Undergraduate Placements

Locations: Stevenage
Start date: PLEASE NOTE: ALL VACANCIES HAVE NOW BEEN FILLED

Are you looking for an industrial year placement and have you completed a minimum of two years of your degree course? If you can answer yes to both these questions MBDA can offer you a superb opportunity to gain valuable work experience on our one-year undergraduate programme. There’s no better way to get an insight into our business than by spending time at the heart of it, and this placement can count towards a professional qualification, lead to final year sponsorship and a place on one of our graduate schemes after university.

The placement is a structured programme of work experience, complete with competitive salary, benefits, training, development and a professionally qualified mentor. Wherever you join us, you’ll get to make a major contribution to a project, and your professional and personal development.

Available mainly in our Technical & Engineering and Operations Directorates, you should have a minimum of 240 UCAS points* and be studying towards a minimum 2:1 Honours Degree ideally in one of the following disciplines; Engineering (electrical, mechanical, systems, software, aeronautical, aerospace) Maths, Physics or similar.

It’s a challenging environment but the various elements included in your programme will help you to succeed.

Prior to joining you will be allocated a ’buddy’ who’ll provide informal advice and guidance.
On commencing employment you will attend a comprehensive induction that explains the full scope of what we do.
Many of our engineering programmes are recognised by professional institutes including IMechE, IET, Institute of Physics, Royal Aeronautical Society and SEMTA.

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* UCAS points are based upon 'A' level grades and are awarded as follows: A = 120 points; B = 100 points; C = 80 points; D = 60 points; E = 40 points.