For 10 years now, the Plymouth Manufacturers Group (the ‘PMG’) has held annual early careers jobs fairs in Plymouth. From 2018, Building Plymouth joined to co-host the event and together the two organisations have enabled hundreds of young people to meet top employers offering local apprenticeships, graduate roles and industry placements in Manufacturing & Engineering, Construction & the Built Environment.
Our most recent Early Careers Fair took place in mid February 2025.
Young people, school students, family, guardians, friends, career changers were all made welcome and helped to discover their next steps and opportunities available to them.
Amazing Manufacturing / Engineering Employers who were exhibiting included: BD, The Cornwall Bakery, Princess Yachts, Kawasaki PM, Plessey, Schneider Electric, Babcock, Rittal CSM, Aldermans, RSP, Karsal Manufacturing, MOD, Mars Wrigley and ViSpring.
These employers, alongside fantastic companies in the construction and the built environment, were promoting job opportunities across a variety of career pathways, looking for talent like you!
Local training providers also attended to answer training and education questions and included; City College Plymouth, University of Exeter, The Focus Training Group, Greenlight Safety and Training, Skills Group, The Plymouth Engineering Skills Centre and South Devon College.
Each year, our Careers Café is open for visitors to talk with Skills Launchpad Plymouth’s Youth Hub team and Careers Advisors to consider their next steps.
Some of the stands were managed by people who started their career by coming to our Careers Fair as a visitor – maybe you could be supporting an employer at a fair in the future too!
Whether you’re looking to do an apprenticeship, A-Levels, T-Levels, full-time degree study or are graduating, there can be a place for you in a Plymouth-based manufacturer or construction & built environment company and you can go far. Of course, we need excellent engineers, fantastic technicians, and amazing designers, but we also need brilliant people in the other parts of the business from HR to Purchasing, and Project Management to Marketing.
Our annual Early Careers Fair is the perfect place to get inspired and find out more about apprentice and graduate level opportunities as well any industry placements that our local employers are offering.
As visitors, you are invited to try your hand at taster activities, demonstrations, sample products, competitions and also meet Plymouth apprentices and graduates already working within these dynamic industries. In addition, careers advisors are on hand in our Careers Cafe in the Plymouth Argyle’s Players Lounge!
A visit to this event will improve your chances of securing an early career opportunity – look out for our 2026 dates to be announced.
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Looking for Advice and Support?
Check out the Skills Launchpad Plymouth, Youth Hub.
Whatever your personal circumstances, whether you’ve just left school, college or university, are a concerned parent/guardian, or a young person who does not know what move to make next, if you are 16-24 years old and live in and around Plymouth the Youth Hub can offer you:
Click here to visit the Youth Hub webpages.
- Practical help with CV writing, interview practice and job searching
- The facts about the current and future employment picture of Plymouth to inform your skills choices
- Access to free one-stop impartial information, advice and guidance service to help your shape your careers and skills plan.
- Support to become work ready and equipped with the skills you’ll need
- A chance to brush up on key skills to work such as Maths and English, and the all-important digital skills
- Awareness of city-wide career events and opportunities to meet local recruiting employers
- Help to keep you informed and match you with real opportunities to work
You’ll also find support for mental health and well-being, to help give you the confidence and reassurance to get started.
