Graduate Opportunities in Engineering Management, FirstGroup PLC

Do you want a career that offers you great potential for development and advancement, interesting and varied work and the chance to make a contribution in a fast growing, dynamic sector?

First Group

FirstGroup plc is now the world’s leading transport company with revenues of over £5 billion a year. We employ over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and North America and transport more than 2.5 billion passengers a year.

We are Britain’s largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local bus services. A fleet of nearly 9,000 buses carries 3 million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities.

We are also the UK’s largest rail operator carrying almost 260 million passengers per annum.

First Group Graduate Programme

First UK Bus and UK Rail take great care in ensuring your development is a mixture of on and off job development supported by a comprehensive and on going mentoring and coaching process.

Your comprehensive on and off-the-job training, your postgraduate or professional qualification and your programme of continuous development as a Management Trainee will all be fully funded by the company.

We are looking for 7 – 10 new Engineering Management graduates for 2010 across both Bus and Rail divisions.

All posts are based in the UK for the duration of the training period. Graduate placements will vary in length from 6 months to 1 year with a particular Bus or Train Operating company this requires the graduate to be flexible and be able to relocate within the UK.

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