Siemens, a leading digital technology company, is ensuring young and aspiring engineers and business students get a head start in their careers, after a major recruitment drive saw the company take on 84 new graduates, apprentices, and interns, bolstering its existing 8,600-strong workforce spread throughout the UK.
Moreover, half of the new hires are female, a fact that Siemens says underlines the company’s Siemens’ commitment to its target of 50/50 gender parity in early careers recruitment by 2025 as part of its drive to build ‘an innovative and diverse culture’.
The company, a ‘committed employer of entry-level talent in the UK with 483 apprentices, graduates, and interns’, is halfway through a focused recruitment campaign that started in August 2022 and runs to April 2023. So far, the campaign has attracted almost 7,700 applications for positions in various Siemens divisions. Of the 84 so far recruited, Siemens Digital Industries has taken on 32 new interns, graduates and apprentices beginning their career in manufacturing.
Orla Davin, 22, a former pupil of the Barlow RC High and Xaverian College in Manchester, is embarking on sales engineer degree. She said: “I was looking at different apprenticeships, as I prefer a hands-on way of learning, so four days in the office and one at university highly appealed to me.
“When I saw this role, not only did it give me an opportunity to work in one of the most globally successful companies, but the apprenticeship scheme also gives you experience in each department in Digital Industries over the four years, so you can decide where you want to work and what you enjoy best!”
Brian Holliday, managing director of Siemens Digital Industries UK and Ireland, said: “The manufacturing sector in the UK is vibrant and varied. It offers great careers in a range of technical and operational roles and now employs 2.7 million people, putting it ahead of the construction, transport, and public sectors. Manufacturing has shown its metal through the pandemic, becoming even more resilient while developing new skills and approaches that will help it survive and thrive.”
Johnny Mathieson, Siemens’s early career professionals manager, added: “Siemens’ apprenticeships have gained in popularity with the introduction of T Level, thereby opening the apprenticeships to many more students who want to pursue a career in the engineering industry. We make the whole on-boarding process exciting and interesting for them so that they know they are in the right place and it’s a win-win for both.”