Career development
Whether you're an experienced hire or a new graduate, we have schemes in place to support your career development and can find the best career path for you.
Experienced hires
Working with us will allow you to thrive in a multi-disciplinary team of like-minded people and provide you with the opportunity to be involved in constant innovation and the development of next generation products and disruptive technologies.
Our modern campus-style headquarters at Harston Mill is less than six miles from the historic city center of Cambridge with good bus, rail and road links. Our US headquarters are in downtown Boston, MA.
Career paths
At the beginning of an individual's career, the role will involve technical, managerial and commercial elements allowing individuals to develop a good set of core skills and to get a feel for what works and which aspects of the role they want to develop further going forward.
At the Senior Consultant career stage, a consultant continues to build on core skills but is able to specialize. Choose to be a technical, management or commercial expert. Each of these 3 specialist threads will be supported and developed within the business. Defining outline specialist competences and responsibilities allows development of expertise which is used to enhance the work we do and develops our market presence.
As a Frontier Smart Technologies employee, you will work with an international peer group of talented people. It's an experience you won't find anywhere else. We have some of the brightest innovators working together in an environment with few internal barriers. This enables us to create bespoke project teams that deliver real commercial benefit for our clients.
If you join Frontier Smart Technologies, you'll be part of a unique and diverse team, bringing new insights to technical challenges and stimulating innovation. At any one time, there will be over 100 different projects going on around you. Employees are constantly at the beginning of something new, yet in the security of an established environment.
Beyond the project diversity, multidisciplinary teams and being involved from the spark of innovation through to the delivery of a project, we offer excellent benefits, career development and global travel opportunities for both graduates and experienced engineers, scientists, technologists and business developers.
Our employees are our greatest asset so we are committed to career development and making a focused effort to offer bespoke training and mentoring to allow each individual to thrive within their work environment and realize personal potential. We structure training to ensure that there are no skills or knowledge gaps within the organization.
Beyond formal training, employees also lead informal lunchtime sessions on a regular basis to enable knowledge and skills transfer amongst our teams.
Professional development
Our employees are our greatest asset so we are committed to career development making a focused effort to offer bespoke training and mentoring to allow each individual to thrive within their environment and realize personal potential. As part of our training program, we also use the Executive Education program at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Beyond formal training employees also lead informal lunchtime sessions on a regular basis to enable knowledge and skills transfer amongst our teams.
Graduates
At Frontier Smart Technologies we recognize the value of recruiting bright, exciting graduates and will work to help you develop the personal and technical skills you need to succeed at Frontier Smart Technologies and ensure you have the best start to your career.
We offer a range of graduate roles such as physicists, mechanical engineers, electronic/software engineers, scientists, and analysts. You will have the opportunity to work alongside experienced consultants and technical experts in the company who will assist your learning and development.
Within your first year at Frontier Smart Technologies, we expect you will gain a rounded view of the business and exposure to all of our key service offerings, and we encourage you to regularly gain feedback from team members, project managers, and peers to help with your continued development. We also expect you to be proactive and work closely with your manager to identify and plan areas of development, helping you to fulfill your potential.
So what can we offer you?
- The chance to see ideas developed from conception through complex designs to manufacture and eventual sale
- The opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary teams alongside experienced technical experts
- Involvement in the development of next generation products and disruptive technologies with international impact
- The chance to attend client meetings and undertake technical work to gain commercial understanding
- Support to pursue technical, commercial and project management career paths
- Global travel opportunities
- Six monthly career and salary review
Interested? Find out more in our latest careers brochure below.
Would you like to join the team?
We're always interested in receiving speculative applications. Submit your CV and cover letter to [email protected].