Mechanical Engineering Placement - Rotating Equipment

Location - TBC based on business requirements.

Contract Type - 13-month FTC.

Working Hours - Full time.

Closing Date - 27 October 2024 or advert will close early if sufficient applications are received.

About the role

Are you interested in a placement with one of the UK's largest energy producers? Our Rotating Equipment Team has an exciting industrial placement opportunity, and is looking for a motivated team member with excellent interpersonal skills!

RWE Generation UK's Engineering and Outage (E&O) group supports our portfolio of gas fired power stations across Europe. The Rotating Equipment team is responsible for the technical engineering strategy, performance and risk management for gas turbines and steam turbines within the RWE gas division portfolio. A placement with the Rotating Equipment team will allow you to work within this dynamic and international group of engineers, and will be based either at RWE's UK head office in Swindon or at one of RWE's UK power station sites. You will also have opportunities to support the rest of the fleet remotely, and will have benefit from being able to visit and work at sites other than your base location.

• work alongside Mechanical Engineers to resolve real engineering problems that directly affect the portfolio.
• Undertake data analysis to diagnose problems to help in both long- and short-term projects.
• Gain important on-site experience and valuable hands-on practical skills.
• Enjoy using your problem solving and teamworking skills to successfully deliver your responsibilities.
• Attend courses, workshops and on the job training for your personal development.

• Ideally, you should be studying a BEng or MEng Mechanical Engineering degree at an undergraduate level.
• If your degree is in a similar Engineering, Maths or Science discipline and you have an interest in the energy industry, we'd love to hear from you!

• An expected starting salary of £ 23,628.
• A personal retirement savings plan - if you put in 5% we will top up by a further 10% and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro-rata.
• Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave and retail savings scheme.
• Occupational Health support services for your wellbeing.
• Access to our employee assistance programme in times of need.
• Up to 2 days volunteering a year.