Industrial Placement - Technical Conformity roduct Delivery, Compliance and Legislation

Salary: £25,500

Start Date: Monday 16th August 2027 – Friday 4th August 2028

Location: Based in Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3PL
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Work Arrangement: Hybrid working (a minimum of 3 days onsite)

Entry Requirements: See ‘What we’re looking for’ section

As part of Bentley’s annual Early Careers intake, you’ll join a community of around 93 trainees including Industrial Placements, Graduates, and Apprentices.

During your placement, you’ll be based at our Bentley Campus "Dream Factory". Alongside hands‑on work experience, you’ll also benefit from:

• CSR and outreach activities
• Opportunities to participate in charity events, community projects, and social committees
• Masterclasses, development workshops, and social events
• Inclusivity networks and peer support groups
• Placements and rotations across different areas of the business that interest you

As an Industrial Placement Student at Bentley, you will play a key part in Bentley’s journey to create extraordinary vehicles for our customers. Based out of our state‑of-the-art headquarters in Crewe, you will:

• Gain broad experience across Product Legislation, Project Delivery, Compliance and Change Management, supporting high-impact activities that enable Bentley vehicles to meet worldwide regulatory requirements and achieve market approval on time,
• Work alongside and be mentored by specialists across ET/P, collaborating with Engineering, Product Lines, Certification teams and Volkswagen Group partners,
• Develop an understanding of how legislation, programme planning, risk management and technical governance come together to support compliant vehicle delivery.

• Support the monitoring, analysis and communication of new and changing worldwide product legislation, helping the team assess potential impacts on future and current vehicle programmes,
• Assist Functional Project Managers with homologation plans, timing reviews, action tracking, risk and issue management, and preparation of clear programme updates,
• Support Technical Conformity governance activities, including hardware and software change control, compliance reviews and the preparation of information for decision‑making forums,
• Work with colleagues across ET/P and the wider business to collect, review and structure technical and project information, following up actions and helping maintain accurate records,
• Analyse data and create clear reports, presentations and dashboards using tools such as Excel and PowerPoint, while identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

ET/P brings together Product Legislation, Project Delivery and Compliance activities within Bentley Technical Conformity. The department helps the business understand new and changing worldwide regulatory requirements, plans and coordinates homologation activities across vehicle programmes, and provides governance for compliant product delivery.

You will work with experienced colleagues across a varied portfolio, from legislative research and interpretation through to programme planning, risk management, change control and continuous improvement. This placement offers broad exposure to how Engineering, Product Lines, Certification teams, Volkswagen Group partners and external stakeholders work together to achieve timely and compliant market entry.

The successful candidates will be on track to achieve a 2:1 in the following degrees:

Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Data or Business Analytics, Project or Business Management, Law, Public Policy or a related discipline.

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