Early Careers

Get ahead with your career

Our Early Careers community get really excited about their career prospects at Edwards. The projects are leading-edge and involved, the experience stimulating and the rewards are first-class. But best of all, there's a real sense that you're being listened to. You have a voice from the moment you step through our doors. Your personal development matters. After all, in the long-run, it's as good for us as it is for you.

We offer numerous opportunities across our global business. You just need to decide what's the right starting point for you!

Degree Apprenticeships

Here are Edwards we believe in investing in our future, and our future is you.

Achieve your career aspirations without the financial burden. Upon completion your apprenticeship will gain a degree in your specialist field as well as valuable hands-on work experience. In addition, you will earn a salary and gain a nationally recognised qualification whilst also working towards professional industry accreditation.

Your personal development matters.

Through the delivery of workshops, seminars and practical lab-based activity, as well as rotational placements in the workplace alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, you will develop your skills as a capable and confident engineering professional.

We offer Degree Apprenticeships in various subjects and sites within the UK including but not limited to;

  • Manufacturing Engineering 
  • Electronic/Electrical Engineering 
  • Digital & Technology Solutions – Software Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Accountancy Professional

Year in Industry Placements

If you’re passionate about change and want to get a head start in your career, then an internship at Edwards could be for you. We’re looking for outstanding students, with questions that go beyond textbooks.

Think this is you? Join us.

Our Year in Industry programme offers students who are still at University the opportunity to experience time in a global company. You could be working in our labs developing new concepts and innovations for our customers or researching into new breakthrough technologies for our vacuum solutions.

It’s an amazing insight into life inside an organisation that is growing and developing at an incredible rate. Typically, the programme lasts for 12 months as a paid placement. 

Exploring Edwards' graduate schemes
Jada, Early Careers Manager at Edwards, talks about the company's graduate schemes – from the disciplines they recruit from, to the placements you might undertake.
To watch the full Gradcracker/Edwards webinar, click here.

Graduates

We want to grow our graduates as experts, so we tailor our programmes around developing your core expertise within a variety of roles.

We offer different graduate programmes to meet the needs of different parts of our business. Our opportunities cover expertise fields in Engineering, Research & Development, Software Engineering, Business IT, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Procurement.

What does this mean for you? You will develop valuable skills and experience. You could be developing new concepts for our products or looking at new ways to market our products in new territories or with new customers.

You’ll have access to a mentor who is an experienced leader or expert in the business guiding you and your development programme. This will open you up to new ways of thinking and working. Click here to find out more and apply. 

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