Undergraduate Work Placements

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Location

Belfast and Plymouth

Closing Date

June 30, 2023

If you’re due to take a placement in industry as part of your degree, we can offer you invaluable real-world experience through our Industrial Placement scheme. We offer a range of benefits including the opportunity to earn whilst you learn, develop invaluable business skills and take a step towards your full-time career.

Current work placements

We’re currently offering work placements in several parts of our business. Click below to see what opportunities we have live.

Social Value & Environmental Coordinator

Location: Belfast

Role Type: Year Long Industrial Placement

Babcock is a leading Rail Systems business that supports our client across the UK and Ireland in keeping our railways safe and operational 365 days a year. We work in partnership with our clients to plan and deliver a variety of renewals and complex enhancements in a safe and secure manner. Our involvement ranges across all technical areas of the railway system and provides our client with leading engineering and management solutions.

Our works are delivered through partnering and collaborative arrangements with our client with a focus on longer term framework agreements. We hold BS11000 accreditation, the quality standard for Collaborative Business Relationships. We recognise the importance of working together with all our stakeholders and developing long term, mutually beneficial relationships with them.

If you are due to take a placement in industry as part of your degree, we can offer you invaluable real-world experience through our Industrial Placement scheme. We offer a range of benefits including the opportunity to earn whilst you learn, develop invaluable business skills and take a step towards your full-time career.

What you will be doing

  • Undertaking Social value benchmarking across the UK and Ireland.
  • Creation and formation of social value plan for Babcock rail.
  • Creating presentations for Schools across NI for all age groups and abilities. Regarding Railways, Environment, Biodiversity and engineering.
  • Visiting schools and community groups across NI
  • Creating initiatives within local communities/groups to fulfil Babcock’s Social Value Goals.
  • Liaising with management to achieve and seek funding for local community initiative
  • Development of monthly reporting system to the Babcock management team including creating posters and social media posts.
  • Ability to speak confidently on behalf of Babcock in high level client meetings in the absence of line manager regarding social value initiatives.
  • Ability to liaise with supply chain to create further social value scoring opportunities.
  • Assist the environmental advisor with day to day tasks as required
  • Recording and analysis of environmental/social data

What you will get out of it

You will spend your year long placement getting hands-on with social value and environmental initiatives across a range of Babcock rail sites. This role would be ideal for anyone hoping to work in Environment and sustainability.

What you will need

  • To be studying a relevant Degree
  • To be able to satisfy the requirements of the drugs and Alcohol policy prior to working on any Northern Ireland Rail site
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Nuclear and Marine – Plymouth

(Undergraduates studying STEM based degrees )

What you’ll be doing

You will be based in one of our design, safety or facility management offices working with the teams who maintain the facilities at Devonport, Plymouth to support the MoD and Royal Navy.

What you’ll get out of it

Half of the entire Royal Navy surface fleet is based in Devonport, so you’ll spend your year in industry getting hands-on with some of the world’s most advanced naval technology. You’ll have a variety of different opportunities, working as part of technical departments, project management or production teams.

What you’ll need

• Studying a STEM degree
• To be able to satisfy the MoD’s security requirements (you may need to complete a medical assessment)

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