Industrial Placement - Manufacturing Projects & Launch Quality Centre

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 (3 days minimum on site)

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".  to visit our virtual tour. 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 extraordinary vehicles for our customers and will be based at our state‑of‑the‑art headquarters in Crewe.

Join our Manufacturing Projects & Launch Quality Centre team and help bring the next generation of vehicles to life. You'll work with experts across Manufacturing, Engineering and Quality to support the successful launch of new vehicle programmes, ensuring products, processes and facilities are delivered right first time.

This placement offers a unique opportunity to develop your technical, analytical and project management skills while working on real business challenges that directly impact future vehicle programmes. You will build relationships across a wide range of functions and gain valuable insight into the automotive manufacturing lifecycle.

For the first time in 2027 we will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to experience the full department, widening the scope to aid in the delivery of our departmental strategy, making a meaningful contribution from day one.

• Working proactively to support the generation and tracking of Manufacturing requirements
• Support the technical analysis of design data to identify manufacturing feasibility risks & appropriate resolutions
• Launch readiness assessments, Ways of working & continuous improvements. Using AI and visual dashboards to enable Data driven assessments.
• Factory problem solving, collating and analysing data to resolve real production issues
• Generating traceable data driven dashboards to assess Manufacturing target achievement and status reporting, throughout the project lifecycle

Our department includes over 300 personnel & covers Manufacturing projects & Launch Quality Centre. The Manufacturing Projects Team is responsible for the right-first-time delivery of vehicle programmes integrating across the Bentley product lines into manufacturing areas. The team works collaboratively across multi-disciplined teams to ensure that manufacturing deliverables are completed, elevate & resolve manufacturing project issues throughout the Product Emergence Process (PEP).

Within our Launch Quality Centre team you will have the opportunity to contribute to activities that influence future vehicle designs through Design for Manufacture (DfM) principles, support new model launches within our launch teams, and help drive quality and efficiency improvements through the teams strategy plans. The role will also provide exposure to problem‑solving methodologies used to support series production and the launch of world‑class manufacturing standards.

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

• Engineering (any discipline), Business…