Business Performance Placement (12.5 months)

Prestwick Aerosystems; Broughton; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Half day Fridays

Flexible working hours

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Airbus Operations Limited offers an internship at the Broughton site focused on Improvement & Performance Management. You will gain hands-on experience in data analysis, reporting, and project coordination within a global aerospace setting, collaborating with international teams.

You must be an undergraduate pursuing a degree in Business, Management, IT, or related fields, with strong attention to detail. This placement emphasizes practical learning, cross-cultural collaboration, and leadership

Qualifications

• Undergraduates only for the whole duration of the placement.

Responsibilities

• Performance & Reporting: analyze data to identify key topics and support senior management reviews.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: understand risks and transform challenges into opportunities.
• Supply Chain Management: learn relationships, performance, and logistics with external partners.
• Quality & Business Management Systems: understand global standards and compliance.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-cultural communication

Business acumen

Education

Undergraduate degree in progress

Tools

Google Suite

Job description

Start date: 16 August 2027 | Location: Broughton, North Wales | Duration: 12.5 months | Applications close on 25 October 2026!

Benefits:

• Salary: £24,246
• 35 hours per week
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working options available depending on the role
• Half day Fridays!
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

Welcome to the operational foundation of Airbus Facilities Management & FMRE. Based at our historic Broughton site, our team provides the governance, data, and processes that underpin how we manage our business across all three Airbus divisions (Commercial, Defence & Space, and Helicopters). We sit at the intersection of data, strategy, and daily operations, ensuring our vast industrial estates run safely, efficiently, and sustainably. If you want to see how a global aerospace leader balances high performance with its environmental and social responsibilities, this is where it happens. We collaborate to resolve real-world operational challenges every day, proving that what we do behind the scenes directly maintains and optimises the very facilities, infrastructure, and advanced production spaces where our world-class aircraft and aerospace products are built.

What you will be doing:

• Performance & Reporting: Diving into data analysis to identify key performance topics , simplifying complex messages to facilitate management decisions, and contributing directly to senior management performance reviews;
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Learning how to understand business risks before they happen and transforming operational challenges into positive opportunities;
• Supply Chain Management: Gaining invaluable insight into how we build relationships, manage performance, and coordinate logistics with our critical external partners;
• Quality & Business Management Systems: Understanding the framework of how a global leader like Airbus maintains its high standards of quality and operational compliance.

Skills you will develop:

• Data Analytics & Storytelling: Connecting data points to create clear, meaningful insights for senior leaders;
• Cross-Cultural Communication: Partnering daily with transnational teams across Europe;
• Business Acumen: Project coordination, structured problem-solving, and continuous improvement methodologies.

Requirements:

• 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 inform your graduation date on your application.
• Studying towards a degree in Business, Management, IT, Project Management, or equivalent;
• Knowledge in data analysis;
• Google Suite;
• Open minded and able to work with international teams;
• Attention to detail and problem solving skills;
• Leadership skills.

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

You will be subject to a BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check. You may also need to gain UK SC-level Security Clearance or Export Control, depending on the role.

Company: Airbus Operations Limited Employment Type: Internship ------- Experience Level: Student Job Family: Improvement & Performance Management

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Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all.

We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.