Design Engineer Advanced Apprentice (Graduate)

Location: Worcester, England, gb Employment Type: {'id': 'permanent', 'label': 'Full-time'}

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

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to join our Research and Development team as a Graduate Design Engineer!

This is a chance of joining an industry leading company as a Graduate Design Engineer in R&D, working for a department producing new generations of sustainable heating appliance. Designer will work in experienced team that have ownership over projects and the responsibility taking designs from concept to market, whilst being supported with technical training opportunities

In this role, you will be responsible for

CAD modelling & technical drawings

Development of designs through engineering tools like Failure Mode Effect Analysis and Design for Manufacture & Assembly

Working closely with production plant in Clay Cross and Purchasing to maintain production of series appliances.

Interpreting customer and legal requirements into a solid design solution

Planning of workload and work packages

Engineering change management

Design for environment material compliance

Liaising between sites and departments

Interested? Upload your CV today!

Qualifications

Right To Work: please ensure you have valid Right To Work in the UK status for the duration of the contract term. This is a 2-year fixed term role.

Our ideal candidate must have

Degree, Higher National Diploma in Engineering or equivalent practical experience

Experience with CAD and producing technical drawings

Proactive individual, who wishes to learn and expand their skill set

Good team player and capable of running own projects

Proven problem solver and critical thinker

Enjoys understanding how things work and taking ideas from start to finish

Our ideal candidate should have

UK driving licence

NX Siemens experience advantageous

Additional Information

Deadline for Applications: 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.

Expected Start Date:01/12/2026

Please note that this date is advisory and can be flexible within reason.

Contract Duration: 2 years

Working Hours

39 hours per week – standard working pattern of 08:00 – 17:00 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 – 16:00 Friday with a 1-hour lunch break

Working with us comes with the following benefits

25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays (pro-rata for your first year)

Eligibility for our Company Performance Bonus

Enhanced pension contributions

Access to the Perkbox and My Benefits platforms giving access to discounts, group income protection and death in service benefits

Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP

Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group

Subsidised on-site café and canteen

Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme.

Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events

Volunteering days

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!

We welcome applications from a range of candidates but please note that to apply for this position you must have the right to live and work in the UK from the start date of employment and for the duration of your employment.