Undergraduate Placement Year 2026

Company Description
We're the nation's favourite heating brand, here to warm up people's homes, lives, and futures.
From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we're giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting-edge tech and research, we're right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.
It's not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.
As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we're no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.
If that sounds like something you'd like to be a part of, we'd love to meet you.
Come and work at Worcester Bosch.
Job Description
Join us for your placement year in summer 2026 Our internships are designed to give you an insight into what it's like to work for a world-renowned brand with a culture of support and community.

We develop jigs and tools to ensure consistency in manufacturing so each and every product is up to the highest quality standards. Ergonomic and Health and Safety requirements are also taken into account in development to protect employees from injury. We also provide technical support in day to day fault finding using problem solving and rapid prototyping processes.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Designing jigs and fixtures as required in order to ensure on time delivery based on manufacturing requirements using CAD softwares
• The production of engineering drawings to internal and external suppliers for fabrication
• On site development of layout to improve production processes and facilities.
• Selection and ordering of material and components using in house processes.
• Collaborate with Development Department for fabrication to ensure on time delivery based on Manufacturing Department requirements.
• Testing and maintaining torque tools according to manufacturing standards
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by supporting cost reduction, lead time reduction, and process/product optimization through Lean Manufacturing principles and collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering.
• Ensure safe, reliable, and environmentally-friendly processes on the shop floor, in compliance with Health, Safety and Environmental regulations.

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Qualifications
Please note that to be eligible for this role, you must be an undergraduate student seeking a placement year as part of your degree - if you do not meet these criteria please consider applying for other positions.
Our ideal candidate must have:

• Knowledge of CAD or equivalent, preferably 3D solid modelling (Fusion360, Solidworks, Solid Edge, AutoCAD)

Our ideal candidate should have:

• Experience with 3D printing
• Able to work well with others
• Work under own initiative
• Cope with deadlines

Right To Work:
please ensure you have a valid Right To Work in the UK status for the entirety of the placement year upon submitting an application.

Additional Information

Deadline for Applications: 31/02/2026
Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Expected Start Date: July 2026
Please note that this date is advisory and can be flexible within reason.
Contract Duration:
1 year

Working Hours:
39 hours per week – standard working pattern of 07:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a 30-minute unpaid lunchbreak and 07:00 – 12:00 Friday

Working with us comes with the following benefits:

• 20 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays
• Access to the Perkbox Benefits platform
• Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
• Volunteering days
• Policy to support growing families
• Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme
• And more