Engineering Programs Intern — Cross-Disciplinary, Startup

targetjobs UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

targetjobs UK is seeking a graduate mechanical/electrical/automotive engineer with program management experience to join a fast-paced startup. You will work directly with the Engineering Program Manager and cross-functional engineers to coordinate design-to-build, gaining responsibility from day one.

You'll run project plans, track risks, prepare progress reports, and support build, test and commissioning on the shop floor.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Systems or General Engineering.
• Evidence of leading or coordinating a technical project at university, in a student team or in industry.
• Genuine hands-on interest in engineering, practical experience of building, testing or fixing things.
• Strong organisational instincts, the ability to hold a plan in your head and keep detail under control.
• Confident written and verbal communication, comfortable challenging engineers and suppliers.
• Competent with spreadsheets, project planning tools and technical documentation.
• Ability to work proactively with minimal supervision with few documented processes.
• Self-motivated, resilient and an effective team player.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Maintain engineering project plans, including schedules, milestones, dependencies and critical path.
• Run and minute engineering stand-ups and design reviews, capture actions and chase closure.
• Track open issues, risks and decisions across the programme and keep the risk register current.
• Prepare weekly progress reporting and simple engineering KPIs for the leadership team.
• Support coordination of concurrent workstreams across electrical, mechanical, software and build.
• Work with discipline engineers to capture and maintain system and subsystem requirements.
• Support design reviews by preparing packs, collating comments and tracking resolution.
• Assist with engineering studies, component comparisons and selection rationale.
• Support build, test and commissioning activities on the shop floor, including troubleshooting.
• Help prepare test plans, validation evidence and compliance documentation.
• Maintain the Bill of Materials and support engineering change requests through to release.
• Keep version control disciplined across drawings, documents and software releases.
• Write and improve work instructions and assembly documentation with the production team.
• Act as a clear point of contact between engineering, production, commercial and external partners.
• Prepare concise updates for internal stakeholders, customers and project partners.

Skills

Project coordination

Strong communication

Organisational skills

Hands-on engineering

Spreadsheets / planning tools

Team player

UK work eligibility

Education

Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Systems or General Engineering

Tools

CAD

PLM

ERP

MRP

Job description

targetjobs UK is seeking a graduate mechanical/electrical/automotive engineer with program management experience to join a fast-paced startup. You will work directly with the Engineering Program Manager and cross-functional engineers to coordinate design-to-build, gaining responsibility from day one.

You'll run project plans, track risks, prepare progress reports, and support build, test and commissioning on the shop floor.