IET Accredited Professional Development

Inevitably each person will have had different academic training and work experience prior to joining STFC Technology. To take account of these factors, each young engineer is assigned a mentor to provide support and guidance, and is given a personal training programme which is specifically tailored to their needs.

The IET professional development scheme is a continuous process, but can be split into a number of periods:

• Initial graduate training period of approximately two years, which provides a supervised environment for your development. The scheme progressively increases the graduate engineer's competencies through a mix of project work and formal training.
• Initial Professional Development (IPD), which leads up to the point of application for IET chartered status. This involves the further development in the core competence and commitment areas specified by the IET.
• Continuous Professional Development (CPD), which follows on from achievement of IET chartered engineer status, and will continue throughout your career at STFC. This includes the further development of both managerial and technical skills as necessary.

As a graduate engineer joining STFC Technology you will be employed to do a real job and much of your learning and development will come from the experience of delivering real work. You will also follow a professional development programme and work towards Chartered Engineer status.