Industrial Placement Design Engineering

Role Overview & Responsibilities

The Interior Engineering department in Nissan is looking for new industrial placement candidates that are passionate about design and materials engineering!!!

This is a 1-year placement starting in August 2023!!!

Working for the Global automotive company Nissan at its European R&D centre (NTCE) based near Milton Keynes and Cranfield University, you’ll play a key role in our push towards electrification, resolving the challenges and opportunities this creates to enhance our customer experience in the cabin.

The Placement Scheme

This scheme provides the opportunity to get hands on experience supporting the team of Engineers designing, developing, and testing vehicles, and working with colleagues and suppliers from all over the world.

Within this role you will gain hands on experience of all aspects of the development process from benchmarking, target setting, layout planning, concept sheet making, collaboration with styling, sourcing, technical cost analysis, digital and physical phase design & development & supplier / cost management extending into the life cycle of the project.

Through this you will be able to develop your knowledge of how to design for cost whilst delivering the high levels of quality our customers expect within a strict project timing framework.

This is an interesting, challenging and rewarding scheme and this is the reason so many of our industrial placements return to us in Graduate roles, in fact many managers and senior leaders within the organisation started in Industrial placement roles, including the Vice President of Research & Development!

What you’ll need to be successful

You’re studying an Engineering or related subject

You will work with honesty and integrity

A good communicator, building and maintaining great working relationships is vital

Determination to succeed

An inquisitive mindset

Working at Nissan Technical Centre Europe

Based in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0DB

Hybrid Working: 3 days in the office/ 2 days from home

Half day Fridays!

Free on-site parking when you are on site

Paid overtime at 1.5x hourly rate

On-site gym

Subsidised canteen and free fruit

Car lease and purchase schemes

Many other

Salary £20,757

All of us at Nissan -share a passion to design, manufacture and sell high-performance, fun to drive, exciting vehicles that enrich people’s lives.

Nissan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly believe in and promote Diversity and Inclusion and will be thrilled to welcome diverse candidates from various backgrounds to join our team of professionals.

Cranfield Bedfordshire United Kingdom