Work Experience - July 2027
Join Spirax Group for your Work Experience week!
Are you eager to explore the world of work and gain a hands-on experience of what it might be like to work within your chosen field? Our Work Experience programme is now open for applications to join us for 1-week in July.
Why Join Us?
When will it be?
Please indicate on your application form which week you would like to apply for.
How to Apply?
Simply complete our online application and provide as much information as you can. We aim to support as many Work Experience placements as possible but only 20 places will be available across the two weeks. The process for this will be to match you as closely as possible to our available placements.
If you are successful in gaining a placement, it will be based at one of our two sites within Cheltenham, Gloucestershire:
What will the Placement consist of?
At the start of the week (Monday morning), you will receive a Health & Safety induction and tour of our manufacturing and technology site at Runnings Road.
Following your induction, depending on your chosen area of interest, you will be placed with a Spirax colleague or team who will support you and work with you closely for the first four days of your placement.
On the final day (Friday) you will come together with your Work Experience peers for some group activities at our Runnings Road site. This will be a half day so you will be ready to return home at midday after an enjoyable week with us!
When will I know if I’ve been successful?
The application process will close on Monday 2nd November.
We aim to confirm with successful applicants as soon as possible before the end of November 2026. We will also let you know if you have not been successful, and this will only be if we do not have any available placements which align with your goals and interests.
If you are successful, please share with us any requirements from your School, College or Sixth Form so we can make sure any formalities and forms are completed in advance of you joining us in July.
The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
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.
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, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, 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. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.
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.
