Advanced Apprentice – Graduate Development Engineer

Company Description

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.

From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting-edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.

It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.

As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you.

Come and work #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Job Description

The role offers an exciting insight into product development with the opportunity to work on upcoming technologies within the Domestic heating industry.

The successful graduate will be able to develop their science and engineering skills while maintaining a customer focus within a team of experienced product development specialists, carrying out activities to show compliance with standards and internal guidelines such as performance testing, safety evaluations and product improvements using state-of-the-art test equipment. The successful candidate will also have access to the Bosch training platform with a wide-ranging catalogue of business, personal and technical training courses to supplement the practical, experience-based part of this apprenticeship. On completion of the apprenticeship, the successful applicant will be able to drive safe, efficient and agile product development in a complex, ever-changing environment.

Specific tasks include:

• Learn to interpret requirements, produce test plans and complete test work to achieve the project
• timeline.
• Installation and setup of appliances and test equipment to complete experiments.
• Learn to interpret test and experiment results, draw conclusions and suggest improvements.
• Learn how to document results and write test report.
• Assist with technical support for production, quality and ratio initiatives.
• Ensure test equipment inspected on a regular basis and calibrated in line with agreed schedules.

Qualifications

• Science or Engineering qualification to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Has a keen interest in product development with a drive to optimise and improve designs.
• Has a natural curiosity to understand product performance with an ability to interrogate the root causes behind observed technical behaviours.
• The ideal candidate has practical, hands-on experience installing, repairing and/or modifying mechanical or electrical equipment.
• Has the ability to balance between a highly focused and a flexible/agile approach to small and large tasks of varying levels of difficulty.
• Strong team worker with excellent work ethics and ability to communicate clearly across different hierarchies.
• Be able plan their workload to manage their time effectively.
• Interest and experience in using MATLAB/Simulink would be a bonus.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Occasional national and international business travel may be required.

Additional Information

Deadline for Applications: 18/4/2025 - please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible

Working Hours: 39 hours a week; Mon – Thurs 08.00 - 17.00 and Fri 08.00 - 16.00 with a 1 hour unpaid lunch break

Working with us comes with the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays – additional service days accrued after 5 years
• Eligibility for our Company Performance Bonus (up to £1,500 gross per annum)
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Access to the Perkbox and My Benefits platforms giving access to discounts, healthcare plans, group income protection and death in service benefits
• Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
• Subsidised onsite café and canteen
• Health & well-being support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme and after 2 years’ service you gain eligibility for funding up to £150 per annum to support your personal well-being
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
• Volunteering days
• Cycle to work scheme with discounts on push-bikes, e-bikes and accessories
• Policy to support growing families
• Access to self-service training platform containing over 200 Bosch approved programmes
• Networking opportunities across Bosch UK including a mentoring programme
• And more!