Summer Placement

Summer Placement

**Location**:
York, GB

**Department Name**:
AK NE Infrastructure Director, Indirect (107753) G1

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**Brief Description**:
**Finding the smartest approach matters**

**About the role (External)**:
**Overview**
The scheme runs for 10 weeks from June to August 2023.
This opportunity is based in York George Stephenson House

**Who you are matters**

We look for logical thinkers, who aren’t afraid to take a creative approach to solving challenging problems. Resourceful and hardworking, you’ll be comfortable managing your own time to ensure the job gets done. As a natural communicator, you’ll be able to build relationships with colleagues, suppliers and customers alike. You’ll also need a degree of flexibility and not mind traveling to attend training and development opportunities.

**What you’ll be doing matters**

Over four placements, you’ll gain practical engineering experience at one of Britain’s largest railway operating centres. Expect to play a part in some of our most ambitious engineering projects, such as the Great Western mainline, the Great North Rail Project and Digital Railway.

You’ll have opportunities to maintain bridges and structures, and even take responsibility for deciding which innovative building materials and techniques to use, to improve reliability and sustainability. You’ll also help manage complicated inner-city assets, and establish inspection and maintenance requirements for embankments and cuttings that run through the countryside.

**What you’ll get out of it matters**
We invest in our summer placement students, because we believe they hold the potential to be the future of our business. That means from day one you’ll receive strong mentoring from senior colleagues. Over the ten weeks, you’ll get a rounded experience of what it takes to be a civil engineer on our railways.

**The opportunities it leads to matter**
Do well and you’ll be considered for next year’s graduate scheme.

**The entry requirements matter**

You’ll be in your penultimate year at university, and on track to achieve at least a 2:2 in an Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) accredited degree.

**We matter to millions. You could too.**

**Salary**: Band 7 - £17,000 per annum pro rataThis is a fixed term opportunity starting on 19th June and ending 17th August

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