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Graduate Specialist Program - Manufacturing

Birmingham, West Midlands, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-27

Core

A 24-month rotational graduate program for post-Master's engineers to drive manufacturing excellence, cost reduction, and digitalization in hydraulic valve and manifold production.

Role type

Graduate Specialist Program - Manufacturing (Hydraulics)

Builds

Hydraulic cartridge valves, manifolds, and motion control systems for off-highway industries

Domain

Industrial Manufacturing / Hydraulics / Motion Control

Required skills

Lean manufacturing principles, Manufacturing Cost Per Unit analysis, project management, Microsoft Office/IT skills, process assembly and test equipment design, factory layout optimization

Preferred skills

Hydraulics technology knowledge, digitalization and AI project experience, data-driven operational improvement approach

Technologies

SAP, Microsoft Office, AI tools

Responsibilities

Initiate toolsets for data-driven operational improvements, drive Manufacturing Excellence strategy, participate in efficiency improvement projects, design and develop lean manufacturing cells, work with Manufacturing Services to update factory layouts, rotate through specialist departments (MFE, MFO, BPS, MFC, BDO)

Seniority

Graduate, rotational IC

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