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Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway, United Kingdom
Argyll, United Kingdom
Lanark, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mechanical Engineering - Graduate Apprenticeship
Location: Dalmally, Glasgow, Galloway or Lanark
Salary: Year 1 - £19,440 to Year 4 - £39,960
Start date: August 2024
Closing date: Sunday 31st March 2024
Are you torn between starting your career in Engineering or going to university? Join us on a Graduate Apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering, within Drax Hydro and you can qualify and get experience at the same time!
About the role
You’ll start your four-year Graduate Apprenticeship programme with us in August 2024. From your first day you’ll be an active team member within our Hydro Engineering team supporting our portfolio of low-carbon, flexible hydro and pumped storage power stations across Scotland.
There’s no such thing as a typical day as an apprentice and you'll be involved in developing engineering specifications, planning and delivering Mechanical Engineering projects and offering support to our operations and maintenance teams. You’ll be well supported from every employee within the company as you grow into your new career.
Ultimately, you’ll be learning to be responsible and accountable for the equipment and systems that form our hydro power schemes. But that’s not all, you’ll also be learning to solve problems safely, logically, quickly, and confidently. Further training and development are a key part of your career journey at Drax as well, and this comes in many forms such as on the job training, working at different sites, or further qualifications.
You’ll be exposed to a range of activities from outage support to refurbishment and maintenance. This will involve working collaboratively with the team to find the best solution to challenges, utilising your problem-solving skills and leveraging the knowledge you gain through your apprenticeship. Through a structured training plan, we’ll enable you to achieve both career progression and your goal of achieving a professional recognised engineer status in the future.
What we’re looking for…
You’ll need (or be predicted to achieve a minimum of 4 SQA Highers at BBBC including Maths and English and at least one science subject (you’ll need to prove these before you start so make sure you keep your certificates handy).
Our training provider accepts selected Foundation Apprenticeships, in combination with SQA Highers, for entry to the degree programme. Your Foundation Apprenticeship will take the place of one SQA Higher qualification for our standard entry requirements and will be treated as equivalent to a B grade at Higher.
We can also support non-standard entry, so if you have prior work experience and professional qualifications there is a possibility to be considered through the university’s flexible entry system let us know this in your application if this applies to you.
As well as getting the right grades, we’ll also be looking for candidates who seek a future career in engineering and see this as an opportunity to study whilst getting hands on experience in the real world of work. You’ll be a good communicator who can work as part of a team, and you’ll have excellent listening skills with energy, drive, and initiative.
Please note that due to the travel requirement of this role and remote location of some of our sites, you must hold a full, valid driving licence.
About Drax
Drax Group is at the forefront of renewable energy – we’re working exceptionally hard to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future which is changing the way energy is generated, supplied, and used.
Moving away from fossil fuels means building an electricity system that is primarily based on renewables. Supporting wind and solar, by providing electricity at times of low sunlight or wind levels, will require flexible sources of generation. Our pumped storage and run-of-river hydro stations help to reinforce the UK’s renewable energy mix.
Cruachan Power Station, affectionately known as the ‘Hollow Mountain’, resides deep inside Ben Cruachan Mountain in Argyll and Bute. The site is one of only four pumped storage hydro stations in the UK and has a capacity of 440 MW – enough to power more than 90,000 homes.
Lanark and Galloway run-of-river hydro schemes, located in south-west Scotland, have a combined capacity of 126 MW – enough to provide electricity to more than 100,000 homes.
Application Process
We pride ourselves on creating a great experience for anyone who applies to join Drax, so you can expect clear and timely communication throughout the process.
Once you hit “Apply”, you’ll be taken through our application questions. Adding a CV is optional.
We’ll review your application with interest, and be in touch if we have any questions.
If your application is progressed, the next step in our recruitment process will be to complete an online verbal and numerical reasoning assessment. We appreciate they’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but it will help us to determine whether you’ll be able to deliver in our Graduate Apprenticeship role.
This will be followed by an interview with our Hiring Managers, covering a selection of technical, competency and behavioural questions.
If you’d like more information, please email briony.bradford@drax.com.
Location: Dalmally, Glasgow, Galloway or Lanark
Salary: Year 1 - £19,440 to Year 4 - £39,960
Start date: August 2024
Closing date: Sunday 31st March 2024
Are you torn between starting your career in Engineering or going to university? Join us on a Graduate Apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering, within Drax Hydro and you can qualify and get experience at the same time!
About the role
You’ll start your four-year Graduate Apprenticeship programme with us in August 2024. From your first day you’ll be an active team member within our Hydro Engineering team supporting our portfolio of low-carbon, flexible hydro and pumped storage power stations across Scotland.
There’s no such thing as a typical day as an apprentice and you'll be involved in developing engineering specifications, planning and delivering Mechanical Engineering projects and offering support to our operations and maintenance teams. You’ll be well supported from every employee within the company as you grow into your new career.
Ultimately, you’ll be learning to be responsible and accountable for the equipment and systems that form our hydro power schemes. But that’s not all, you’ll also be learning to solve problems safely, logically, quickly, and confidently. Further training and development are a key part of your career journey at Drax as well, and this comes in many forms such as on the job training, working at different sites, or further qualifications.
You’ll be exposed to a range of activities from outage support to refurbishment and maintenance. This will involve working collaboratively with the team to find the best solution to challenges, utilising your problem-solving skills and leveraging the knowledge you gain through your apprenticeship. Through a structured training plan, we’ll enable you to achieve both career progression and your goal of achieving a professional recognised engineer status in the future.
What we’re looking for…
You’ll need (or be predicted to achieve a minimum of 4 SQA Highers at BBBC including Maths and English and at least one science subject (you’ll need to prove these before you start so make sure you keep your certificates handy).
Our training provider accepts selected Foundation Apprenticeships, in combination with SQA Highers, for entry to the degree programme. Your Foundation Apprenticeship will take the place of one SQA Higher qualification for our standard entry requirements and will be treated as equivalent to a B grade at Higher.
We can also support non-standard entry, so if you have prior work experience and professional qualifications there is a possibility to be considered through the university’s flexible entry system let us know this in your application if this applies to you.
As well as getting the right grades, we’ll also be looking for candidates who seek a future career in engineering and see this as an opportunity to study whilst getting hands on experience in the real world of work. You’ll be a good communicator who can work as part of a team, and you’ll have excellent listening skills with energy, drive, and initiative.
Please note that due to the travel requirement of this role and remote location of some of our sites, you must hold a full, valid driving licence.
About Drax
Drax Group is at the forefront of renewable energy – we’re working exceptionally hard to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future which is changing the way energy is generated, supplied, and used.
Moving away from fossil fuels means building an electricity system that is primarily based on renewables. Supporting wind and solar, by providing electricity at times of low sunlight or wind levels, will require flexible sources of generation. Our pumped storage and run-of-river hydro stations help to reinforce the UK’s renewable energy mix.
Cruachan Power Station, affectionately known as the ‘Hollow Mountain’, resides deep inside Ben Cruachan Mountain in Argyll and Bute. The site is one of only four pumped storage hydro stations in the UK and has a capacity of 440 MW – enough to power more than 90,000 homes.
Lanark and Galloway run-of-river hydro schemes, located in south-west Scotland, have a combined capacity of 126 MW – enough to provide electricity to more than 100,000 homes.
Application Process
We pride ourselves on creating a great experience for anyone who applies to join Drax, so you can expect clear and timely communication throughout the process.
Once you hit “Apply”, you’ll be taken through our application questions. Adding a CV is optional.
We’ll review your application with interest, and be in touch if we have any questions.
If your application is progressed, the next step in our recruitment process will be to complete an online verbal and numerical reasoning assessment. We appreciate they’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but it will help us to determine whether you’ll be able to deliver in our Graduate Apprenticeship role.
This will be followed by an interview with our Hiring Managers, covering a selection of technical, competency and behavioural questions.
If you’d like more information, please email briony.bradford@drax.com.
