Graduate - Applied Scientist; Materials Science

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

• As an Applied Scientist Graduate at PA, you’ll be able to apply what you have learned to real world challenges – this could be any part of your degree or science you have never seen before.
• Our Applied Science team is made up of biologists, chemists, physicists, materials scientists, food scientists and chemical engineers who are constantly learning about their craft and broadening their knowledge, working alongside colleagues who all have a passion for using what they know, every day.
• Joining us as a graduate is a big step. If you want to make use of the specialist skills your degree has given you, we want you to be bold, stay curious and dive into the opportunities we have to offer.

We can’t tell you everything we are doing now – there’s not enough space! Some of the core capabilities our graduate scientists support is:

• Making Science Real

We help our clients understand, contextualise and mature science from a blank sheet of paper to real life products and capabilities. We do this by understanding what the problem is that they are really trying to solve and we how we can sue the whole palette of techniques available within science to do this. Our breadth spans the creation of new kinds of , showing quantum computes can help make , overcoming challenges in , to working with exciting start-ups to , which is set to revolutionise the healthcare industry.

• Enabling sustainability

The world needs products and processes that are more sustainable and make more efficient use of resources. We develop novel as replacements for single use plastics, novel to help us make more ; we support public sector, start-ups and the world’s largest corporates in understanding and achieving their sustainability ambitions.

• Creating new medical devices and therapies

We develop s and the manufacturing processes that help save lives. We supported the UK’s Ventilator challenge – massively scaling the during the pandemic – everyone who needed a ventilator got one, and made use of our chemistry and materials science base to create a new way to – saving time, energy and resources in developing these lifesaving technologies.

• Application form
• Online Assessments
• Technical assessment
• Pre Screen Telephone Interview

Final Stage Assessments:

• In Person
  - Assessment Centre with Technical assessments

• Qualification: Completed or Studying towards an undergraduate degree in Materials Sciences (including but not limited to Natural Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical & Materials Engineering…