Placements are open to 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year Undergrads, MSc, and Postgraduate Students.
As a digital technology intern, you’ll be working on an exciting live project integrating new technologies into a manufacturing or engineering business. This is a paid role, offering you the opportunity to work for a top maker, and be given the chance to test out all your skills and knowledge gained at university. Plus, the placement will be tailored to align with your own career interests and needs.
Apply today, and you could gain a crucial stepping stone into your career as a maker or engineer. It’s the chance to turn theory into practice and get first-hand experience of how a UK manufacturing business works.
Parcours Velo are manufacturers of sophisticated and highly engineered cycle wheels for cyclist that are looking for performance and the edge over other wheel manufacturers. Parcours are a challenger brand doing things better and fairer than the rest of the market and make an aero wheelset that has proven engineering credentials and doesn’t cost the earth. They were the first to make aerodynamics accessible and take on overpriced options from established players, or under-engineered ones built to a price.
What you’ll be doing: Working alongside the management you will be designing and constructing a customer engagement framework that will integrate directly in Shopify to produce: • a highly trained AI agent processes to manage and inform the customer base • an interactive logistics and stock management system, to track quotation, order flows and physical stock within the warehouse. • design and deploy a digital wall board to view the company activity
Placement Details
Location: Goldalming, Surrey
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71
Start Date: ASAP
Forge Creative is a specialist furniture and product-design manufacturer based in Chichester, producing bespoke furniture and operating The Arboretum product line.
What You’ll Be Doing: Designing a manufacturing-focused engagement system Creating structured data models (enquiries, specs, BoMs, lead times) Developing demand-forecasting dashboards Mapping workflows and digitising operational processes Weekly collaboration with the founders
Placement Details
Location: Hybrid – Unit 5, The Workshops, Chichester
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Sunstorm Covers manufactures bespoke marine and industrial covers and is developing digital tools to support forecasting and planning.
What You’ll Be Doing: - Designing data structures and engagement workflows - Creating dashboards for forecasting and capacity planning - Modelling seasonal demand patterns - Supporting KPI design and WIP tracking
Placement Details
Location: Hybrid – Deacons Boatyard, Swanwick
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
A group company comprising of a leading yacht service provider, repair centre, and brokerage specialising in luxury vessels. From our origins maintaining Oyster and Swan yachts, we’ve expanded to deliver excellence across all premier sailing and motor yacht brands and a manufacturer in Gosport of Ribs (Rigid Inflatable Boats) and hard sided tenders – Superyacht Tenders, SOLAS Tenders, Commercial Boats and Recreational Ribs.
What you’ll be doing: Working alongside the management you will be designing and constructing a website using frameworks like Astra/Wordpress Working with advanced AI tools to rebuild and redefine a PHP management system. Scope and help set up an in-house scanning process and system for reverse engineering small components using the Revopoint Miraco Plus scanner.
Placement Details
Location: Swanwick, Hampshire
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Robert Nicholas is a specialist temporary works provider enabling access below the waterline for construction work to be delivered. We hire equipment to support this activity across the United Kingdom. We are developing our digital capability to improve efficiency in both our project delivery and equipment hire operations. We are looking for a motivated University Intern to support us in building digital systems for stock control and exploring opportunities for design automation. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in digital transformation in a construction and engineering context.
We are looking for a motivated University Intern to support us in building digital systems for stock control and exploring opportunities for design automation. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in digital transformation in a construction and engineering context.
Placement Details
Location: Bordon, Hampshire
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Nordell proposes the creation of a fully integrated digital quality system that connects APQP, Control Plans, Failure Modes and digital work instructions into one coherent, high-performing operational framework. Although Nordell already uses digital work instructions, they lack consistency, robust failure-mode content, and operator adoption. This project transforms those assets into a best-in-class system by embedding APQP logic, control plans and visual, video-supported operator instructions.
Responsible for redesigning work instructions, collecting video and visual data, embedding APQP and control plan logic, and building a repeatable digital process for Nordell.
Placement Details
Location: Worthing
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
We are a growing manufacturer, designer and installer of bus shelters with a small but dynamic workforce. We are looking for a motivated University Intern to join us for several months, supporting our transformation to a manufacturing resource programme, digital customer engagement and company processes. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a rapidly growing and develop practical skills in project management and system integrations.
Assisting the management with system mapping and preparation for system integration
Placement Details
Location: Southsea, Hampshire
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
We are a growing SIPs (Structural Insulated Panel) design and installation company with a small but dynamic design team. We are looking for a motivated University Intern to join us for several months, supporting our design, estimating, and project delivery teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a specialist area of sustainable construction and develop practical skills in BIM, design systems, and project workflows.
Assisting our design team (Revit + specialist SIPs plugin) with updating and maintaining our 2D detail library within Revit. As well as supporting design meetings with architects and clients and helping to improve and update design templates and systems.
Placement Details
Location: Bransgore, Hampshire
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Interactual Limited is a UK-based boutique design and engineering consultancy that specializes in new product development (NPD) and physical verification, helping start-ups and small businesses successfully transition physical hardware from early prototypes to scalable production. Founded in 2011 and located in Kingston upon Thames, the company reduces the risks associated with innovation by providing hands-on support across the entire hardware journey.
As our Digital Intern, you will play a key role in transitioning our internal processes from informal methods to a digital-first, modular architecture. The core of your project is to develop a scalable and agile Production & Quality Management (PQM) framework tailored for our high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) production. This framework will define digital roadmaps for integrated ERP/QMS solutions, enabling us to mitigate liability risks, scale our capacity flexibly without significant CAPEX, and lay the foundation for our new Manufacturing Implementation Consultancy service.
Placement Details
Location: Kingston upon Thames
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £14.80 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Precision Engineering Plastics (PEP) is a UK-based advanced injection moulding manufacturer with over 40 years of experience supplying high-quality, technically complex plastic components. The company specialises in insert moulding, over moulding, multi-material moulding, post machining, laser welding, and complex assemblies for demanding industrial applications.
The intern will support a key digital transformation initiative focused on capturing, structuring, and digitising PEP’s engineering and manufacturing knowledge.
Placement Details
Location: Enfield
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £14.80 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
The Digital Technology Intern will support The Toffee Shop Limited to transition from paper based and spreadsheet driven processes to the NotaZone digital manufacturing system.
The role will focus on practical implementation, data migration, and embedding new digital ways of working across production, stock control, and food safety compliance. The intern will work closely with operational staff to understand existing processes and translate these into NotaZone workflows, ensuring the system reflects how the business operates day to day.
Placement Details
Location: Cumrbia
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £13.45 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
The Client is a UK-based manufacturer of flexographic pre-press equipment, supplying plate mounting and proofing systems to global printing and packaging markets. As part of ongoing product innovation, the business is exploring opportunities to enhance machine performance, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiency.
This role will focus on replacing an existing industrial PC-based vision control solution with a more cost-effective, energy-efficient embedded alternative. The successful candidate will contribute to the design, development, integration, and testing of a prototype system that combines embedded hardware, machine vision, and user interface development. This is an excellent opportunity for a student or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in embedded systems, image processing, and industrial technology development within a real engineering environment.
Placement Details
Location: Greater Manchester
Duration: 300 Hours
Salary: £13.45 per hour
Start Date: ASAP