[Charlie Apps]

I
believe there are good graduate schemes in many Med Tech businesses, I’ve no
sense of how competitive these are. I suspect that Med Tech may be a little behind
other industries that have historically offered sponsorships through degree
courses but this is based on my own, very out of date experience. I’d be
interested in others experience.

[Tim Robertson]

Thanks @Charlie_A l. Are you aware of specifically Field Engineering graduate roles or only general graduate entry roles where a grad might try out a range of job roles over their graduate entry scheme?

[Charlie Apps]

I’m not aware of any specific Field Engineer graduate schemes only more general ones where there may be a field opportunity @Tim.

[Guy Eid]

Some companies are open to hiring new grads, depending on the required level of knowledge and skills. One opportunity can be for a new hire to be properly trained then travel a region or even nationally to focus on performing Preventive Maintenance on equipment, certainly after having shadowed and practiced with more senior colleagues. That helps keeping the PM schedules on time as it is a requirements.

Fresh grads are usually young and more open to travel and seeing the world; it is a win-win situation. Later, the Field Engineer learns more equipment and is readier to assume the responsibility of an assigned territory based on the company needs.

[Rob Peters]

In my experience it depends on the sector the organization is operating in. Historically, here in the US, the OEMs have offered apprenticeship programs to graduates of tech schools and recently separated military members with electronics training. The smaller third party companies working on the same equipment do have some entry level programs. Regardless of what organization it’s with, these programs typically are looking for young (career) candidates and require quite a bit of time and sometimes travel in order to complete their respective program.