LifeScan STEM Graduate Programme - 6 positions Inverness, Scotland
Job description
LifeScan STEM Graduate Programme – 6 positions
- 2-year rotational programme based in Inverness, Scotland
- Starting salary of £29,000 plus excellent benefits package including; private health care, performance-based bonus, and matched contributions pension scheme
- This role will close for applications on Sunday 12th March 2023
We're offering a unique professional graduate programme with a highly successful global company in a beautiful part of the world.
Inverness is the place where you can listen to fantastic live music, ski, cycle, visit the local theatre, climb, swim, view some of the most stunning scenery in the world, and offers the social scene you'd expect of a larger city.
If you're not quite sure what your ideal job is but you've already gained some fantastic qualifications, then this programme can really help you to gain exposure and development with our various departments and job roles.
Who are LifeScan
LifeScan is dedicated to providing meaningful solutions for people with diabetes and related conditions. At our Inverness site, we design and develop systems for the self-monitoring of blood glucose used by people with diabetes across the globe. We're proud to have the largest manufacturing site in the industry and have capability to produce over 5 billion test strips every year!
Being at the forefront of science and engineering means our teams of professionals nurture, shape, and deliver the solutions for people with diabetes. You'll perform amongst these subject matter experts, providing you the tools to start you on your journey to become an authority in your field.
Why we care
- Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, stroke and lower-limb amputation
- The number of people with diabetes has risen from just over 100 million in 1980 to well over 400 million today
- An estimated 1.6 million deaths were directly attributed to diabetes in 2016
- For people living with diabetes, access to affordable treatment and monitoring is critical to their survival.
- Lifescan is a socially responsible company and is the world's largest producer in the diabetes therapeutic area
- Ultimately, our products change lives for the better and help create a world without limits for people with diabetes
What you'll gain from this programme
Our well-established graduate scheme has been running for 17 years, during which time almost 70 young professionals have gone through the programme. We're proud of the fact we retain 100% through our 2-year programme when typically employers lose 16% during the first 2 years – AGR 2017 (The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) Development Survey 2017).
It's a great way to ease your transition from academia to industry where we use a development framework to broaden and deepen your knowledge and experiences.
You'll gain this from hands-on coaching, rotation through multiple departments tailored to your future and a huge variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use now and throughout your career.
To give you an idea of what you could be involved in, here's a list of some of the areas our graduates have worked in previously:
- Product & Process Engineering
- Quality Lab Support
- Lineside Engineering
- Customer Quality
- External Contract Operations
- Operations Quality Engineering
- Design and Product Quality
Eligibility to join the programme
You will have graduated within the last 2 years with a minimum of a Bachelor degree within a STEM discipline at grade 2:1 or above, or be due to graduate in summer 2023 with a predicted mark at this level.
You'll also be eligible to work in the UK on a permanent basis.
Key skills and competencies
You'll bring:
- A proactive approach to achieving success
- Excellent team-working and communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- A strong desire to work in Health Care
Next Steps and Key Dates
We are an agile organisation, so we have streamlined the recruitment process in to 3 stages: Online Application (C.V) – Telephone Interview – Assessment Centre.
Closing date: 12th March 2023
Telephone interviews: Weeks commencing Monday 13th and Monday 20th March 2023
Assessment centres: Week commencing Monday 3rd April 2023
