Undergraduate Placement Programme – Register Your Interest

MBDA’s Undergraduate Placement Programme offers penultimate-year students the chance to spend 12 months applying their university learning to live projects across business, engineering, software and manufacturing. With structured support, real responsibility and exposure to different specialist areas, the placement is designed to help you develop your skills, build confidence and explore where your career could take you. Your experience can also support professional development and may lead to a graduate offer after university.

About MBDA

At MBDA, we work together, for the future of defence. We support our nations by delivering essential military capabilities, both for today and the future. We are proud to be an award-winning employer and are proud of the growing diversity of our workforce. Our people are the ones who drive our constant innovation and deliver against challenging targets.

The Role

Over 12 months, you’ll work on exciting live projects in our business, engineering, software and manufacturing areas, applying the skills you learn at university to the real world. Depending on your placement, you’ll either focus on one specialist area or split your time into two five-month placements to experience different departments within your function.

Placement opportunities are available across a wide range of functions including Aerodynamics, Commercial, Change Management, Computer Vision and AI, Customer Support and Services, Electronics Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, Simulation and Modelling, Software Engineering, Systems Design Engineering and Weapon Systems Engineering.

Company Culture

You’ll get plenty of support with a buddy to help you settle in, on-the-job training, and our mentor scheme. Recruiting over 200 Early Careers members each year creates a strong community feel at MBDA. We put a strong focus on supporting each other, make work-life balance a reality through dynamic working policies and flexible benefits, and allow employees to give something back through volunteering and charity challenges.

Benefits and Perks

• Salary of £23,495 per year.
• Eligibility for the company bonus scheme.
• Buddy support to help you settle in.
• On-the-job training and access to a mentor scheme.
• Experience that can count towards professional qualifications.
• Opportunity to build your professional network across the business.
• Placements often lead to a graduate offer after university.

Location

There are opportunities available across Bristol, Stevenage and Bolton. 

Requirements

You’ll need to be studying towards an undergraduate degree in a relevant area, as listed on the job adverts, and be on track to graduate with a minimum 2:2 classification. The programme is open to university students in the penultimate year of their studies.

Click ‘apply now’ to go and register your interest with MBDA to hear when applications open for the September 2027 Undergraduate Placement Programme.