Safety Improvement Project Coordinator Placement (12.5 months)

Airbus; Penyffordd; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

35 hours per week

Half day Fridays

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Job summary

Airbus Operations Limited is offering an internship for a student to gain hands-on experience at the Broughton plant. The role focuses on improving safety and project management within a multidisciplinary team, with exposure to planning, budgeting, and reporting on project status.

You will work with experienced safety professionals across Airbus, contribute to developing and deploying project plans, and build business cases to deliver improvements in safety and efficiency at the facility in

Qualifications

• Studying towards a degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering, Occupational Safety, or equivalent.
• Nice to have Project Management skills and the ability to think strategically and translate improvement practices into local project plans.
• Ability to build business cases to justify any expenditure required to deliver the improvement projects.
• Collaborates well within a team, including working with a multistakeholder team.
• A good communication style to engage and influence people from different functions.
• Proficiency in the use of AI tools.
• Familiarity with Google Suite

Responsibilities

• Managing improvement projects aimed at optimizing the safety of personnel and the efficiency of machinery.
• Collaborating with transnational teams to identify best practices and implement them at the local level

Skills

Project Management

Strategic thinking

Business cases

Team collaboration

Communication

AI tools

Google Suite

Education

Manufacturing Engineering

Production Engineering

Occupational Safety

equivalent

Tools

Google Suite

AI tools

Job description

Job Description:

Start date: 16 August 2027

Location: Broughton, North Wales

Duration : 12.5 months

Applications close on 25 October 2026 !

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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:

As a leading aircraft manufacturer at the forefront of the aviation industry, Safety at Work is a Top Company Objective for Airbus. The global project ‘People Safety @ Work’ has teams from all of our plants working on best practices to reduce and eliminate the risks associated with using industrial equipment.

This placement will give the successful candidate the opportunity to influence safety strategy and to practice various aspects of project management including; creating project plans, engaging multi functional teams, developing financial business cases and reporting on project status.

What you will be doing:

This role will give the successful candidate the opportunity to work with experienced safety professionals across Airbus and to influence the strategy to improve the safe use of a wide range of industrial equipment for injury prevention. It also includes working with various local production teams made up of Operations, Manufacturing Engineering and Safety to develop and deploy project plans to realise these improvements across the Broughton plant.

During this placement, the activities you may undertake will also include:

• Managing improvement projects aimed at optimizing the safety of personnel and the efficiency of machinery;
• Collaborating with transnational teams to identify best practices and implement them at the local level

Requirements:

• Studying towards a degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering, Occupational Safety, or equivalent;
• Nice to have Project Management skills and the ability to think strategically and translate improvement practices into local project plans;
• Ability to build business cases to justify any expenditure required to deliver the improvement projects;
• Collaborates well within a team, including working with a multistakeholder team;
• A good communication style to engage and influence people from different functions;
• Proficiency in the use of AI tools;
• Familiarity with Google Suite

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.

Contact

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Company:

Airbus Operations Limited

Employment Type:

Internship

Experience Level:

Student

Job Family:

Improvement & Performance Management

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