Undergraduate Placement Year 2026 - Product Introduction Purchasing Engineer; On Site

Company Description

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures. From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting‑edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating. It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company.

We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause – delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering. As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously.

From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work – we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out. If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you. Come and work at Worcester Bosch.

Join us for your placement year in summer 2026. Our internship is designed to give you insight into what it’s like to work for a world‑renowned brand with a culture of support and community.

• Act as a project team member on international NPI purchasing engineering projects.
• Introduce new components from concept stage to product introduction.
• Develop engineering changes to existing parts to enhance cost, quality, and time, liaising with suppliers, R&D, quality, and manufacturing to meet project milestones and identify cost drivers.

• Undergraduate student seeking a placement year within an engineering degree – if you do not meet these criteria please consider applying for other positions.
• Student from an engineering background.
• Basic understanding of mechanical or electrical components.
• Basic understanding of 2D drawings and 3D models.
• Good organisational and planning skills with ability to prioritise workload.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing working environments and embrace new digitalisation.
• Confidence to challenge and create new ideas.
• Capability to work well in a team as well as independently, using own initiative.
• Quality mind‑set with high attention to detail.

• Final date to receive applications: 22/12/2025 (we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time). Submit early.
• Expected start date: 07/07/2025 (advisory and flexible).
• Right to work: ensure valid Right to Work in UK status for the entire placement year.
• Contract duration: 1 year.
• Working hours:
  
  39 hours per week – standard pattern 08:00–17:00 Monday to Thursday, 08:00–16:00 Friday with 1‑hour lunch break.

• 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Access to Perkbox Benefits platform.
• Discounts on Bosch Group products.
• Enhanced pension contributions.
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership – discounts for you and up to 5 friends/family.
• Volunteering days.
• Policy to support growing families.
• Health & wellbeing support including trained mental health first aid champions and free employee assistance programme.
• And more.