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Graduate direct entry route

Start your career as a core team member in one business area while developing your personal skills and career path.

Ready to get going right away? Join one of our business units directly to gain immediate exposure to some of the most passionate and highly skilled teams in the industry. As a direct entry graduate, you will remain within one business area as a core member of the team from day one, working on real customer challenges to develop deep expertise and technical ability in your chosen field.

With outstanding training and development, we'll help you get your career off to a flying start and support you in taking it further along one of our many career pathways. With opportunities across the globe, we’re confident you’ll find a place to grow.

Join one of our Graduate Schemes

Rotate around the business

LEAD: JM’s global graduate programme

Start your career rotating many business areas on a dedicated and fast track path to leadership. With ongoing development and 1-2-1 support you can choose your direction across each rotation and build a unique foundation to set you up for the future. 

Ambitious for more? We recruit for geographically mobile and talented graduates to join our science, commercial and operations teams every year. 

UK Process Engineering Development Programme (PEDP)

Enter directly into our Catalyst Technologies business where you will develop and enhance your chemical engineering skills and work on real tasks where your input is required and valued. You could:

  • Design our world-scale licensed technologies for clients based across the globe.
  • Develop new technologies and improve established technologies to remain competitive.
  • Support international clients at their operating sites via construction reviews, catalyst loading, commissioning, and plant troubleshooting. 
  • Provide technical expertise in the development of JM catalysts and support our clients in their application and operation. 
  • Take part in fundamental research by working with development scientists using state-of-the-art laboratories, rigs, and mini plants. 
  • Work on exciting real-world projects towards Chartership.

UK Finance Graduate Programme

Our Finance Graduate Programme offers those with a degree or equivalent in a finance related field the chance to gain an accounting qualification and an early career advantage. This three-year programme includes rotations that will see you gain highly transferable skills and competencies in transactional, operational and specialist finance. Your rotations will take place across our London head office, and our research, manufacturing and service hubs in Royston and Sonning.

We will also sponsor your academic qualification (either CIMA or ACCA), and we offer a highly competitive salary and bonus scheme coupled with market-leading benefits. The programme is robust and challenging, but we believe strongly in mentoring and coaching partnerships and you will receive plenty of support and career advice along the way. No two career paths are the same; as part of this programme, you will forge a journey with JM that reflects your strengths, interests, and passion.

Graduate Engineering Programme (GEP)

Join a scheme designed to give you the experience and knowledge to become chartered in the future, whatever your engineering degree. The programme is multidisciplinary and open to chemical, mechanical, electrical, automation, control engineers and other related degrees.

The programme runs over two years with three assignments across operations, engineering and capital projects. At least one assignment will take place on a manufacturing site to build real world engineering understanding. 

Potential for international assignments or work supporting projects outside the UK. 

Graduates will be assigned a mentor from the relevant engineering discipline to support gaining the competencies required for later chartership. 

We recruit for these roles all year round.

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