Graduate engineers

Our graduates follow a two-year structured training programme within the Company. The Graduate programme involves placements of approximately five months’ duration in each of the key Engineering Departments, including: Design, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain Management. The Komatsu UK Graduate Engineer Scheme is a permanent position, and on successful completion of the Scheme will lead to an appointment to an Engineer role within the Company. Successful candidates will have an honours degree at a minimum level of a 2:2 in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics or a related Science subject, along with excellent numerical and IT skills, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

Graduate engineer

Manufacturing roles

Our manufacturing roles are for experienced Paint Sprayers, Mechanical Assemblers, Qualified Welders/Fabricators and CNC operators.

Graduate engineer

Fabrication

The Fabrication department are responsible for the manufacture of the key components of a hydraulic excavator. To support the manufacturing process, we have 15 Welding Robots, 4 large CNC machining centres, tack welding fixtures and welding manipulators.

Fabrication areas include:

Revolving frame – Operators use profiled piece parts to fabricate the main centre beam. This is then fitted with decks to complete the full revolving frame.
Track frame – Operators use profiled piece parts to fabricate the spider in tack weld. The crawlers are then fitted to create a complete track frame.
Boom – Operators use profiled piece parts, along with point, centre boss and foot castings to create the boom. The boom is then completed using manual and robot welding processes.
High Reach Demolition – Operators weld a variety of unique work components which make up our HRD machines.
CNC – CNC operators use large machining centres to carry out various machining operations on the fabricated components, such as boring.

Graduate engineer

Paint

The Paint Department applies protective coatings and finishes to excavator parts and assembled machines, enhancing their appearance, durability, and resistance to corrosion in tough environments. We use an automated paint facility and have an attachment booth for unique customer colours.

Paint areas include:

Fabrication Paint – Fabrication paint uses a monorail system to process the fabricated parts through each area of the paint plant.
Completion Paint – Operators will touch up areas of the machine which may get damaged during the assembly process, apply decals and make sure the quality is correct before shipping.
Assembly line Paint – Operators manually access areas of the machine which are difficult to paint on a completed excavator.
Non-Standard Paint - Operators will paint our high reach demolition and large class machines, as well as complete any customer colour requests or non-standard paint repairs.

Graduate engineer

Assembley

The Assembly department are responsible for assembling all the different components that make up our excavators, including the revolving frame, track frame and work equipment.

Assembly areas include:

Main line – Main line assembly fits the sub assembled parts to the revolving and track frames, as they move down the assembly line.
Sub Assembly – Creating the components needed ready for them to be fitted to the main machine. Sub assembly stations include valve block, DEF tanks and boom cylinders.
Completion Line – Put the finishing touches to the machine, including customer spec work.
Rework – Rework standard machines to fit our customer specifications.
Large Class/Working Gear – Assembly our large class and working gear models, including High Reach Demolition machines.
Quality Assurance – Maintain the high quality of our machines, before they reach our customers.