Mechanical Engineering - Melbourn, United Kingdom - PA Consulting

PA Consulting

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Melbourn, United Kingdom

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Company Description

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

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description:

This role is open to undergraduates in their penultimate year of university. Therefore graduating in 2025.**
Power Your Curiosity at PA
Joining us as an intern is the next step in starting your career.

Coming from a specialist background, we want you to be bold, stay curious and dive into the opportunities we have to offer.

Our Interns Make a Difference
The mechanical engineering team at PA use their core engineering knowledge to help ask the right questions at every stage of the development process:

We work with scientists to understand the fundamental of any new problem. Together we prototype, characterise and explore technologies and processes
By collaborating with designers and human factors experts we can pin down the form and function of new products
Engineers of all disciplines mechanical, electronic, software (and some in between) will come together to design, test, and build new products and systems
We use our industry knowledge to inform future technical strategies for clients and work with others in PA to provide clients with wider business solutions

The range of work performed at the Global Innovation and Technology Centre is broad and ever-changing

You might:

Develop a new food safe material that can survive being submerged
Assemble prototype test rigs to prove a new process is possible
Observe user interactions with a product to ensure it is intuitive
Capture high speed video of fine sprays to characterise nozzle performance

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

About You

Are credible and comfortable working with clients from a broad range blue chip and startup organisations
Can build strong relationships— with both clients and peers
Are able to combine their strong theoretical background, mechanical aptitude and practical skills to help solve complex realworld technical problems
Can take ownership of a technical problem, seeing it through to a working solution
Are collaborative, enthusiastic and passionate and work at their best in dynamic teams
Are open to change and have a growth mindset
Comfortable with hands on work in both a workshop and lab setting

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Qualifications:

Qualification
In addition, the following will also be beneficial but not essential:

Practical industry experience in an engineering, development or scientific role
Proficiency in 3D CAD systems; preferably SolidWorks

The Offer

A broad range of work that spans multiple sectors
The opportunity to experience all phases of development, from conceptualisation and theoretical design to handson building/prototyping and testing in our workshops
The opportunity to work closely with experienced and knowledgeable colleagues from across the design, applied science, software and engineering disciplines as you design, test, and build new products and systems
Be involved in creating future technology strategies, working with others across the wider PA, to provide clients with wider business solutions
You work base will be our Global Innovation and Technology Centre in Melbourn, Cambridge.
Full time
This role will start in June for 810 weeks. _Exact dates will be confirmed at offer stage._
Salary: £23,500 per annum

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.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity.

Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need.

When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity - bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. C