Graduate Mechanical Design Engineer

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise. Graduate Mechanical Design Engineer This role will be based in Celtic Lakes. Our new 237,000-square-foot Newport facility provides additional production and customer collaboration spaces, including 25,000 square feet of R&D clean rooms, 35,000 square feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing space and tool demo areas, all designed to support development of semiconductor process technologies across advanced packaging, power devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), radio frequency (RF) and photonics sector technology.

You’ll be joining one of our product design teams covering either our CVD, PVD, or Etch products, providing mechanical solutions from our head office in Newport. This role is part of our 2027 Graduate programme and will start in September 2027. If you are looking to establish a career in a fast-growing, award-winning, global company with a clearly defined career development path this scheme is for you!

Following our extensive onboarding and introduction program, you will join our Graduate Development program which includes Technical Classroom training, Soft-skills training, Team building, corporate responsibility activities and finally placement across all our operations and process teams. It is not required for you to already have the skills and knowledge to perform the role, full on the job training will be provided through our graduate development scheme.

You will then be welcomed into your Team and continue your development supported by your KLA mentor!

• Designing 3D parts/assemblies using Solid Edge CAD
• Creating/detailing 2D draft drawings using Solid Edge CAD
• Creating engineering bills of materials
• Bill of material cost control
• Supplier contact
• Building and testing prototypes
• Leading small projects from concept to implementation
• Collaborating with other teams across the company
• Writing technical reports for patent applications and writing technical papers for publication at conferences, seminars etc.
• Problem solving, trouble shooting and investigating faults on manufacturing process equipment
• Providing regular updates to the engineering and operations teams on progress of project work, where required summarising results in a written report or presentation.
• Establishing both effective customer and team relationships particularly for clear communication of results and ideas

This position will give an opportunity for working some shift patterns to fully utilise our state-of-the‑art manufacturing cleanroom. We will seek to give as much notice as possible where shift work is required. KLA will of course provide shift allowance in line with company policy.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Whilst no experience is necessary, in your application and through assessment you’ll show us you have: A passion for learning and development, continuously seeking for new knowledge and learning opportunities. A logical approach to provide internal customer solutions with a good attention to detail and foresight and ability to collect, filter and analyse data to build solutions for sophisticated technological problems The ability to think creatively of novel but practical solutions to internal customer problems Communication skills…