Key Takeaways
- Undertake a 1-year undergraduate placement in Safety and Reliability Engineering starting September 2027.
- Earn £24,460 per year, with opportunities for paid overtime and a company bonus.
- Gain experience across the full product lifecycle in the defence sector.
- Requires a degree in Engineering, Physics, or Astronomy.
- Applications close at midnight on Monday 4th January 2027.
About the Role
The Safety and Reliability Department is critical to ensuring that the complex weapon systems MBDA provides to the Armed Forces are safe to operate and perform flawlessly when it matters most. You will gain hands-on experience across the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept to customer delivery.
What we can offer you:
- 1 year placement: Starting September 2027, that allows you to apply your university learning to real-world projects and technologies
- Perform well on your placement and you could secure a graduate role before your final year
- Company bonus: Based on company performance and will vary year to year
- Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus option to purchase extra holiday
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
The Safety and Reliability Department support all areas of the business to ensure all the products MBDA produces are safe to use and provide a reliable performance to the Armed Forces who protect our nations.
This role involves assessing and assuring the safety and reliability aspects of complex weapon systems. Specialisation in either safety or reliability can be supported, but the preference is to fully develop skills in both areas.
Successful candidates will:
- Develop a specialist background in Safety and Reliability Engineering within the Defence sector.
- Experience and support product development across the different phases; from product conception through testing and trials to manufacture and customer delivery.
- Experience of Safety and Reliability Engineering techniques and best practice. For example; Hazard Analysis, Failure Mode Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Safety or Reliability Case Reports.
- Have opportunities to build and secure a network with other stakeholders within and outside of MBDA (for example; Supporting design teams to deliver safe and reliable products on time and on cost, implementing business processes with guidance from Guided Weapon Safety Officers or Technical Experts, facilitating or attending Customer Safety Panel meetings or Community of Practice events).
There are creative opportunities in MBDA, for example, to take part in outreach representing Safety / Reliability Engineering in your community and becoming involved in collaborative internal knowledge sharing events.
What we’re looking for from you:
- Current undergraduate working towards a Degree in an Engineering (incl. Aeronautical/Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Systems and safety), Physics or Astronomy discipline.
Working Conditions:
- Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
- Security clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. After offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.