Facilities and Infrastructures Electrical Placement (12.5 months)

Location: Filton

Duration: 12.5 months

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits: 

Salary: 20,590

35 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

The role is based within the Facilities Management and Real Estate (FMRE UK) organisation at Broughton site.  The candidate will work across the whole Airbus UK portfolio of sites with direct accountability into the Airbus Services UK team.

FMRE UK is responsible for a huge range of deliverables to Airbus UK, including but not limited to:

• Real Estate and General Zoning management;

• Aerodrome management;

• Energy and Supply;

• Major Building and Construction projects;

• Maintenance, Catering and Cleaning.

What you will be doing:

This exciting opportunity offers successful applicants the chance to influence and drive change in a challenging, diverse department, matured over recent years to an integrated “ONE FMRE” team incorporating both Airbus Commercial and Airbus Defence & Space (ADS) across the UK.

Services UK delivers maintenance, energy, waste management, catering, archiving, reprographics and graphic design provision through the use of sub-contractors. Preventative and reactive maintenance is carried out which supports the ongoing reliability of the equipment on the sites achieved by using technical engineering skills in both the UK Team and the Supply Chain to optimise asset uptime whilst ensuring all regulatory compliance is met. Future investments and asset replacement strategies are based on sound analysis of performance data to ensure the right decisions are achieved.

As the successful candidate, you will:

• support the site HO Services with the financial management of budgets and forecasting;

• participate in capital investment (CapEX) planning and projects according to Airbus principles;

• work with the disciplined engineers, identify redundant services and systems within our main manufacturing facility at Broughton;

• contribute to the strategy for each system removal, ensuring any risks are identified and collated on the Airbus ARM tool (Risk Management);

• develop asset strategies for the specific service deliverables.

The initial focus will be on external pump stations and ventilation systems ensuring all future projects have clear and aligned specifications to protect and deliver total cost of maintenance.

Requirements:

Please note our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement.

*Please ensure you include your CV and a cover letter for your application to be considered.*

As the successful candidate, you must be able to demonstrate the following:

• Studying towards a degree in Electrical Engineering;

• The ability to listen, understand and communicate information;

• A strong interest in developing yourself;

• An interest in finding creative solutions to complex problems;

• Ability to make decisions based on evidence;

• Basic project management skills, but also willing to learn and develop according to Airbus tools and processes;

• Good stakeholder management skills, including excellent communication, customer focus and the ability to deliver on commitments;

• Flexibility in a dynamic environment;

• Good attention to detail;

• Basic understanding or interest in Investment Planning and Operational Budgets.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance OR You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

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