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Employ.ed on Campus internships are ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK.
The School of Engineering seeks to appoint up to 2 Remote Labs Project Interns. These positions will report to the Technical Services Manager (TSM) within the School and will work as part of a small team of technical, research and academic staff through summer 2023 on site at Kings Buildings.
These roles are UE03 (or equivalent) and are available on a fixed term basis for 10 weeks.
The Opportunity
The School’s digital education innovations in remote laboratories are important for improving the student experience in a cost-effective manner. Their development proceeded at an accelerated rate over the last few years owing to the pandemic and the associated demand to remotely deliver interactive laboratory experiments and experiences to students.
The School of Engineering is seeking to appoint two motivated and talented interns to join a skilled team of staff in the design, development and manufacture of remote laboratories. The current phase of the project requires a review of existing designs, development of new designs for the boxes and experiments and documentation of processes and procedures.
Working with the technical team based in the Electronics Teaching Labs (Kivlin Suite; Fleeming Jenkin Building) and Mechanical Engineering Teaching Labs (Sanderson Building) on the King’s Buildings campus and the remote laboratories project team (including, Prof. Drysdale) the interns’ primary objective will be to contribute to furthering this exciting project through engineering design and manufacture.
These internships offer the chance for student interns to acquire significant hands-on technical work experience as part of a team of highly skilled technical staff in support of this exciting and innovative project. It is anticipated that while the interns will collaborate on certain activities, each intern will be assigned a specific area of work that fits with their interests, knowledge and experience.
A positive and flexible approach is a requirement of these roles, with interns participating in a range of activities across the School of Engineering’s laboratories and workshops.
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.
Your Skills and Attributes
- Hands-on experience working on projects in a laboratory/workshop environment (mechanical and/or electronics; via study, work or hobbies)
- Interest in technology.
- Willingness and ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Proactive and can-do approach.
- Good inter-personal and communication skills.
Additional Information
Employ.ed on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools. It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK.
You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before. Further information about Employ.ed on Campus can be found on our Employ.ed on campus webpages.
What you can expect
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
As well as great work experience, the Careers Service provides supporting resources, this is combined with a framework to support the development of participants’ employability and self-reflection with an Edinburgh Award as part of the internship.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Interviews will be held Thursday 30 March 2023 (subject to confirmation). If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.
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The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
