Industrial Placement 2026 - Digital Technology Infrastructure

Digital Technology Infrastructure Placement Student

Location: Wolverhampton

Contract: 1-year industrial placement

Start Date: July 2026

Salary: £23,500 per annum

What do we offer?

• Competitive placement salary.
• Opportunity to participate in community and STEM projects.
• Hands-on experience in Digital Technology within the aerospace sector, working with cutting-edge infrastructure and transformation projects.
• A supportive and collaborative team environment where you ll learn from experienced professionals and gain exposure to real-world IT challenges.
• Development of core technical, communication and project management skills to prepare you for your future career.

What does the role look like?

We re offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated degree student to join our Aerospace Digital Technology Infrastructure Team for a year-long placement. This role provides hands-on experience supporting the digital backbone that enables cutting-edge aerospace engineering, manufacturing, and operations.

You ll work alongside experienced IT and engineering professionals to help design, maintain, and improve digital infrastructure systems that support the development and delivery of advanced aerospace technologies.

This is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your personal development and experience exciting challenges, while building the foundations for your career in Digital Technology.

What will your day-to-day responsibilities look like?

• Support the maintenance, monitoring, and performance tuning of key IT infrastructure systems (servers, networks, storage, and cloud environments).
• Assist in digital transformation initiatives, including migration to cloud services and automation of infrastructure processes.
• Contribute to the development of digital tools and dashboards for system monitoring and reporting.
• Help ensure cybersecurity best practices are embedded within infrastructure operations.
• Participate in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of infrastructure-related incidents.
• Support the implementation of Digital Technology projects across the Wolverhampton and Banbury facilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Digital Operations and End User Support).
• Assist with compliance improvement and process standardisation opportunities.
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual compliance requirements.
• Contribute to automation and technology refresh projects (e.g., printers, meeting rooms, conference room assets).

What will you bring to the role?

Essential skills:

• Currently enrolled in a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering (with IT focus), or a related discipline.
• Strong interest in digital technology, infrastructure systems, and how they enable aerospace innovation.
• Basic understanding of networking, operating systems (Windows/Linux), and/or cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.
• Eagerness to learn and contribute to a fast-paced, technology-driven environment.

Desirable skills:

• Familiarity with scripting or programming (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
• Experience with RHEL and Wintel operating systems.
• Awareness of cybersecurity principles or ITIL service management.
• Understanding of CI/CD, automation tools, or DevOps concepts.

About Us:

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.
Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.