareness and emotional intelligence. You enjoy helping people.
- The ability to make sense of complexity and present technical solutions that resonate with stakeholders.
- The passion, resilience, and energy to work hard and sustain what it takes to succeed.
Benefits
- A package worth £28,000 with a base salary of £24,000 plus other rewards and benefits
- A highly motivated, talented and supportive team with a positive company culture.
- Stability, ongoing learning and development, regular career progression reviews, access to a diverse range of projects
- The opportunity to find your place in a growing organisation
- Extensive induction training
- Projects with a variety of clients, locations and workplaces, all with real-world impact.
- Fast-track progression based on merit, and a choice of career pathways (business manager, technical expert, …)
- The knowledge, skills and experience to ensure you’ll always be in demand, wherever your career may take you…
ALTEN values
We take pride in our diversity and we respect and value multiple approaches and points of view. We challenge inequality in all its forms, in others, and especially in ourselves.
As an equal opportunities employer, ALTEN will never discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background, marital status, or disability status.