About the role
Are you interested in a 13 month engineering placement June 2026 with one of the UK’s largest energy producers? Our Engineering and Outage group has an exciting industrial placement opportunity, and are looking for a motivated team member with excellent interpersonal skills!
RWE's Gas Engineering and Outage (E&O) Group supports our European RWE portfolio in the UK, Holland and Germany, we support the outages and projects across the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) Power plants, within this group, our C&I (Control & Instrumentation) Team are responsible for the management of all associated aspects of work across these disciplines.
During your placement, you will:
1. You will be responsible for providing key engineering support to ensure our fleet of power stations can be operated safely, efficiently and with the greatest possible commercial flexibility.
2. The placement may be based at any of the following existing RWE Generation sites: Pembroke, Staythorpe, Didcot, Little Barford.
3. You will undertake data analysis to diagnose problems to help in both long and short-term projects.
4. Gain important on-site experience and valuable hands-on practical skills and training.
5. Support development of the asset integrity processes and systems and deliver on plant improvement projects and plant investigations.
6. Assist in delivery work packages in large station outages.
7. You will receive on-the-job training, attend courses and workshops for your personal development. You will gain first-hand technical industrial experience and transferrable skills that are desired by all employers.
Job Requirements and Experience
8. Ideally, you should be pursuing a BEng or MEng Engineering or Science degree at an undergraduate level.
9. Your degree should include an industrial placement year to meet the requirements for this role.
10. Willingness to travel around the UK and potentially Europe, with overnight stays away from your home location. Expenses will be covered for this.
11. Please include both a CV and a cover letter when applying.
Your Benefits
12. A salary of £25,250 per annum
13. A personal retirement savings plan – if you put in 5% we will top up by a further 10% and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary
14. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro-rata
15. Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave and retail savings scheme
16. Occupational Health support services for your wellbeing
17. Access to our employee assistance programme in times of need
To view a preview of our benefits site ‘YourHub’ and see some of the other benefits we have on offer please visit https://www.edenred.co.uk/campaigns/rwe-yourhub/index.html
Apply with just a few clicks: ad code 90414.application period: 31.10.2025 or sooner if we receive sufficient applications. Any questions? Lee.clark@