Engineering Placement Student
- Job Reference: 8032
- Date Posted: 28 January 2025
- Employer: EMR UK Careers
- Location: Birmingham
- Salary: On Application
Job Description
Package Description:
Great benefits such as:
• Bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague – and their dependents – unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
• Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
• 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support – access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
• Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!
About our opportunity:
Are you a Chemical, Mechanical, Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering student looking for a placement? Our Central Engineering R&D team is at the cutting edge of recycling technology and works hard to build a more sustainable future for the planet.
Are you ready to launch your engineering career in a hands-on, real-world environment? Join us at our Birmingham location as an Engineering Placement student, where you’ll be part of our innovative Central Engineering R&D Team. This 1-year placement starting in July 2025 offers you the chance to make a meaningful impact, work with cutting-edge processes, develop solutions that drive our projects forward and help to create a world where fewer things go to landfill. Reporting to the Engineering R&D Manager, you’ll play a key role in characterising materials, operating specialised R&D processing equipment, and exploring new technologies that will shape our industry’s future.
What You Will Be Doing:
• Operating R&D processing equipment and assisting with material sample characterisation (sorting, counting, weighing, etc.).
• Conducting detailed research into new engineering processes and technologies to drive innovation.
• Analysing technical documents, drawings, and safety standards to support project development.
• Preparing well-structured reports to communicate project progress and findings.
• Managing your time effectively and, on occasion, guiding others to ensure projects stay on track.
• Traveling to various EMR sites when needed to support broader project efforts.
About You:
You’re an enthusiastic engineering student who’s ready to dive into hands-on work with a proactive approach. You’ll ideally be in your 2nd or 3rd year, pursuing a degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, with a 2:1 or higher prediction for your final year.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need:
• A "can-do" attitude and the willingness to tackle tasks both big and small.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, whether working independently or as part of a team.
• Experience with Microsoft or Google Office software; a UK driving license is also ideal.
• (Bonus) Familiarity with engineering software like CAD, Matlab, or Process Engineering visualisation tools.
Who We Are:
European Metal Recycling is a global leader in sustainable materials with physical operations in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands. Our core business is the recycling of metal and plastics from a range of public, commercial and industrial waste streams. Our recycling activities generate around 10 million tonnes of sustainable materials every year, saving over 10 million tonnes of CO2.
Our mission is to have great people serving our customers with dependable recycling solutions. EMR is still privately owned, with family values at its core. It’s a place where we care about our people, our customers, our workplace and our communities. We offer diverse and exciting career opportunities where individuals can make a difference and are recognised and rewarded for their hard work.
Find out more about us at www.emrgroup.com
It goes without saying that you will need the correct licences or certificates for a variety of our roles.
However, at EMR we value the way we do things as much as the delivery. We call our expectations our Behaviours. They align with our Values of We Care and We Do, and they apply across all levels and roles in the business.
We Care
- Integrity – you are Respectful and Honest
- Trust – you are Collaborative and Genuine
We Do
- Accountable – you are Determined and Responsible
- Innovative – you have a Growth Mind-set and you are Progressive
The EMR Way - Our Behaviours will achieve success as One Team.
If you embody our Behaviours, we want to hear from you!