2027 Industrial Placement - Industrial Designer - Bray (Ireland)

PA Consulting Group; Bray; Remote; EUR 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Community initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

Job summary

PA Consulting Group in Bray, Ireland, invites undergraduates for a 12-month Industrial Design placement starting July 2026. You’ll join a multidisciplinary team creating future consumer, professional and healthcare products, contributing to research, concepts, and prototyping.

Expect hands-on design work, mentorship, and exposure to real client projects in a collaborative studio near Bray seafront, with opportunities to learn AI and XR trends and develop strong design skills.

Qualifications

• On track to gain a relevant product/industrial design degree with an industrial placement.
• Experience with 3D CAD and rendering tools such as Rhino, SolidWorks and Keyshot or equivalents.
• Strong hand sketching and craft modelling skills.
• Good eye for aesthetics and user experience.
• Proficiency with digital tools (Miro, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Collaborative and organised with a passion for learning and new challenges.
• Understanding of engineering and manufacturing principles is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design research to gain user insights and inspire creative solutions.
• Contribute to outstanding product concepts across a wide range of industries.
• Develop holistic user experiences with a sustainability mindset.
• Hone your craft across freehand sketching, digital tools, and physical modelling.
• Collaborate openly with global colleagues and clients, learning from their expertise.
• Present your ideas and design work to stakeholders, refining concepts with feedback.

Skills

3D CAD

Rhino

SolidWorks

Keyshot

Hand sketching

Craft modelling

Miro

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Collaboration

Education

Undergraduate in product/industrial design with industrial placement

Tools

Rhino

SolidWorks

Keyshot

Job description

IDA Business Park, Southern Cross Road, Irishtown, Bray, A98Y6W0, Co. Dublin, Ireland, Bray A98Y6W0, IE

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Are you ready to develop your creative skills and contribute to breakthrough product design? As an Industrial Design Intern in our studio in beautiful Co. Wicklow, Ireland, you’ll join a fantastic team of researchers, designers, engineers, and prototypers helping to create future products for leading consumer, professional, and healthcare brands.

Why apply for our Industrial Design Placement?

• Get hands-on experience contributing to real client projects and internal innovations.
• Work in our fully-equipped, collaborative studio, workshops and labs, designed to maximise creativity and rapid prototyping.
• Benefit from mentoring, practical learning, and network with expert colleagues.
• Be part of a forward-looking, multidisciplinary team creating impactful, category-defining solutions.
• Enjoy a unique work environment situated close to Bray seafront and minutes from Dublin City Centre.

What you can expect

• Participate in design research to gain user insights and inspire creative solutions.
• Contribute to outstanding product concepts across a wide range of industries.
• Develop holistic user experiences with a sustainability mindset.
• Hone your craft across freehand sketching, digital tools, and physical modelling.
• Collaborate openly with global colleagues and clients, learning from their expertise.
• Present your ideas and design work to stakeholders, refining your concepts with feedback.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies such as AI and XR.

Assessment process

First Stage Assessments:

• Application form

Final Stage Assessments:

• Virtual interview to discuss your portfolio and experience
• In-person interview at our Bray studio

Qualifications

This role is open to undergraduates with an industrial placement within their course structure. If you intend to return to university after the internship to complete an MSc, you will also be eligible for this position.

• On track to gain a relevant product/industrial design degree and seeking an industrial placement as part of your course.
• Skilled in 3D CAD and rendering (e.g. Rhino, SolidWorks, and Keyshot or equivalent).
• Confident in hand sketching and craft modelling.
• Strong aesthetic sensibility and keen eye for user experience.
• Proficiency with relevant digital tools (e.g. Miro, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Collaborative, organised, and passionate about learning and new challenges.
• Understanding of engineering and manufacturing principles is desirable.

The Offer

• Full-time, 12-month placement starting July 2026 (exact date confirmed at offer).
• Salary: £28,570 per annum.
• Supportive mentorship, a vibrant team culture, and the chance to develop your skills working on impactful products.

A career at PA is what you make of it — so power your curiosity and prepare to make an impact

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus

Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.