About The Role
Assistant Design Manager 12 - Month Placement
Right across infrastructure,theresa requirement to not onlymaintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stageyoureat in your career, with usyoullhave an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly,funand respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
Aviation - Our Aviation team works across a wide range of specialist civil, mechanical and electrical engineering works including major international airports, regional airports and RAF airfields.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
Key Responsibilities
Large transport systems like railways and airports rely on more than technical engineering they depend ongood designthinking to make complex environments safe, usable,efficientand intuitive.
This 12-month industrial placement is aimed at Product Design students who want to apply their skills in real,safety-critical,user-focusedenvironments across the Rail and Aviation industries.
Youllwork on some of the UKs most complex infrastructure projects, supporting design teams and learning how design decisions shape passenger experience, operational efficiency andlong-termasset performance.
Where will you be working?
You will work across our Rail and Aviation teams, supporting projects that include: Major airports and airfield infrastructure
Rail stations,depotsand operational environments
Passenger-facingand operational systems
Safety-critical, regulated environments
These industries involve tight constraints, multiplestakeholdersand demanding users making them ideal contexts for strong product and systems designers.
What will you be doing?
As an Assistant Design Manager (Product Design) on placement, your focus will be on design coordination, usability and system thinking, rather than detailed engineering calculations.
Youllwork alongside Design Managers, engineers,architectsand construction teams to support the design process from concept through delivery.
Your work may include: Supporting coordination of multidisciplinary design teams (engineering, architecture, M&E)
Contributing toearly-stagedesign concepts andoptionstudies
Participating in design reviews with a focus on user experience, accessibility,safetyand clarity
Helping translate complex technical designs into understandable visuals,diagramsand presentations
Understanding how passenger, operator and maintainerneedsinfluence design decisions
Supporting design change control and tracking how requirements evolve over time
Visiting live sites to see how design decisions perform in real environments
Youllbe encouraged to bring a product design mindset, asking questions such as: Who uses this space or system, and how?
Is the design intuitive,legibleand robust?
How do safety, standards and constraints shapegood design?
How does design perform over its full lifecycle?
Who this placement is for
This placement is ideal if you are: Studying Product Design, Industrial Design, DesignEngineeringor a closely related discipline
Eligible for a 12-month industrial / sandwich placement
Interested in applyinghuman-centreddesign beyond consumer products
Curious about how design works in regulated,real-worldenvironments
Comfortable working collaboratively across disciplines
Skills in sketching, CAD, visual communication,prototypingor service design are welcomed, but no rail or aviation experience isrequired.
Whatyoullgain from the placement
Experience applying product design thinking to complex rail and aviation systems
Understanding of how infrastructure is designed for safety,usabilityand maintainability
Exposure to design constraints such as regulation, standards,costand programme
Insight into how designs move from concept to construction and operation
Mentoring from experienced design managers and engineers
Strong materialfor yourfinal-yearportfolio and graduate applications
High-performingplacement students may be considered for graduate roles or return placements upon completion of their degree.
Whatsin it for you?
Competitive placement salary Paid holidays
Structured mentoring and support throughout the year
Learning and development opportunities
Office-, site-andhybrid-basedexperience
Exposure to major national infrastructure projects
About us
We want to be an employer of choice anda great placeto work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference.Wereone of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours. Were? responsible and go further for our people, clients,communitiesand the planet
Were? open ?andseeknew and better ways of exceeding expectations
Were? together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
Were? ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whetheryourea trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our peoplebenefitfrom industry recognised programmes,trainingand development.
Itsan exceptional time to be a part of M Group.?
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