Industrial Design Graduate Scheme
Qualities Needed
The Opportunity - Industrial Design Graduate Scheme
Start Date - September 2025 for 18 months
Starting Salary- £30,000
Minimum Entry Criteria – You’ll need to be near to, or have completed, an appropriate bachelor’s or master’s degree such as Automotive, Industrial, Product Design, Interaction or Digital Design and must be on track to achieve a 2:1 or higher
As part of your application, please send your portfolio to recruitment@jcb.com
What does the Industrial Design Graduate Scheme involve day-to-day?
We’re looking for ambitious designers to shape our next generation and future machines. We’re in an era where exciting technologies are changing the way our machines are used. We need the most talented designers to define how our machines look and how our customers interact with them. You’ll join a passionate team working together to create brilliant customer experiences.
We’ll provide knowledge and real work experience to maximise your potential with the opportunity to influence and inform future product direction. You’ll complete your scheme as part of our busy Industrial Design team working alongside experienced colleagues and previous Graduates.
- We’ll be shortlisting and sending out links to our online assessments in December 2024/ January 2025.
- Through December 2024 to February 2025, if you've been shortlisted following your online assessment you will be sent an invite to one of our in-person Assessment Centres.
- In-person Assessment Centres will take place from January to April 2025.
- We aim to call all candidates whether successful or unsuccessful a few weeks after the Assessment Centre has taken place.
- All of our apprentices and graduates will start their exciting journeys with a full induction week in September 2025!
What’s in it for you?
This is your chance to join a company that’s not only picking up awards for its Early Careers schemes but also opens up opportunities for the long term. On a JCB Early Careers Scheme as a standard you’ll get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday, and access to our company pension. Not only that, but you’ll also benefit from access to our onsite gym, in-house doctor, dentist and visiting optician. There’s also a JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts at many high street fashion and food retailers. And if you feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.
Building a Brighter Future
We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our Resourcing team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.