Undergraduate Placement Year 2027 – Production Engineer

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 #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Job Description

Join us for your placement year in summer 2027! 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.

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. An internship with Worcester Bosch will allow you to develop your skill in problem solving, critical thinking and project management while giving you the freedom to lead improvement projects, be creative in your solutions and learn about new engineering disciplines.

You will be joining a tight knit team of young engineering’s that have a culture of support, communication and trust. There is a strong sense of team work and collaboration with a determination to drive improvements and projects. There has also been a high number of returning interns after there studies have been completed.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Improving the digitalisation of the Clay Cross Manufacturing plant

Assist in I4.0 projects in different processes around the manufacturing site

Participating in and leading Continuous Improvement Projects

Supporting the launch of new products into the plant and changes to existing products

Ensuring that we meet internal and external legislation for the manufacturing process

Upkeep and creation of SOPs

A good balance of office work and being hands on in a shop floor environment

Problem solving on live issues on manufacturing lines to keep production going

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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:

Be studying a Bachelors or Masters in a STEM field

Good attitude to learning

Computer literate including Microsoft 365

Our ideal candidate should have:

Team working experience

Willingness to drive projects by themselves

Some problem solving experience

Manages time effectively

Understanding of lean manufacturing techniques; Just in Time, Waste elimination, Pull Systems

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: 27/11/2026

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 2027

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!