Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Summer Internship

Job Details

Undergraduate - Summer Internship - Nuclear

Get an incredible summer experience and immerse yourself in our world. These 10 to 12-week paid internships over the summer holiday give you the opportunity to try out a discipline and see if it’s something you want to do once you graduate.

Our internships offer more than just work – they’re a chance to experience life at Babcock, meet new people, and develop skills that will enhance your future career.

What you’ll be doing

You will be based in one of our design, safety or facility management offices working with the teams who maintain the facilities at Devonport, Plymouth to support the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Royal Navy. Our growing Engineering teams work collaboratively with our customers in the UK and around the world incorporating leading edge technology into existing vessels and to create innovative new ship designs. During this summer internship you’ll be given the opportunity get involved in real-world projects from your first day.

What you’ll get out of it

Half of the entire Royal Navy surface fleet is based in Devonport, so you’ll spend your summer getting hands-on with some of the world’s most advanced naval technology. You’ll have a variety of different opportunities, working as part of technical departments, project management or production teams.

What you’ll need

• Studying a STEM degree.
• Many of our early careers roles are subject to Security Clearance and Trade Control restrictions which mean that your place of birth, nationality, citizenship, or residency you hold or have held may impact which roles you are eligible for. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels. For our early careers roles, you must be able to achieve BPSS and many of them require you to be eligible for Security Clearance.

About Babcock 

Babcock is an international defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets with potential to become focus counties. We meet our customers’ key requirements of affordability, availability, and capability by delivering engineering, support and critical systems to defence and civil markets.

We provide through-life technical and engineering support for our customers’ assets, delivering improvements in performance, availability and programme cost. Our 26,000 employees deliver these critical services to defence and civil customers, including engineering support to naval, land, air and nuclear operations, frontline support, specialist training and asset management.

We also design and manufacture a range of defence and civil specialist equipment, from naval ship and weapons handling systems to liquid gas handling systems. We also provide integrated, technology-enabled solutions to our defence customers in areas such as secure communications, electronic warfare and air defence.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.