Engineering Intern

Location
Leicester, UK
Employment type
Internship
Posted
Oct 9, 2026
Last seen
Oct 13, 2026

About the role

As a Manufacturing Engineering Intern, your main responsibilities will involve:

- - Supporting a fast-paced manufacturing production line to maintain production throughput ensuring safety, quality and timing goals are met - Proactively identifying continuous improvements on the production line, through process monitoring and data analysis, and leading these projects to completion - Perform feasibility studies on new processes and develop existing processes with robust process controls across a portfolio of products and lifecycle phases, from initial product development planning, product launch, capacity increases and ongoing production support - Providing key input into product changes and modifications, to ensure they are designed for efficient manufacture and assembly. - Participating in cross functional teams to achieve manufacturing excellence, working with our external customers and suppliers when required - Providing Manufacturing Engineering input for process planning, change management requests, documentation changes and process validation - Develop, procure and maintain fixturing and tooling for manufacturing - Automation of processes to support faster throughput or quality improvements

To be successful in this role you will:

- - Have strong oral and written communication skills - Have ability to solve complex technical problems - Having good interpersonal skills and be able to work independently and as part of a team - Have ability to use CAD (previous knowledge of Solidworks is an advantage) to design fixtures and analyse product designs. Experience with drafting technical drawings and GT&D - Be curious and keen to understand different manufacturing processes, assembly techniques and have good attention to detail of components and assemblies - Be interested in driving process improvements - Be energetic and keen to succeed