RWE Engineering Graduate Scheme

RWE Engineering Graduate Scheme

Location – One of our UK wide locations, (Didcot, Staythorpe, Little Barford, Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn, Pembroke, Markinch, Swindon).

Contract Type – 18 Months fixed term

Working Hours – Full time

Closing Date – 17 January 2025 or on receipt of sufficient applications

About the role

The RWE Engineering Graduate scheme provides the perfect blend of training and competency development; including the technical, practical and business skills needed to be an engineer for today and tomorrow.

Engineers are essential to our power generation business. During the scheme you will shape your career through delivering on key engineering projects across a variety of areas such as:

• Engineering & Outage
• Operations & Maintenance 
• Asset Management
• Business Development

Spread over eighteen months your development  will include specialist technical and practical skills,  behavioural, and health & safety training courses, with competency developing placements; supported by our engineering experts and training specialists.  During the scheme you will have the opportunity to complete various placements at some of our locations and supporting teams.

Our scheme offers a structured combination of academic learning, technical training and practical skills development, supported by experienced engineers, technicians and training specialists. On successful completion of the programme, we look forward to your application for an engineering role within RWE.

Whilst away from your base  location, RWE will provide accommodation, travel and food allowance, ensuring fantastic pastoral support throughout.

Job Requirements and Experience

We would like our Graduates to have an outstanding analytical and problem solving mind set, a desire to learn and develop whilst being a team player.

Academically to be considered for our scheme you are required to have or be predicted to have:

• Engineering degree 2.1 in a engineering area, with a passion for the energy industry

What we will offer you

• An expected starting salary from £40,403+ a £2,000 joining bonus
• A personal retirement savings plan – if you put in 5% we will top up by a further 10% and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary
• Opportunity to learn life skills away from the classroom environment, learning a valuable set of skills to help you become the best version of you these include, team working, problem solving and communication
• All of our team members have opportunities to network across the RWE business be it in the UK, Netherlands, Germany or further afield.
• Opportunity to develop into roles across the RWE power generation business around the world.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• One free professional membership subscription
• Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave and retail savings scheme
• Occupational Health support services for your wellbeing
• Access to our employee assistance programme in times of need
• Up to 2 days volunteering a year

To view a preview of our benefits site ‘YourHub’ and see some of the other benefits we have on offer please visit https://www.edenred.co.uk/campaigns/rwe-yourhub/index.html

Apply with just a few clicks: ad code 88203, application period: 17 January 2025 or on receipt of sufficient applications. Any questions? Lee.clark@Rwe.com

We look forward to meeting you. Of course, you can find us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Xing, too.

Equal Opportunities

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, age or sexual orientation and identity.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Please note:

Candidates will be selected for a face to face interview by a third-party organization (Brodtmann Consulting) for this vacancy. By applying, you are consenting your data submitted in the application process to be shared with them.

The assessment centre will take place on 26 February 2025 and 27 February 2025. 

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.