Key Takeaways
- Undertake a 12-month placement as an Undergraduate Air Through Life Support Engineer.
- Earn £25,900 per year.
- Work on advanced defence and aerospace solutions in Warton/Samlesbury, Lancashire.
- Must be on track for a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related STEM subject.
About the Role
This is a 12-month placement for an Undergraduate Air Through Life Support Engineer.
Location: Warton/Samlesbury (Lancashire). You will be expected to attend your site 3-4 days per week.
Salary: £25,900 per year.
Start Date: 21st June 2027
Role Description
In this role, you will contribute to the core Through Life Support activities within the Air Engineering environment. Your work will include performing detailed engineering analyses such as FMECA, Reliability and Maintainability assessments, and obsolescence evaluations to understand and improve system behaviour over time. You will help generate essential support documentation, including technical reports, maintenance schedules, maintenance procedures, and wider Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) deliverables. Throughout the product lifecycle, you may influence design for maintainability, collaborating closely with designers, maintainers, and suppliers to ensure the final solution is safe, sustainable, and efficient to support in service.
Core Duties
- Create engineering outputs to support maintaining equipment or systems throughout their entire life, from initial concept to eventual disposal, whilst always considering safety and environmental factors.
- Reliability Analysis: Interrogate and analyse design and supplier data to influence and qualify product design and support solutions.
- Maintainability: Utilise design and customer support and service data to identify maintenance optimisations to provide efficient maintenance policies, schedules and procedures.
- Technical Documentation: Research engineering documentation and create, update and publish design approved technical information.
- Product Support: Support customer personnel with understanding the operational and maintenance needs of their products and provide support solutions.
Qualification Requirements
As a minimum requirement you’ll need to be on track to obtain, a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree or a pass at Master’s level in the following subjects: Aerospace Engineering, Through-life Engineering Services Specialist, Systems Engineering or STEM.