Graduate Design Engineer – One-Year Paid Training Programme
A4 Plus
Are you a Graduate Design Engineer looking to accelerate your career through a unique opportunity for faster progression?
A4 Plus is offering a one-year paid Graduate Design Engineer training programme, designed to rapidly develop your technical capability, professional skills, and commercial awareness within a consultancy environment.
Why join A4 Plus?
Our graduate programme provides significantly broader exposure than a typical in-house role, allowing you to gain experience across multiple projects, industries, and technologies within a short period of time.
What’s in it for you?
Breadth of exposure
Work on a wide range of client projects across different sectors and technologies. You will gain experience across multiple product types, engineering challenges, and stages of development.
Accelerated technical development
Early exposure to multiple CAD systems, simulation tools, prototyping methods, and testing processes, helping you build a strong and versatile engineering skillset.
Process-driven environment
Develop good engineering habits through structured design controls, documentation standards, project governance, and quality management systems.
Client-facing experience
Work directly with clients from an early stage, developing communication, requirements capture, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Structured mentorship
Learn from experienced engineers through guided mentoring, ongoing feedback, and professional development support.
Commercial awareness
Gain exposure to real-world constraints, including cost, manufacturability, regulatory requirements, and client business cases.
Who should apply?
This programme is ideal for motivated graduate engineers who are keen to learn quickly, take responsibility, and build a strong foundation for rapid career progression. You must be based within a commutable distance of A4 Plus (March, Cambridgeshire). No relocation package available. No applications will be accepted from outside of the UK