Project Engineering Twelve Month Undergraduate Placement

Department: Projects

Location: Portsmouth

Description

CMS2 is a specialist equipment manufacturer supplying maritime atmosphere control systems and life of system support services. We are experts in enabling high availability atmosphere management systems to generate breathable air for submariners, allowing boats to remain underwater for long periods of time. We do this by combining over sixty years of expertise with the latest technology and processes to design, build and support high quality systems and solutions.

We are looking for a Project Engineering placement student to join our team in Portsmouth for a twelve-month period. To commence in August 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in a forward-thinking team, who are working on sharing innovative solutions or manufacturing bespoke engineering systems. In return, you will be joining a company who are growing and looking to provide you with the opportunity to gain some excellent experience to support your future career. We will support you in expanding your skills and capabilities and the team around you. We may also be able to offer some part time work during the final year of university and if we have space a graduate position upon graduation.

Key Responsibilities

The Role

To assist the project engineers on a project working closely to ensure technical content is delivered to our customers requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work under the direction of the Project Engineers to ensure that activities undertaken align with the customer requirements and project deliverables.
• Provide information to the project engineers and project managers, enabling accurate project planning, including providing detail of work packages, breaking down the tasks and estimates of the scale of the work required to complete the project.
• Assist in the design and development activities relating to the project.
• Create and maintain project Bill of materials.
• Provide assistance to the project engineers in customer communications.
• Assist in the tracking of activities to project plans and budgets, assisting with the reporting to the Project Managers on progress.
• Provide assistance to the project engineers in technical support for procurement, production and quality throughout the project lifecycle to ensure timely response to action items.
• Follow CMS2 processes and procedures relating to the project activities.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

About You

To deliver this role you will be:

• Studying for an engineering degree ( Mechanical / Electrical / Chemical )
• Flexible, enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work well under own initiative.
• Able to build long-term successful client partnerships, both internally and externally
• Able to interpret and understand engineering drawings.
• Strong presentation skills, confident speaker and professionally presented.

Nice to have but not a necessity:

• Experience of working on projects.
• Adept with PC software applications (Word, Excel etc).
• Decision-making / problem solving skills.
• Practical competence in mechanical assembly
• Able to negotiate and influence others.
• Previous experience of an ERP system
• Knowledge of ISO9000 or a similar QA system
• Experience within a lean manufacturing environment

If you are interested in apply for this role, you must have:

• Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK.
• Candidates will need to undergo an internal BPSS check prior to gaining site access.
• Candidates will also need to either hold a current SC clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check (SC level) upon starting their employment with the company.
• To gain SC clearance you will normally need at least 5 years’ UK residency.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary along side a comprehensive benefits package