For students and recent graduates. This is an opportunity like no other.
As a digital technology intern, you’ll be working on an exciting live project integrating new technologies into a manufacturing or engineering business. You’ll get paid £5,760 across 480-hours as you work for a top maker, and be given the chance to test out all your skills and knowledge gained at university. Plus, the placement will be tailored to align with your own career interests and needs.
Apply today, and you could gain a crucial stepping stone into your career as a maker or engineer. It’s the chance to turn theory into practice and get first-hand experience of how a UK manufacturing business works.
Our client is a manufacturing group that provides fast track, just in time production to brands, retailers and wholesalers. They manufacture a diverse range of print and textile products which are marketed under four product brands. The company has built its reputation as the manufacturing and fulfilment partner of choice for online retailers serving consumers with a diverse range of “made to measure” home products including window blinds, printed matting and digitally printed textiles.
The project will focus on data management across the business, reviewing their current systems, Xero, Zoho, Google sheets and in-house bespoke solutions, considering how they link together, or don’t in some instances. It should also aim to identify the holes where they do not generate or use the data available. The output of the project will help them invest wisely in a robust, integrated platform for gathering, storage, and controlling data that supports accurate and timely reporting and minimises further cyber threats.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
A fibreglass moulding company, established for over 30 years. Creating applications for GRP mouldings for most industries. More widely known in the automotive trade supplying many products to the commercial vehicle industry and offer large-scale production capacity producing high quality GRP mouldings (fibreglass) to customer requirements. The in-house pattern making facilities gives the capability to work closely with the customer during the development stage of new products, ensuring that any changes can be made prior to the moulds being manufactured. Specialising in moulding quality GRP products to bespoke requirements.
Implement a digital design function including CAD and CAD/CAM capabilities Transform a paper-based design process into a digital design process (CAD) with associated benefits to automate designs into manufacture via integrated software (CAD/CAM). This fits in with the strategy of digitalisation to keep the company competitive in the market and meet customer demands. The systems to be implemented are likely to be Solidworks and SolidCAM or other similar CAD/CAM systems First 4 weeks •Learn the current paper design process by working with employees •Implement the new CAD/CAM software systems in-house and set them up in the best configuration to work with the design jobs •Begin to digitise existing paper designs Weeks 5 – 8 •Begin knowledge transfer/upskilling employees in using the new CAD system •Using a train, the trainer approach, assist current employees to continue work on digitising existing paper designs Weeks 9 – 12 •Begin knowledge transfer/upskilling employees in using the new CAM system •Using a train, the trainer approach, assist current employees to process design work through to machining using the new system
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
Our client is an owner-managed textile business based in Stockport. The company was established in 1999 and now employs over 100 FTEs. They set out to be the UK’s first one stop shop in the garment sector, bringing together all the key garment finishing processes including labelling, printing and embroidery together in one business. The company has now been supplying Britain’s businesses with branded work wear and promotional clothing for 20 years and more recently has opened routes to export sales into Europe.
The proposal of this project is to adopt a proof of concept bar code scanner that will create a “box list” digitally. This will follow the example case study shown on the digitalshoestring.com website where a barcode scanner and database was implemented for less than £1000. This project should be a great real-life application of technology and will provide the basis to engage further down the line in building out a solution to remove the manual systems causing unnecessary data entry.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
Our client is a privately-owned family business celebrating its 43rd year. From humble beginnings as a one-man-band making wrought-iron gates, they now employ around 80 staff as a subcontract steelwork manufacturer to a wide range of sectors including rail, defence, office furniture, automotive, and cycling to name a few.
The intern would support the implementation of the SFDC system and create the analysis tools required to close the feedback loop in their newly digitised factory. The goal is digital capacity planning for their manufacturing plant.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Lancashire
Start Date: ASAP
The company is a multi-disciplinary creative studio. Creating objects, structures, and experiences in the form of large-scale artworks, public art installations, bespoke sculptural commissions, interiors, custom made furniture art, as well as design style experiences and brand promotional objects. They have always had a commitment to combine traditional handcraft techniques with more modern cutting-edge technologies. This allows the opportunity to explore new concepts in the world of art and design, to explore the boundaries between art and design by using them to tell a story and produce pieces that are site specific and unique.
One of their core values is that of combining traditional hand-crafted processes with the latest in technological advancements. Having a skilled intern who can look at the machinery and push its capabilities to its full potential would be a fantastic asset. Successful candidate should be able to understand the extent of the possibilities that the automated machinery can reach, to work with the studio in developing new products utilising the capabilities of the machinery.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
The company is a multi-disciplinary creative studio. Creating objects, structures, and experiences in the form of large-scale artworks, public art installations, bespoke sculptural commissions, interiors, custom made furniture art, as well as design style experiences and brand promotional objects. They have always had a commitment to combine traditional handcraft techniques with more modern cutting-edge technologies. This allows the opportunity to explore new concepts in the world of art and design, to explore the boundaries between art and design by using them to tell a story and produce pieces that are site specific and unique.
One of our core values is that of combining traditional hand-crafted processes with the latest in technological advancements. Having a skilled intern who can look at the machinery and operate it to its full potential would be a fantastic asset. Successful candidate should be able to understand the extent of the possibilities that the automated machinery can reach, to develop new products depending on the capabilities of the machinery, but also be able to use it as a tool to enhance the scope of manufacturing and design ideas for bespoke installations. Help to create a circular economy within the business by using the machinery to its utmost potential. Our ideal scenario would be for the robot to ensure we continue our sustainable path as a designer and manufacturer and hopefully enhance this with the products and processes that will be able to be implemented due to the robotic machinery. We would like to utilise the plastic extruder to contribute to the ideal situation of the business having a circular economy full time.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
The company are an online retailer of own-branded skincare and cosmetics, who are moving towards manufacturing in-house. They distribute and retail a range of skincare, haircare, and shaving solutions that are kind to you, your skin, and the planet. Currently they supply predominantly to consumers via their website and wish to scale up via retailers and distributors.
The client is looking to create an A-Frame picking machine that will be used by the logistics team to pick the order contents and therefore improve speed and accuracy. Such a machine will greatly improve the picking performance and accuracy which in turn will increase customer satisfaction by reducing despatching time and errors. The work plan: 1. Liaise with the company CTO to establish the requirements 2. Review an existing Proof-of-Concept machine 3. Discuss possible design improvements 4. Extend and improve upon the machine so it can handle many products per dispenser (currently limited to around 5 due to lack of power in the motors) 5. Scale up the machine so it can support many SKUs (Dispensers) 6. Integrate the picking machine with the digital ordering system.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
A unique business that combines leading edge plating technologies with traditional machining capabilities that are rarely found in modern manufacturing but are still essential to strategic industries in the UK and elsewhere. Specialising in the design, manufacture, and remanufacture, of high-performance heat transfer rolls for many industrial applications. Heat transfer rolls provide temperature control by circulating heated or cooled fluid through the inside of the roll chamber. Roll design and configuration of the internal spirals play a major role in the performance of heat transfer rolls. The company can advise on the design and method of manufacture of its customers’ rolls to ensure optimum performance and efficiency. Using processes such as electroplating, precision grinding, polishing, and inspection, the company manufacturers and repairs rolls to extremely tight tolerances.
To study the plating processes (chrome, nickel and copper), to measure all inputs, to study the effect of the inputs on the outcome, to control the inputs and to automate the inputs. The study should follow a structured methodology, such as Design of Experiments (DoE).
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
The client design and deliver toolmaking and provide injection moulding services. Their portfolio of clients is broad, but their key markets include defence, automotive and other industrial blue-chip customers. In addition to their injection moulding services, through their class-leading, in house tool room they commission over 60 Injection Mould tools every year and all are covered by the companies ground-breaking 10-year warranty. They are extremely quality conscious, and system focused.
Investigate and recommend best practice programmes to support: 1) Proactive approach to packaging design, leading to reduced costs, less errors. Whilst the choice of potential commercial software solutions is limited, at least one solution has already been identified that warrants further investigation and will form the starting point of the proof of value exercise. 2) Automation of quotation and other processes using DriveWorks add on to Solidworks CAD system. Whilst the software extension to SolidWorks is well established (there are 3 levels of solution), the merits of each and relevance to current and future needs will form part of the evaluation process.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Greater Manchester
Start Date: ASAP
The company is a family-owned industrial roofing and canopy manufacturer who has been in operation for over 30 years. At their manufacturing facility in Birchwood, Warrington, they design and manufacture a range of roof glazing products and fabricated canopies for use in rail, education, retail, and healthcare. Primarily canopy products are manufactured from aluminium sections. Their roof glazing products can be supplied in polycarbonate and glass with polycarbonate being the main glazing that they promote. Their vision is to use technology to automate the standard elements of what they do within their manufacturing processes, which will allow them to focus on adding value through bespoke manufacture.
The project is to review all current connection details for their canopies with a view to improving the ease of manufacturing. e.g engineering out welds where appropriate and implementing / improving mechanical fixes. The successful candidate will be responsible for reviewing the overall product design of their prefabricated panel system to aide automation of manufacturing processes.
Placement Details
Duration: 480 hours (full-time, part-time or flexible)
Salary: £12.00 p/h (£5,760 per placement)
Location: Cheshire and Warrington
Start Date: ASAP