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Salary THE OPPORTUNITY
At Howden, A Chart Industries Company, we are passionate about attracting early career talent to our organisation and we value the fresh ideas, perspectives, diversity and enthusiasm that graduates bring.
Our Graduate Programme, based in Renfrew, 15 minutes from Glasgow City Centre, provides a fantastic opportunity to accelerate your learning with a variety of real life work experiences across different business areas. It will offer you the opportunity to build your career in a global organisation with a worldwide reputation for engineering excellence and developing innovative solutions that help create a more sustainable world.
THE COMPANY
As an employee of Howden, A Chart Industries Company, you will learn new skills through assignments on exciting world-leading engineering and manufacturing projects from day one that help deliver cutting edge technology that really counts.
With a strong brand and rich heritage, the opportunities are endless, and we have the best in the business waiting to mentor and support your development. We operate in a diverse set of industries including infrastructure, power generation, oil & gas, wastewater, metals, mining and transportation.
Over the last 12 months we have received a number of global and local externally recognised awards for our progress in innovation and sustainability.
THE PRODUCTS
We have a world-wide reputation for engineering excellence and are acknowledged throughout the world as a market and technical leader. The key products from our portfolio that you would work on includes fans, rotary heaters and compressors.
As an established leader in the engineering and manufacturing of high-performance air and gas handling solutions, we are now at the forefront of the energy transition offering products in Hydrogen, Emissions Reduction and CCUS applications.
THE TRAINING
Our Graduate Programme is approved by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and during the first two years of the programme you will develop your knowledge and skills in different areas of the business through 8 x 3 month placements in core areas such as: design, research, contract engineering, project management, manufacturing, and field services; ensuring that you gain the knowledge, experience and skills required to reach Chartered status by IMechE. After your first two years in the programme you will move to a permanent role whilst continuing to receive mentoring from some of our most experienced and accredited leaders.
Whilst you will be based in our Renfrew location, there will be opportunities for worldwide travel and building connections with other European graduates.
THE CANDIDATES
To be considered for our graduate scheme you should hold either an IMechE accredited MEng degree in a Mechanical Engineering Discipline OR an IMechE accredited BEng (Hons) degree in a Mechanical Engineering Discipline plus appropriate Master’s degree
If you are unsure if your degree fits our requirements, you can check it here
https://www.engc.org.uk/education-skills/course-search/accredited-course-search/
In addition to your qualification, we encourage applications from individuals who can operate autonomously, taking responsibility at early stages as well as being effective within diverse team situations.
You will be expected to share best practice and learnings with others to influence new ways of working and improve processes.
In Return, we offer a range of fantastic benefits:
- A flexible and supportive work environment.
- A competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement package.
- Howden Pension Plan with Scottish Widows.
- Healthcare cash plan with Healthshield.
- Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal – Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing.
- Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary.
- Group Income Protection plan.
- Opportunity to be involved in our ESG ‘Bright Future’ initiatives – STEM ambassador & volunteering.
- Dedicated Help@Hand Service – Free Counselling, Physiotherapy, financial support etc.
- Training & Development Opportunities.
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay.
Interested? We would love to hear from you! Please follow the link to our website to apply.
