Summer Internship

A Summer Internship at BAE Systems gives you a valuable 12 week insight into working life at one of the world’s most innovative companies. If you secure one of the 100+ placements available across our UK business, you’ll receive on-the-job training within a structured framework. We only offer placements when there’s work with real impact to be completed. It’s a great way to put theory into practice.

Business opportunities include:

Business Development
- Air
Identify, develop and win new business as part of a team with expertise in sales, marketing, customer relations, bid and proposal production, events and exhibitions. You’ll help define country and regional strategies, identify routes to market for our products and services, and gain experience of stakeholder management and building customer relationships.
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Commercial
- Air
Help us estimate, bid, negotiate and manage our most complex contracts. You'll be responsible for innovating new solutions to customer requirements and providing competitive advantage whilst meeting contractual obligations.

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Finance

Finance underpins everything we do – so it’s vital that we find and nurture our future talent now. Whilst on the scheme you will gain experience in one or more area including: financial accounting and reporting, management accounting and project accounting along with the chance to put theory into practice, learn from colleagues who are experts in their field, and gain insights that can only come from real world experience.

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Procurement / Supply Chain
- Submarines
- Air
Working in Procurement enables you to take up a variety of roles to help ensure that to that we deliver the right products, at the right time and at the right cost to the required quality. Your role will be very varied; ranging from undertaking supplier visits to a more analytical focus of developing procurement strategies.
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Project Management
- Head Office
Take responsibility for ensuring that we deliver on our customer commitments at the right time, at the right cost and to the best possible quality. Your work will give you the breadth of experience to succeed and tasks could include controlling budgets and expenditure, covering the governance of change within projects, resourcing, fulfilling contractual requirements or interfacing with our customers. You'll also review performance, analyse risks and take decisions to optimise project success.

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Engineering opportunities include:

Aerospace Engineering
- Air
Gain wide-ranging experience in the design, development, test, maintenance and support of fixed wing military and training aircraft systems. Disciplines you’ll cover include aerodynamics, electromagnetics, structures, integration, airworthiness, support engineering, mission systems, test engineering, flight systems and training systems integration.

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Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- Submarines
- Naval Ships
- Maritime Services
- Electronic Systems
Make decisions about electronic product content, optimise hardware and software design concepts, develop sophisticated design processes and test complex products. Gaining exposure to the entire project lifecycle, you’ll play a key role in both maintaining our existing systems and developing new technologies.
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Human Factors
- Submarines
Gain knowledge and experience of the analytical methods that ensure our products are safe and effective for human use. You’ll work on anthropometry and sensory capabilities and learn about the effects of stress, workplace design, information and control requirement definition within human machine interfaces and environmental ergonomics.

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Information Technology
- Electronic Systems
Working as part of the wider IT team to help focus improvements in customer experience. Developing new and enhanced functionality for business applications and software tools you will also be involved in identifying the root causes of support issues and working to increase end user knowledge of existing business applications and software tools.

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Mechanical Engineering
- Submarines
- Maritime Services
- Electronic Systems
Design, develop and test complex mechanical systems and turn ideas into products. You’ll learn how to generate concept ideas and turn them into viable solutions, gaining experience of 3D modelling and analysis tools that will help you factor in considerations including materials, manufacture, assembly, cost and performance.

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Naval Architecture
- Naval Ships
- Submarines
Gain experience of a whole boat engineering discipline, covering all aspects of design and manufacture, right through to launch, test and commissioning. As well as computer based design work, you'll also be involved in other activities such as computer simulation modelling and physical model tank testing.
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Operations, Manufacturing and Production
- Air
- Electronic Systems
Transform designs into products and help our manufacturing and construction teams deliver cutting edge technology in the most effective way. You’ll be able to get involved at all levels of the business, from solving manufacturing problems on the shop floor, through to working on facility strategies or managing your own improvement projects.

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Product Assurance
- Submarines
Get involved across the broad spectrum of in-service engineering, liaising direct with the customer in a fast paced and demanding environment to ensure products are produced in line with requirements. You’ll gain a unique perspective on how BAE Systems Submarines products are used and supported through life and how the decisions taken in build influence continued capability at sea.

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Product Safety
- Submarines
Work at the heart of our business, ensuring complex and safety-critical products are safe and fit for purpose. Working at all stages of the product lifecycle, from identifying and analysing hazards, to developing robust controls and safety procedures, you’ll play a pivotal role in development, production and testing, as well as helping us to develop comprehensive safety management systems for entire platforms.

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Production Engineering
- Submarines
As a Production Engineer Summer intern, you will have the opportunity to join a large team of highly qualified Engineers. You will contribute to supporting the ongoing Fabrication and outfitting of vessels, developing improvements to the production processes and facilities.

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Software Engineering
- Naval Ships
- Air
- Electronic Systems
Create cutting edge software for our hardware and be involved in the entire lifecycle of a product, from design and development to integration. Work closely with both Electronic and Systems engineers, you'll enable the development of complex real-world systems that have to perform perfectly every time, as the consequences of failure could be catastrophic.

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Systems Engineering
- Submarines
- Naval Ships
- Electronic Systems
Work in a holistic, multi-disciplinary role, focusing on the bigger picture and bridging the gaps between disciplines. Throughout the different stages of a product lifecycle, you'll take the lead in systems integration and testing, qualification and acceptance. As well as the technical aspects of projects, you'll also learn to consider important factors such as schedules, costs, training and environmental concerns.

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Your Learning and Development

Our Summer Internships offer you the chance to hone your skills and gain valuable industry experience. You have the chance to see theory put into action, and learn from colleagues who are experts in their field.

Rewards and Benefits

GBP p/a pro rata

GBP per month for Consulting, Engineering and Project Management roles in Cyber Security.

You can make a real impact during your internship. And you can expect real rewards package too over the 12 weeks, with 6.5 days’ holiday a potential fast track to our graduate schemes, subject to performance and availability.

What you’ll need

To join our Business or Engineering Summer Internship schemes you must be on course for at least a 2:2 Bachelor's degree in a related subject. Once you begin your search you will find specific details on preferred degrees within each role type.

For summer internship roles in Cyber Security you must be on course for at least a 2:2 Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths subject and also have 128 UCAS points (as per the 2017 UCAS tariff) or equivalent, excluding General Studies.

For finance placements, you must be on course for at least a 2:1 Bachelor's degree in a related subject and also have 112 UCAS points (as per the 2017 UCAS tariff) or equivalent, excluding General Studies.

You will also need to be available for the full 12 weeks.

Application process

We ask all candidates to apply online using our application form to ensure our selection process is completely fair and consistent.

Your online application will involve a number of numerical, verbal and situational strength tests.

If you are successful you will have a video interview, and selected candidates will then be invited to an assessment centre.

Our main recruitment window runs from the beginning of September to the end of October however applications remain open for the above role(s) and will close once sufficient applications have been received.

If successful you will commence your summer internship in June 2020.

Summer internships are open to all university year groups however individuals who are due to graduate prior to the commencement dates of our undergraduate programmes are not eligible to apply and should instead consider applying for one of our graduate offerings.