Spirax Group plc |

Spirax Group is made up of three world-leading Businesses: our Steam Thermal Solutions Business, Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions Business And Electric Thermal Solutions Business. We have over 10,000 colleagues across 144 operating units in over 66 countries worldwide. We design and manufacture our own products and sell them to over 110,000 customers globally.  

Our expertise, solutions, and services are behind the countless industrial processes essential to our daily lives. 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!

We aim to be a caring, respectful and authentic organisation that aligns behind our shared Purpose in support of creating value for all our stakeholders.  

For colleagues, that means all the ways in which we help you grow and develop in your role, but more importantly it's about the way we show up for you, helping you through life's key moments at work and at home.  

And it's about how we help you to show up in service of your stakeholders, be it customers, suppliers, the environment, our local communities or our shareholders.   

Across Spirax Group, we endeavour to offer a consistently exceptional colleague experience, enabled through our Values of Safety, Collaboration, Customer Focus, Excellence, Respect & Integrity as well as our Purpose, our business model and Inclusion Commitments.

You will receive a competitive salary, 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. 

Our ‘Everyone is Included’ Commitments and Colleague Promises help us to build inclusive and equitable workplaces. As an organisation, amongst other things, we offer 16 weeks paid parental leave, paid wellbeing and volunteering days each year and are proud of the fact that we offer a safe working environment for all.   

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 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 then be invited to join us at the final stage – an in person assessment centre at our UK manufacturing site in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 

The day long assessment centre consists of a pre-prepared presentation, individual interview and a group task which will take place at the end of November. We will aim to make a final decision and offer within the next few weeks ready for an October 2026 start date. 

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 our assessment centres in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Our assessment centre will consist of a short individual presentation to a small panel of Spirax Group colleagues, a fun, group activity and a "mini-interview".

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.

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.

Our Graduates benefit from undertaking three placements within Sales, Manufacturing and Business (in an area of their choice). By immersing themselves in ‘real life’ job roles and learning through collaboration and networking across global teams and functions, the scope for development is endless! Throughout the two year programme, they will also benefit from a number of internal and external training courses as well as a week long Graduate Development conference (which is much more exciting than it sounds!!) Our graduates are supported by a wide network of managers, senior mentors, peers and our dedicated Early Careers team. This wealth of support and development provides the perfect stepping stone to enter their first permanent role upon finishing the programme, and progressing into a leader of the future. 

Through real, on the job training opportunities our Year in Industry Placement Students (YINIs) will get a year’s 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