Materials Scientist - Graduate Programme United Kingdom
Job description
Graduate Materials Scientist Opportunities at Victrex …
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Materials Scientist to join our Graduate Development Programme. Perhaps you are fresh out of University, or have a little experience, but your current role isn’t quite for you. We get it!
Fresh-out-of-University graduates & Career Changers, we want to hear from you!
Join us as a Graduate Materials Scientist, where you’ll have the opportunity to work on the development of new products and processes that have the potential to change #tomorrowsworld.
What’s the role?
This opportunity allows you to carry out a role/assignments as a Graduate Materials Scientist with all the development opportunities and perks you'd expect from a top-class graduate programme.
This role is all driven by fundamental science and is a fantastic opportunity for someone that has an interest in product development and materials science to design materials and processes that enable us to manufacture our high specification products at Victrex.
This pathway will enable you to apply the skills and know-how from your studies to solve ‘real world’ challenges in polymer development and production. By understanding materials at a molecular level, we are able to develop the right products to meet market needs, through a combination of chemistry, polymer science and materials science. This area of R&D involves working and collaborating on projects from the laboratory all the way through to production plant scale.
A 3-year Graduate Development Programme that can supercharge your career.
You will receive outstanding support from colleagues to help you develop your talent, and enjoy a career full of excitement, variety, and the opportunities to grow your knowledge, whilst being a part of the technological innovation of tomorrow for which Victrex is renowned globally.
Choose a Career Pathway, which offers you a graduate role alongside others who share in our determination to innovate. The Graduate Development Programme marries the very best opportunities to enhance your knowledge whilst at the same time, carrying out a hands-on role and being a part of a Company who are at the forefront of polymer technology, materials science and manufacturing for tomorrow.
It won't only be on-the-job training and support you will receive, we will also enrol you in our Career Catalyst Programme, which focuses on providing specialist career coaching support to give you the best opportunity to springboard your career whilst on the GDP.
Victrex recognises the benefits professional registration brings to its business and colleagues alike. Therefore, we will actively support your ambitions for reaching Charter status and, to add to that, we will even pay your annual fees for professional membership too.
Is this you?
You will have recently graduated with a bachelor’s or higher degree in polymer science or materials science with experience of practical experimentation in an academic and/or industrial environment. Our Graduate Development Programme has been designed to flex to your specific development needs. Therefore, we are also interested in hearing from candidates who may have graduated in recent years and have 1-3 years’ experience but fancy a role or career change.
What's on offer?
With starting salaries of £33,500 - £35,500, plus sign-on and performance related bonuses associated with this fantastic opportunity, we offer a very competitive package for joiners of our Graduate Development Programme.
We offer support with relocation, flexible working, private medical insurance and give employees 29 days annual leave per annum + bank holidays with the option of purchasing up to 2 additional weeks leave too.
The perks are great, but so is our culture - and you can read more about it below.
Victrex values diversity and encourages applications from all
sections of the community.
Please talk to us about flexible working.
About Victrex:
Victrex is an innovative world leader in high-performance PEEK and PAEK polymer solutions focusing on the strategic markets of automotive, aerospace, energy (including manufacturing and engineering), electronics and medical. Every day, millions of people use sustainable products and applications containing our materials – from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to oil and gas operations and medical devices. With over 40 years‘ experience we are developing world leading solutions with PEEK and PAEK-based polymers and selected semi-finished and finished parts which shape future performance for our customers and our markets, deliver environmental and societal benefits, and drive value for our shareholders. Find out more at www.victrex.com
Victrex is a multinational company, with locations as diverse as the USA, Europe and across Asia. But our HQ, is situated in Thornton-Cleveleys U.K., in the Fylde (Lancashire); which boasts easy transport links to the beautiful countryside of the Fylde coast and into the Lakes. As well as easy city links to Blackpool, Preston, Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester. Giving you the best of all worlds, by putting you firmly in a region which provides everything most people could wish for, including a wide range of sports, recreational groups, to the very best in diverse nightlife choices. All options are here in the North West close to or just a quick trip from our global HQ.
Vison & Culture:
By nature, Victrex is a product leader: innovation is one of the core values of our business, together with our passion and performance! Victrex’s day-to-day culture is one of collaboration, support and enablement. Cross-functional interaction is key to our daily work. All our employees play an important role in contributing to the Victrex vision and culture which we are consistently enhancing and developing for the 21st Century.
We have also recently become winners of the prestigious Ecovadis Gold Award, which is a universal acknowledgement of Victrex’s sustainability rating as being in the top 5% of over 75,000 companies. We are also proud to be recognised as a ‘Disability Confident’ employer!
Why Join Victrex?
You will be part of a high performing and dedicated team within a FTSE-250 company. You’ll experience a wide variety of work, with no two days being the same. Working closely with colleagues across the business including in our international locations to deliver results of the highest quality. You could be a part of an international enterprise with entities in Europe, Asia, and America, all joining together to provide world-class innovations that help shape the world of tomorrow!
