Job Description:

Start date: 18th August 2025

Location: Broughton, North Wales (please note that a similar position is available in our Filton plant)

Duration: 12.5 months

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits:

Salary: £21,900

35 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Hybrid working // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

Every year we look for undergraduates from around the world to join Airbus. We need people with the aspiration, enthusiasm and the talent to help us move forward and to change the future by delivering our vision to pioneer sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world.

We believe in welcoming ground breaking ideas and putting them into actions and the power of internal and external intelligence. We believe in inspiring our community to make our people grow.

Programme Management is at the heart of delivering real added value to the Airbus business. It is essential in delivering innovative products to our customers in an agreed timescale, within an allocated budget, and to the highest of quality standards.

This role is within the Project Management Office, working alongside our programme leaders. This could be on one of our aircraft programmes, within one of the many supporting functions such as Engineering, Programmes or within the operation itself.

What you will be doing:

You will learn to deploy Best Practice project management methods and tools within our programmes, projects and functions. This could include:

Agile and waterfall project set up;
Project maturity and governance including lessons learnt;
Integrated schedule planning;
Baselining projects and identifying critical path activities;
Risk and opportunity management;
Creating and maintaining digital project monitoring and control processes (digital data analysis etc.);
Finance monitoring and control.

You will be working alongside multi functional team members on a day to day basis, ensuring all team members are delivering on time, on cost and on quality as well as understanding how each function contributes to project success.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only . Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

Please ensure you include your CV and a cover letter for your application to be considered.

Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate the following:

Studying towards a degree in Project Management, Business, Economics, Information Technology and/or Systems, Engineering, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Systems, or equivalent;
Experience of project working within a team;
Ability to listen, understand and respond in a constructive manner;
Willingness to handle changes on a day-to-day basis;
Curious and challenging mind-set;
Ability to speak up;
Team spirit and positive outlook.
Nice to have data management and visualisation skills.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance OR You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

Contact:

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; additional time for written exercises; auxiliary aids; room layout; dietary requirements etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Operations Limited

Employment Type:

Internship

Experience Level:

Student

Job Family:

Programme & Project Management

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Airbus Operations Limited

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