Undergraduate Placement Year 2026 – Design Engineer Intern

Job Description

Join us for your placement year in summer 2025! 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.

The Research and Development department is made up of several disciplines incorporating Project Management, Design, Development and Reliability functions.

We are dedicated to our products throughout their entire product life cycle that are manufactured and sold in UK and EU markets utilising a broad range of heating technologies such as boilers, hybrid systems, heat pump systems and alternative low carbon fuels including hydrogen.

We are part of an international network of development centres across the Home Comfort organisation, working together to ensure products are both compliant to the latest legalisations and meet the needs of our customers across the supply chain. You will join an internal network of peers striving to deliver the next range of exciting products.

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the Design Engineer(s) in the design department at Bosch Thermotechnology UK Ltd with a wide variety of tasks including:

• Working within a project team to assist with various tasks such as drawings, CAD 3D models, ECR and BOMs to ensure the overall project goals are achieved.
• To be responsible for some Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) by writing, update documentation, arranging for samples to be made and, when required, chasing the follow up actions with an ECR.
• To provide clearly documented information about the requirements for each design task.
• Update any reports on the design status on a regular basis

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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:

• Studying a degree in an engineering discipline, ideally mechanical engineering
• Open, approachable person who can work well together with other people inside and outside own department (team player)
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Good attention to detail and a desire to complete each task fully

Our ideal candidate should have:

Knowledge of using Unigraphics (TCNX) 3D CAD – or similar – software

• Ability to create and deliver, clear and concise presentations
• Open to the possibilities of both domestic and international travel

Right 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: 17th November

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 2025

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 08:00 – 17:00 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 – 16:00 Friday with a 1-hour lunchbreak

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!