Safety and Reliability Engineer - Summer Placement 2027
// Role Summary
Gain hands-on experience in Safety and Reliability Engineering within the Defence sector on a 10-week summer placement, applying your academic knowledge to complex weapon systems.
// Key Responsibilities
- 10-week placement starting June 2027.
- Gain experience across the product lifecycle in a critical Defence department.
- Opportunity to apply Safety and Reliability Engineering techniques.
- Potential to secure a graduate role for strong performers.
- Hybrid working model with 2-3 days on-site.
- BPSS security clearance required.
// Role Specification
Safety and Reliability Engineer - Summer Placement 2027
Our Safety and Reliability Department is critical to ensuring that the complex weapon systems we provide 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:
- 10 week placement: Starting June 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.
- Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%.
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime.
- Annual Leave: 5 days.
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much 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.
In this team you'll be supporting in assessing and assuring the safety and reliability aspects of the inherently lethal attributes required of complex weapon systems - specialisation in either safety or reliability could be supported.
During your placement, you may be supporting design teams to deliver safe and reliable products on time and on cost. Or implementing business processes (with guidance from Guided Weapon Safety Officers or Technical Experts).
From your time with us you can expect to:
- Develop an understanding of Safety and Reliability Engineering, specifically 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 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.
- Whatever you get involved in you'll also see how working with others is crucial to Engineering, by liaising with stakeholders in MBDA and also externally.
What we're looking for from you:
Current undergraduate working towards a degree in Physics, Astronomy or Aeronautical/Aerospace, Electrical/Electronic, Systems and Safety Engineering