Written by Annie

In an industry still dominated by men, career satisfaction and rewarding salaries are helping women push for a change. Women are successfully breaking into the sector however they still only make up for 12.3% of all engineers in the UK.

Women are generally underrepresented in STEM industries and the engineering sector is working hard to recruit more female engineers and address gender imbalance. There are fantastic initiatives to highlight the range of careers available in this sector and inspire more young women into these roles and these are some of them;

• WISE CAMPAIGN – encourages women and girls to value and pursue a career in science, technology and engineering related paths
• TOP 50 WOMEN IN ENGINEERING – aims to raise awareness of the skills short ages faced in the industry and the huge discrepancy between men vs women currently in engineering professions.

Campaigns like these have an impact and the UK is on track to achieve a million women working in STEM roles by 2020.

Some of the engineering graduate roles available;

• Engineering Graduate Scheme – Birmingham – Arriva UK Trains
• Engineering Graduate – Rugby – Hermes
• Graduate Analyst Programmer – Dorset Software Services
• Engineering Graduate Programme – London – Sky
• Process Engineer – Proctor& Gamble
• Graduate Automotive Engineers – Essex- Contech’s Consulting LTD

The best place to look for engineering roles across the sector is Gradcracker.com

As they specialise in STEM graduate schemes/jobs

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