Engineering and Scientific Undergraduate Placements
There’s much more to an undergraduate placement at British Sugar.
Year in Industry – 12 month Engineering Placements
All Placement opportunities are now Closed.
What are you looking to get from your Year in Industry? We offer you great exposure to a wide variety of operations from the start!
During your year with us, you will be involved in a diverse range of activities that naturally reflect the sheer degree of diversity across engineering.
You'll have every opportunity to use your engineering knowledge to solve manufacturing problems. You could find yourself fixing and maintaining our state-of-the-art equipment. And far from being an invisible member of the team, you'll be presenting your ideas to managers and influencing important business decisions.
We see engineering placements as a two-way interaction. You'll get as much from the year as you're prepared to put in. And if you're enthusiastic and keen to learn, the experience will stand you in very good stead for your future career.
Take a look at what a few students have said about our placements…
Mechanical Engineering
This role is now closed for applications.
Location: 3 x placement opportunities at Central Office, Peterborough + further placement opportunities at other sites across the country
Salary: £15,000
We have a number of current engineering challenges – real engineering challenges that you will have input into and in many cases leadership of, whether that be ensuring the reliability of our mechanical handling plant or having a significant impact in reducing our multi-million pound energy bill. In addition to the machines used for processing the sugar beet into white sugar, every factory also features its own boiler house and power plant as well as extensive effluent treatment systems.
Two previous students have won the DIS prize for their placement work at British Sugar in recent years.
Process Engineering
This role is now closed for applications.
Location: A placement opportunity at Central Office, Peterborough + a further placement opportunity at our Bury St Edmunds site.
Salary: £15,000
Our operations encompass almost all of the standard chemical engineering text book unit operations plus more besides. Consequently, we are looking for Chemical Engineering undergraduates, or undergraduates for closely related disciplines, who are keen to be involved in the real engineering challenges that our business generates. These can range from process modelling to hands on commissioning, with opportunities for process systems design, plant optimisation and financial analysis. In fact if you do join us, to reflect this range of involvement, on your first day you will be allocated a PC as well as being issued with a pair overalls and safety shoes! You will be under the mentorship of experienced Chemical Engineers to support your technical competence and ‘can do’ attitude.
Please note that because of the nature of the work, it is essential that applicants for the position at our Central Office, Peterborough hold a current driving licence.
Science Placement
This role is now closed for applications.
Location: British Sugar Wissington Factory, Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
Salary: £15,000
You will be a chemistry undergraduate or an undergraduate from a closely related discipline and you will join our Operations Services Science team, which provides scientific and technical support to British Sugar and its associated companies. This position involves providing scientific support across the range of our business activities.
The work will be wide ranging and may include factory process troubleshooting, ensuring that we meet our environmental commitments, evaluation and introduction of new process techniques. In fact anything that a dynamic operations environment can produce.
The placement trainee, under the mentorship of a senior scientist, will be exposed to a stimulating and varied environment that will provide opportunity to develop the skills for a successful scientific career in industry.
Please note that because of the nature of the work, it is essential that applicants for the Science Placement at Wissington factory hold a current driving licence.