Science and Technology Facilities Council

Careers at the Leading Edge

Graduate Recruitment

Holidays and pay
5 weeks holiday, competitive salary, excellent pension...

Holidays - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory

  • When you start with us you will get 25 days holidays a year
  • This is in addition to bank holidays and a couple of days works holidays - 10.5 in total
  • So you will actually have a total of 7 weeks holiday!
  • If you stay with us for 5 years your holiday allowance rises to 30 days
Pay and promotion
  • Competitive salary to start
  • If you successfully complete the accredited training scheme for graduate engineers you will normally be put forward for promotion within two years. Exceptional graduates can achieve this promotion with 12 months
  • Also see How can my career progress?

Pension

  • From your first day you will be entitled to join our index-linked career average pension scheme for a contribution of just 3.5 % of your salary

Housing

  • Many of our graduates share accommodation
  • The following web sites give information about the areas and details of accommodation: