At Gripple Ltd, a B Corp™-certified company and MX Awards Manufacturer of the Year 2022, we design, manufacture, and sell innovative, patented products for the construction, agriculture, solar and infrastructure markets.
We are now recruiting the next generation of product design/design engineering talent to take up an undergraduate placement within our Innovation Centre. Starting in September 2024, you will gain practical experience on real-life projects on this 12-month placement. With the support and guidance of some of our highly experienced design engineers, you will be taught valuable skills and given both responsibility and ownership of your role.
With several successful undergraduate placements having returned to Gripple after graduation in the past, this is the perfect stepping stone to a successful career.
What is the role?
The Innovation Centre at our Don Road site in Sheffield is a great place to experience what professional product design and design engineering is about, including the challenges and the rewards of projects and how they evolve from concept through to production. Previously successful students have been confident and creative, but with a solid understanding of engineering reality. Reporting to a senior design engineer, you will work alongside our Sheffield-based team and the role will include the following:•Working as part of a new product development team to bring new products to market
Monday Friday 8.30am-5.00pm.
The Company operates a flexible working policy, with office hours of 7.00am-7.00pm Monday-Friday.
What you will need
As an employee-owned company, our people are front and centre. You can therefore expect to see:
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued with a sense of belonging. If there are any adjustments that would help your experience with Gripple, please let us know when you apply.
Whilst not mandatory, your completion of the applicant ethnic monitoring form will help us monitor and encourage equality and diversity. The information you provide will be anonymous and kept both confidential and separate to your application.
A polite note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept applicants from recruitment agencies. If we do need support, we will be in touch!
Do you want to own it like we do - your job, your career, your own part of our business? Developing new, innovative products is the key to our success, but people are our most valuable asset.
Growing together
We may have grown as a business, but our shared values remain the same. We expect our people to be passionate, to be team players, to be honest and willing and able to challenge convention.
As a 100% employee-owned company, our employees care about the business, have a vested interest in it and play a significant part in its growth. It isn’t always for the faint-hearted, but the reward is a share in our success and a say in how we get there.
Working at Gripple is not just about getting the job done, it is about contributing to its present and working towards its future. In 50 years’ time, we may not just be making Gripple fasteners – the possibilities are endless. For us, that is a very exciting prospect!
Want to be part of our future?
As our business has grown and changed over recent years, so have our opportunities. From customer-facing sales and support roles, to roles in engineering and product design, operations and marketing, if you have what it takes, the career choices and development opportunities open to you are as exciting and varied as the products we design, produce and sell.
A job at Gripple is never just that, you will become an owner of the business, with a say in how we do things.
The Gripple Spirit
At Gripple we believe it is our values and our unique culture, in other words, the ‘Gripple Spirit’, which sets us apart and the number one reason why we are able to attract and retain the best people into our business.
We have created, and we foster that culture by recruiting people who share our values, committed and hard-working people with vision and passion, and we make sure we look after those people, our greatest asset.
Very good benefits package and deal
Lots of benefits, great company
They have a great culture, bar, in-house chefs, free gym membership, shares and lots of opportunities to develop and travel.