Job Title: Graduate R&D Engineer
Location: Aberdeen
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full Time Permanent 37.5-hour week
Rubberatkins’ Research and Development Engineers are fundamental to the sustaining and innovation of our products and technical capabilities which support the organisation’s continuing growth. This position is an exciting opportunity to join our accredited graduate scheme and directly contribute to the design, development, and testing of our products alongside industry leading engineers.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AT RUBBERATKINS:
You will have the opportunity to work alongside a team of experienced engineers who bring our products from customer brief to conceptual design through to testing and into manufacturing. All while ensuring continual commitment to our quality and reliability standards. You will also gain experience in researching and trialling novel concepts and solutions to complex challenges and work collaboratively with other departments in order to strengthen and maintain our global reputation.
WHAT YOU NEED:
- A master’s degree in an Engineering Discipline
- A willingness to learn and commitment to Continuing Personal Development
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- A desire to work within a fast-paced environment
WHAT YOU WILL GET:
Rubberatkins can offer their graduates a comprehensive and structure opportunity to develop as a confident engineer whilst developing a robust and varied technical skill set. Our diverse and experienced engineering team will be on hand to support and encourage your growth from day one while giving you hands-on exposure to high level engineering challenges and projects. Our MPDS scheme gives graduates the opportunity to build a cross functional understanding of the organization through departmental placements and to evidence their learning through the submission of quarterly reports to the IMeche.
In addition to the above, graduates can benefit from:
- 2.30pm finishes on Fridays
- 37.5-hour week – Monday to Thursday (0830 – 1700) Friday (0830 – 1430)
- 33 days annual leave
- Additional loyalty days
- Christmas Shutdown
- Life Insurance
- Access to online GP Services
- Pension Contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Onsite Parking
- Professional subscriptions and further study support
- Relocation Packages (Ts&Cs Apply)
YOUR CAREER AT RUBBERATKINS
Upon successful completion of the two-year graduate scheme, you will be promoted into an R&D Engineer role and be on an accelerated and structured route to CEng status.
COMPANY VALUES:
At Rubberatkins we are committed to staying the number one elastomer supplier by continually improving our performance through innovation and our people.
To deliver our mission and value to our customers, we believe that we can only do this by our values.
- Happy People
- Effective People
- Responsible People
- Decisive People
We believe that our people are key in our success and our values represent our fundamental beliefs. These beliefs reflect those aspects of our way of working that collectively inspire each other to be the best they can be.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job title of: Electronic Design Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer, CAD drafting, CAD modelling, Engineering Project Management, Production Engineer, Project Management, Operations Engineer, Prototype Development Engineer, Prototype Designer, Production Projects Engineer, Production Operations, Project Coordinator, Project Management may also be considered for this role.
Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK.
