Spirax Group plc |

Incredible career opportunities for University Placements & STEM/Business Graduates to join our Early Careers Programmes!

Since our foundation in 1888, we’ve become a world-leading global thermal energy and fluid technology solutions Group.

We put solving customers’ problems at the heart of our ‘total solutions’ approach.

Our solutions improve operating efficiency and safety in our customers’ critical industrial processes and our new-to-world decarbonisation solutions will use our proprietary technologies to electrify boilers, for the raising of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical industrial process heating applications.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Our success is shaped by our Values and supported by a strong culture
To deliver our Purpose, colleagues strive to make their difference every day.

We promise our colleagues the opportunity to do meaningful work, creating a sustainable future for everyone - supported by amazing teams and strong relationships across the globe.

Inclusion is embedded in all our Values, empowering each of us to be our best, authentic selves and achieve our full potential.

An inclusive, equitable and wellbeing-focused culture makes us stronger as individuals, as teams and as Spirax Group. It is central to the promises we make to our colleagues and critical to achieving our Purpose.

Colleagues at Spirax Group are part of a leading global business committed to creating a more inclusive and sustainable world. Shared by everyone, everywhere across the Group, our Values guide the way we work and underpin our approach to business every day. By putting inclusion at the heart of everything we do, our culture brings people together for the benefit of their work, lives and communities.

Our Values underpin all that we do and ensure that we support our people, communities and our Businesses in sustainable ways. Our Values are: Safety, Collaboration, Customer Focus, Excellence, Repect & Integrity.

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.

Year in Industry (University Placement Scheme)

Following our quick application process including CV submission and answering a few questions to support us in understanding your interests and what type of placement you are looking for, you will be asked to complete a pre-recorded video interview. We appreciate that these are nobody's favourite thing to do! But it's important for us to get to know you better and to provide you the opportunity to show your individual personality, passion and interests.

If you are successful following your pre-recorded video interview, you will be asked to attend an on-site assessment centre (don't worry.. it's not as scary as it sounds!). We hold two assessment centres, each focussed on different placement types. Depending upon your area of interest, you will be asked to attend one of these assessment centres in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on one of the below dates:

Thursday 28 November 2024

Thursday 05 December 2024

Our assessment centre will consist of a short individual presentation to a small panel of Spirax Group colleagues, a group activity, two "mini-interviews", a guided tour of our largest manufacturing facility.. and then a free lunch to finish the day!

Following the assessment centre, we will update you as soon as possible and ideally will have a decision for you within a week. We don't want you to be left waiting! This way you can expect to know if you are to be offered a placement with us by the second week of December.

Global Graduate Leadership Development Programme

Following the submission of a short application form, your application will be screened and if are eligible to apply for the programme, you will be invited to complete a psychometric assessment. Following this, you will be invited to complete the next stage - video screening. This consists of recording yourself answering 5 questions, with your answer videos lasting one minute in length. If you are successful at this stage, you will be invited to join us at the final stage - an assessment centre. The assessment centre consists of a pre-prepared presentation, individual interview and a group task which will take place in early December.

When all of our colleagues can be themselves and achieve their full potential, we’re better able to create the more efficient, safer and sustainable world that we all aspire to have.

That’s why we’ve put inclusion at the heart of our Group through ‘Everyone is Included’ (our Group Inclusion Plan and Inclusion Commitments), Diversity Goals and more. Inclusion is integral to all of our Group Values too. After all, treating colleagues fairly, ensuring their wellbeing, supporting them to be their authentic selves and helping them with life’s challenges benefits individuals, teams and our Group, as well as our customers, the communities we work in and everyone who depends on us.

We’re making progress, but there’s always more to do. So, we’ll continually evolve our approach, add to it, celebrate success and learn from things that don’t quite go to plan. We’ll share our experiences here on our website and in our Annual Report, and we’ll work with our partners to have an even greater impact together.

We’ve put inclusion at the heart of the Spirax Group because when we have the workplaces and culture where we can all be our authentic selves, where we all understand and value what makes each other unique, and where we all know how best to look after ourselves and each other, everyone benefits.

It means our colleagues have happier, healthier and more productive lives and we’re all better able to achieve our potential - at work and at home. It means we have a bigger, more sustainable impact on the communities we are part of. It means our customers, suppliers and everyone else who depends on what we do, benefits.

In short, it means we’re even better placed to engineer the more sustainable world we all need today and for our collective future.

As part of our colleague benefits, all colleagues from day 1 of employment have access to a variety of inclusion commitments as well as our Private Medical Insurance & Employee Assistance Programme. We also have dedicated Wellbeing Champions across our Cheltenham offices.

Through real, on the job training opportunities our Year in Industry Placement Students (YINIs) will get a year experience working with experts in their chosen field and will gain exposure to life working within a global, FTSE 100 company. Our programme comes with a mentoring scheme to better support personal development and 'YINIs' will have the opportunity to continue their career within Spirax Group through applying for our Global Graduate Leadership Development Programme.

Since 2021, our One Planet: Engineering with Purpose Sustainability Strategy has been embedded in our Business strategies for sustainable growth.
Implemented locally by each of our three Businesses, with central oversight by the Group Director of Sustainability and the wider Group Executive Committee, it establishes Group-wide targets and operating standards, informs our business decisions, helps manage risk and leverage opportunities for growth, while enabling us to deliver sustainable value to all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.

Our One Planet: Engineering with Purpose Sustainability Strategy is our commitment to operating sustainably and our roadmap to building a more sustainable future for people and the planet. Through our six strategic initiatives, we deliver climate and environmental action, increased customer sustainability, resilient supply chains and stronger communities.

Our six strategic initiatives are:

1. Net Zero Greenhouses gases
2. Deliver biodiversity net gain
3. Implement environmental improvements in our own operations
4. Grow sales of products with quantified sustainability benefits
5. Embed sustainability criteria in supply chain management
6. Support the wellbeing of people in our communities