Year in Industry Placement - Electrical Engineering

Job description

United Infrastructure is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business, focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects, across the utility and social infrastructure sectors.

Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face.

Our company is split into two business areas:

Utility Infrastructure – Our team of Utility Infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power and telecoms infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators.

Social Infrastructure - Our team of Social Infrastructure specialists revitalise homes and communities by carrying out a wide range of work, from retrofit to refurbishment, and maintenance.

We are looking for a Undergraduate Placement Student to join our Utility Infrastructure - Power team, for a 12 month industry placement.

United in the way we think – united in the way we work. Join us at United Infrastructure and work in partnership with our clients to deliver critical infrastructure across the UK. 

As a Placement Student at United Infrastructure you will learn something new every day and develop your skills and knowledge in the construction industry in a supportive environment with an approachable team. You’ll get a generous holiday allowance, Christmas shutdown, and a tailored benefits portal that allows you to choose the right benefits for you.

Day-to-day, you’ll be assisting the team providing engineering support for major infrastructure projects such as delivering bespoke private HV networks, supporting renewable energy connections, or executing large-scale utility infrastructure projects.

You’ll be supported to develop both professionally and personally, and will also network with our wider early careers population through activities with colleague networks and can get involved in things such as our innovation challenge, volunteering and STEM engagement activities.

In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to:

• be in your penultimate year at University, and on track to achieve a minimum 2:2 in an Electrical Engineering discipline.
• be able to commit to a 12-month Industrial Placement that will begin in summer 2026.
• have good IT skills and able to use Microsoft Office packages e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel etc.
• have good organisation, time management and communication skills.
• have a full driving licence or be actively working towards achieving this and expected to obtain prior to summer 2026.
• able to work full-time from our office located in Warrington as this role is not suitable for hybrid working.
  
  

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are proud to be a disability confident employer, please contact our Early Careers team at earlycareers@unitedinfrastructure.com if you would like to apply via this scheme, or to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process so we can discuss how we can support you.

If you are ready to be part of our expanding team and contribute to our success, please click the I’m interested button and submit an application. We recommend you apply as early as possible as we may close this vacancy if we receive sufficient applications.

Join us at United Infrastructure today and be part of our mission to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to the complex infrastructure needs of the UK.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Warrington

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Published at

22-02-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English