Placements
Providing students with the opportunity to continue their STEM journey after leaving school or college, Placements enable young people to take a paid gap year to help inform and shape their future career choices by gaining invaluable experience working in industry while developing their skills and knowledge.
We help place students into top UK companies and organisations every year as well as SMEs and start up R&D companies, giving students the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge and experience of working in all areas of engineering, science (particularly physics), technology/electronics, business, marketing and finance across the UK.
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We offer technology-focussed scholarships to enthusiastic students who are planning to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) related subjects at university. Our aim is to foster close links with education, and to provide opportunities for young people to gain a greater awareness of the role science and technology play in today’s world. This is a great opportunity to experience life in a challenging but rewarding work environment whilst doing what you enjoy and gaining skills that will help you fast track your career.
You’ll work across an incredibly diverse range of projects, sectors and subject areas. Rather than supporting a single client,you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with many, including some of the world’s biggest brands and most exciting start-ups.
Details of the scheme
Your first year
You’ll work at the company as a salaried employee for approximately 10 months between finishing school and starting at university, and join a team aligned to your technical interests and career aspirations. During this time, you’ll have the chance to work on challenging projects and take part in the day-to-day work of the company alongside highly experienced engineers, interspersed with periods of practical training relevant to your chosen discipline.
Your subsequent years
At the end of your ‘gap year’ placement with the company, you’ll have the opportunity to apply for an annual bursary and summer vacation work. If successful, you’ll be eligible to receive a generous annual bursary for the duration of your first degree as well as guaranteed further employment with the company during your university summer vacations.
COMPANY BACKGROUND:
Do you want to work on real-time projects alongside leadingscientists and engineers within a globally renowned company?
The company is an international leader in electronic andinformation technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures,land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. We are acontinually expanding company, offering exciting opportunities to talentedindividuals who want to work at the forefront of technology. With the majorityof our engineers having chartered status, you can look forward to working withhighly skilled professionals that are passionate about their work.
The company’s Year-in-Industry Programme offers you a paidplacement to develop your knowledge and skills in our innovative and practicalenvironment. In addition to working with our highly skilled engineers andbusiness professionals, successful completion of a Year-In-Industry Placementcan often lead to an offer for subsequent summer placements, or a permanentgraduate position on our industry leading Graduate Development Programme.
DESCRIPTION OF ROLE:
We offer a range of exciting Year-in-Industry placementopportunities across various technical functions. The company relies on havingthe very best employees to maintain its competitive edge and has some of theindustry’s most sophisticated technology at its fingertips. Undertaking aplacement with this company can provide invaluable support to your currentstudies: you will not only be working for a company at the cutting-edge oftechnology, you will also be enhancing your skills and business acumen and openingup your horizons to the diverse and dynamic ways in which your degree could beused in the future.
Year-in-Industry placement students will be involved in avariety of tasks in one of the following engineering disciplines – Systems,Software, Hardware, Firmware or Microwave Engineering.
Placement students have the opportunity to be involved inone or more phases of the engineering lifecycle to create and deliver new andemerging capabilities required by our customers: from the development ofarchitectures and concept designs for the next generation of EW capability,through to live trials of equipment and systems alongside our customers andend-users. Providing support to real projects, placement students will berequired to apply knowledge gained while studying in a practical way.
Placement students will undertake activities includingdesigning, testing, qualifying and supporting technology across our range ofproducts. The challenging tasks will involve communicating with other teammembers to gain information before completing objectives and examiningoutcomes.
The placements will be based at Capability Green, Luton,home to the Electronic Warfare and Major Air Programme Lines of Business.
Working as part of an established engineering community, andsupported by a team of experienced engineers, you will be responsible for:
• Deliveringsmall packages of work to time, cost and quality.
• Workingwithin a team to achieve project targets, collaborate across multipledisciplines and solve problems.
• Communicatingwith team members to share knowledge.
• Gainingan understanding of the EW domain to support the development of relevantproducts and technologies.
• Completingtasks to a high standard in accordance with appropriate processes andprocedures.
• Usingthe opportunity to develop engineering skills. A supervisor will be availableto provide mentoring whilst working as a fully integrated member of the team.
KEY COMPETANCIES:
• Goodcommunication skills are essential, both written and verbal
• Ability to solve technical problems
• Science,Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) related degree (or A-Level subjectsfor Pre-University Applicants)
• Computerliteracy and the ability to use the MS Office suite of tools
• MATLAB/Simulinkexperience beneficial
• Aptitudeand interest in engineering and/or science
SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED:
Nationality and Security Clearance
Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity youmust be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Candidates must be able to obtainthe level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business. One ofthe requirements for this level of clearance is a minimum of 5 years permanentresidency in the UK.
Age restriction – successful candidate must be 18years old before they start their placement.
Applications for our Pre-University Year-In-IndustryPlacement roles are reviewed on the merits of each application and on acase-by-case basis. Please note that successful Candidates typically undertakeSTEM subjects at A-Level, such as Mathematics, Physic, Chemistry or Biology.Successful candidates also demonstrate a keen interest in the Engineeringfield, and potentially (however not mandatory) support their studies throughextracurricular STEM engagements.