Electrical & Electronic Placement Student

Start Date: 29th June 2026

Role Closing Date: 11th January 2026

Contract length: 10-12 months

Frazer-Nash are an engineering, systems and technology consultancy. Through our meaningful innovations, our experts support organisations make lives safe, secure, sustainable and affordable.

In a nutshell, engineering consultancy is all about providing advice to positively impact our clients’ projects and businesses and the wider world around us.

We like problems at Frazer-Nash. Our Electrical & Electronic Engineers work on the niche, the critical, and the novel situations our clients face today.

Our people join us to make an impact on the world and to learn from some of the best minds in the industry.

Our people stay with us because they value our highly diverse team environment and the career opportunities provided by our sustained growth.

The Electrical & Electronic engineers of Frazer-Nash support our clients providing world leading design lifecycle support to their enterprise, equipment and plant operations.

We typically work on high end engineering projects either within regulated industries, critical national infrastructure or where there is a real technological challenge such as safety critical system design or production of novel prototypes to demonstrate innovation.

Our Electrical and Electronic Engineers provide such services as – safety critical electronics design, rapid prototyping, control algorithm and real-time system development, model-based systems design, FPGA and CPLD design and analysis, hardware in the loop systems, aging and obsolescence support, failure forensics and digital communications.

Our Electrical Engineers provide such services as – HV/LV Design, system and equipment qualification and assessment, equipment specification, power system modelling and analysis, battery storage and renewable energy system design, control & instrumentation design, design assurance (including functional safety), obsolescence and operational technology cyber support.

Is consulting for you?

Are you someone who can look beyond the task presented to understand and articulate our clients’ needs?

Are you someone who has a desire to apply their technical skills to overcome problems in new industries?

As a Frazer-Nash Electrical & Electronic Software Placement Year Student, you can expect to be tasked on real world problems from the get-go. To give a flavour of our current tasking, we are:

• Design and delivery of the electrical systems at Hinkley Point C Power Station.
• Development of a safety critical control systems for next generation power generation such as Nuclear Reactors, wind turbines and Fusion.
• The concept electrical system design for UKAEA’s next generation Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production.
• Research into the reliability of programmable protection systems.
• Development of Hardware-in-the-Loop systems for customers for the testing of future operational scenarios and “blackbox” unit replacements in support of obsolescence.
• Design of radiological protection systems for European Spallation Source.
• Upgrade to UK dockyard electrical systems to support the next generation of ships and submarines.
• Design of a new 11 kV power system to support decommissioning of a nuclear power plant over the next 60 years.
• Research and development of novel military command and control systems.
• And many, many more….

As a consultancy organisation we are looking for ambitious, intelligent, organised and inquisitive people, who can solve challenging problems.

An enthusiasm for electrical and electronic software engineering and how innovation can deliver a securer, safer, sustainable and affordable world.

• A problem solver: with the ability to critically question what you see, to solve problems that build on your technical understanding, and show initiative and ownership for your ideas and work.
• A team player: with the ability to work with supervision and with others with different technical backgrounds.
• A self-starter: with the ability and desire to take ownership of the tasks ahead of you and deliver them to the client, project or team to create…