Dyson plans engineering job boost - graduate jobs

Engineering graduates will be cheered by news that inventor James Dyson has pledged to recruit more of Britain's young engineers as part of a boost in research and development spending.

Best known for inventing the bagless vacuum cleaner, Mr Dyson plans to increase the size of Dyson's UK engineering team from 350 to 700.

A large number of the recruits at the firms laboratories in Wiltshire will be university graduates in design, mechanical and acoustic engineering, the inventor revealed.

Dyson employs more than 2,500 people worldwide, with the number in the UK set to increase to 1,600. It exports its products to 49 countries across the world.

Since 2005 it has launched the Dyson Airblade hand dryer and the firm's smallest ever vacuum cleaner, alongside a quadrupling of research and development spending.

Areas of expertise at Wiltshire include microbiology, as well as fluid, electrical, thermal, acoustic and software engineering.

Mr Dyson said: "It is vital that Dyson - and the UK - continues to invest in the nation's engineering talent if we are to stay ahead.

"With excellent young aspiring scientists and engineers in our schools it falls to companies such as Dyson to encourage this future generation."