🌍Global Graduate Leadership Development Programme
Shape the Future. Make an Impact.
Are you driven, curious and ready to kick-start your career in a global organisation? Our two-year rotational programme is designed to accelerate your development, providing hands-on experience across multiple business areas and prepare you for a rewarding long-term career within Spirax Group.
During each placement, you'll be immersed in real-life roles, working on meaningful projects that create value for our customers and support sustainable solutions. With opportunities across sales engineering, manufacturing, production management, project management, supply chain, operations, and other commercial areas, you'll gain broad business exposure while building the foundations for a successful career at Spirax Group. As a customer-obsessed business, we're looking for graduates who are curious, collaborative, commercially aware, and motivated to solve problems and make a real impact.
We’re seeking ambitious graduates with a minimum 2:2 honours degree (or equivalent) in a STEM or business-related discipline, with full eligibility to work permanently in the UK without visa sponsorship now or in the future. You will be eager to grow and learn. You’ll be supported by a strong network of mentors, peers, and leaders, all committed to your success.
🚀 Fast-tracked development opportunities and structured training
🧠 Exposure to cutting-edge commercial, technical, and manufacturing projects
🤝 A collaborative culture, focused on customer-centric solutions
🎯 Opportunities to contribute to business performance and real-world outcomes
🌐 Experience working with colleagues across different teams, functions, and regions
In return, you’ll receive a seriously competitive salary, plus a bonus to help you get started. Company benefits are country-specific but are all highly competitive.
We’re proud of our culture and the inclusive environment we’ve built. If you’re passionate about learning, pushing boundaries and finding solutions, you’ll thrive here.
Development is a key part of the programme, and you’ll have access to extensive learning opportunities including external training, internal development sessions and dedicated learning events where graduates will fly to the UK to learn, collaborate and build their networks.
The programme is designed to provide a strong foundation for future opportunities within the business, in areas such as External Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Operations, and other key business functions.
Assessment centres will be held in late November 2026.
This programme will start in September 2027 and be based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Successful applicants will be required to relocate to Cheltenham for the duration of their first placement. We may close early depending on the number of applications, therefore we encourage early applications.
Spirax Group is the new name for Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
We are a global thermal energy and fluid technology solutions Group, positioned to play a critical role in enabling the industrial transition to net zero, in support of our Purpose, to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.
Our solutions improve the operating efficiency and safety of the critical industrial processes that sit behind the production of consumables used every day. Our recently launched new-to-world decarbonisation* solutions use proprietary technologies to electrify boilers, for the raising of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical industrial process heating applications.
Our Group comprises three world-leading Businesses:
Steam Thermal Solutions helps customers control and manage steam within their mission critical industrial applications, helping to put food safely on the world’s tables and keep our hospitals running.
Steam Thermal Solutions includes:
Spirax Sarco
Gestra
Electric Thermal Solutions has proprietary technologies that deliver electrification solutions at scale in industrial settings. We also deliver freeze protection and defrost solutions critical to aviation and space industries and ensure thermal uniformity in semiconductor chip manufacturing to power the critical electronic systems we rely on.
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is engineering vital fluid technology solutions that optimise the efficient use of resources and support advancements in global health, such as lifesaving vaccines and gene therapies.
Spirax Group is a FTSE 100 Company, headquartered in Cheltenham (UK). We have 37 strategically located manufacturing plants around the world, with 10,000 colleagues, operating in 66 countries and serving 110,000 customers globally.
* Eliminates Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions when connected to a green electricity source.
