Our OneStart Graduate Engineers are our future technical leaders and managers. The programme, for OneStart Graduates Engineers, provides opportunities for our candidates to develop skills and product knowledge, including leadership, customer interaction and the delivery of all aspects of the Engineering scope of supply to meet our high internal standards.
The role
Our OneStart Graduate Engineers can also work towards professional membership with a recognised professional body. At the end of the two-year graduate programme, our engineers can use our well-established career ladders and development programmes, to further enhance their progression through the organisation. Your success will reward you with a lasting career as an expert working at the forefront of technological innovation in locations across the globe.
Our two–year development programme usually includes eight rotations offering the opportunity to work in different teams across the engineering department. There may also be an opportunity to complete a secondment to one of our manufacturing plants, some of which are overseas. Based at our modern offices on the outskirts of Leeds, you will learn the business from the ground up to become a skilled and confident specialist in the sector. We offer a hybrid working pattern allowing you to benefit from working in the office and the flexibility of some time working from home. During the initial training period you will be required to be in the office for the majority of your working week.
The programme will include rotations into some of the following disciplines:
- Product Engineering
- Project Engineering
- New Technology Development
- Systems Engineering
- Engineering Support Services
- Project Tendering
Essential Responsibilities and Duties
During the training programme your principal accountabilities will include:
- Preparing drawings, information and documentation which meet relevant engineering standards to enable the manufacturing group and other departments to produce and market the Company's product(s).
- Carrying out design and development work under the guidance of experienced engineers to meet customers' and/or the industry's needs.
- Working within stated procedures to ensure that design records/controls are maintained.
- Developing in depth knowledge of our company products, design principles, manufacturing techniques, economic and safe design.
- Participating in Value Engineering/Analysis initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering (other closely related degrees considered) of a 2:2 standard or above.
- Be globally mobile
- The desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic business on high value, technically complex products/project
Preferred Skills
Candidates must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and have the ability to:
- Make sound decisions and initiate Decide and initiate action
- Present and communicate clearly and confidently
- Constantly drive to learn and research
- Deliver results and meet demands
- Remain positive during setbacks, and whilst working in a fast-pace environment.