Overview
Title: Chemical Graduate Engineer
Salary range: £33,000 per annum plus £2,000 Joining Bonus
Location: Bristol, Burton and Leatherhead
Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home.
Closing date: 24th October 2025
Frazer-Nash are a leading engineering, systems, and technology consultancy. Through our meaningful innovations and insights delivered into projects, our experts help organisations make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable.
In a nutshell, engineering consultancy is all about providing advice to positively impact our clients\' projects and businesses and the wider world around us.
With the transition to net zero and the drive towards a more sustainable and more equitable society, the world is facing many challenges. Working with our clients, we are finding engineering and technology solutions, and getting a kick out of it as we do!
As a graduate, you will be part of a strong and supportive engineering community to help you deliver impact, learn, and excel. This community includes your graduate peers and those in the first few years of their careers through to internationally recognised experts with many decades of experience. Given the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of our work you will be supporting not just your immediate teams, but also in a range of other fields – whether it\'s engineering, digital or human sciences.
The Role
This is a Chemical Graduate Engineer role within our Engineering stream at Frazer-Nash. As a graduate you could be joining one of the following discipline areas:
* Fluids and Thermal Engineering
* Process Engineering and Safety
* Nuclear Engineering and Technology
* Design and Concept Engineering
These areas support our Defence, Energy and Transport & Industry client sectors and are geographically based across our range of UK offices.
Within these areas you will be involved in delivering a diverse range of projects to our clients from component level to system level, throughout all aspects of the project lifecycle (from R&D to decommissioning) and in conjunction with other technical disciplines.
Your projects could include:
* Design of process equipment for packaging and storage of nuclear waste;
* Ensuring the safety of novel and experimental devices to produce hydrogen;
* Assessing the environmental dispersion of chemicals or radionuclides in an accident scenario;
* Assessing the integrity of nuclear power station equipment for extended life;
* Prediction of cooling flow effectiveness in an aerospace jet engine;
The successful individuals will receive training, mentoring and coaching to support their development into becoming well-rounded consultants and will be supported to achieve professional accreditations including chartership with one of our five partnered institutions (IMechE, RAeS, IET, RINA & IoP).
What we are looking for
We are looking for ambitious, intelligent, organised and inquisitive individuals who can solve challenging problems. You will need to have:
* A 2:1 Degree or higher (or equivalent/experience) with a related Engineering or relevant physical sciences bias.
* Pre-employment screening and ability to satisfy UK National Security Vetting criteria.
We welcome applicants who can become:
* A problem solver: able to critically question what you see and take ownership for ideas and work.
* A team player: able to work with supervision and with others with different technical backgrounds.
* A self-starter: able to take ownership of tasks and deliver them to create an impact.
* A communicator: able to discuss and convey projects and outcomes with internal stakeholders and clients.
Our recruitment process
1. Step 1: Application - CV submission
2. Step 2: Measure Potential - Arctic Shores task-based assessment with personalised feedback
3. Step 3: Video Interview - Situation-based and technical questions
4. Step 4: Explore day - learn about Frazer-Nash, network with Graduates, interview and presentation/task
5. Step 5: Decision/Feedback - you will receive feedback whether or not an offer is made
What we offer
* The opportunity to join and learn with a driven and supportive team.
* A competitive salary: £33,000 + £2,000 joining bonus
* 25 days holiday + option to buy 5 more days
* A welcoming work culture and hybrid working with flexibility
* Company pension scheme
* Private healthcare membership + wellbeing support
* Bonus scheme linked to company performance
* Mentoring toward professional accreditation
* Paid membership fees to a professional institution
* Early career teams and office socials
* And more
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