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About the Role
This 12-week IET-accredited development programme offers hands-on experience with one of TfL's engineering teams, working on live projects alongside specialist engineers. You will gain a broad grounding in engineering and an understanding of the business. The emphasis is on developing world-class engineers who aspire to become senior engineers and leaders of the future. You will undertake a single placement supporting reliable operations and enhancements of one of the world's leading transport networks and help to shape London’s future.
Responsibilities
- Undertake a single placement supporting reliable operations and enhancements of one of the world's leading transport networks.
- Help to shape London’s future.
- Gain first-hand experience of life as an engineer in TfL.
- Potentially support your future ambition of becoming a fully chartered engineer.
- Gain hands-on experience with one of our engineering teams.
- Work on live projects alongside specialist engineers.
- Gain a broad grounding of engineering.
- Gain a good understanding of what drives our business and how we deliver.
- Express a preference for one of the following streams on application: Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Technology Engineering.
Requirements
- Must ensure you are eligible for this scheme before applying.
- Must read through the eligibility criteria carefully and ensure eligibility before applying.
- Must take great care in reading and answering eligibility questions.
- Must be in your penultimate year of your degree.
- Must be on track to achieve a minimum of 2:2 BEng/BSc or MEng/MSc in electrical, electronic, systems or mechatronic engineering or a closely related subject accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
- Candidates on IET accredited pure Mechanical Engineering degree programmes will only be considered for the Systems Engineering stream.
- Offer will be subject to a satisfactory medical which may include but is not limited to: drugs and alcohol screening, eye test and hearing test.
- Must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the scheme, as at the start date.
- This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa scheme.
- If you do not have the right to work in the UK, or only have a right to work here for a limited time which is less than the duration of the scheme, TfL will be unable to sponsor you for this role.
- Must complete online assessments within an allocated time frame.
- Must complete online assessments within 1 week of receiving them.
- Must attend assessment centres (in-person or virtually, role dependent).
- Must attend the assessment centre for the Engineering and Technology Summer Placement scheme on 13th January 2027, in-person, in London.
Skills
- Electrical Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Technology Engineering
- Design of electric drive upgrades for trains
- Developing charging infrastructure for London’s incoming electric bus fleet
- Delivering transformational signalling upgrades
- Designing power network upgrades for renewable energy connections
- Systems Engineering and Systems Integration on major schemes
- Defining system architectures
- Determining requirements
- Managing opportunities to collaborate between projects
- Ensuring quality design is delivered to operating colleagues
- Using new and emerging technology to solve complex, technical problems
- Working on road or rail signalling and control systems
- Designing and testing infrastructure to support autonomous and connected vehicles
- Delivering operational solutions using augmented reality or artificial intelligence
- Ensuring systems and assets are secure from cybersecurity attacks
- Delivering modern communication networks including the rollout of mobile communications across the Underground.
Location
- London
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working (typically working from home no more than 50% of the time over a 4-week period)
- Full-time attendance (for some courses and placements)
- Normal office hours
- Occasional shifts to take part in night or weekend engineering activities
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Penultimate year of degree
- 2:2 BEng/BSc or MEng/MSc in electrical, electronic, systems or mechatronic engineering or a closely related subject accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
- IET accredited pure Mechanical Engineering degree programmes (considered for Systems Engineering stream only)
Salary/Compensations
- £27,029 pro rata, per annum. (in-line with the London Living Wage)
Benefits
- Free travel on the TfL network for you and a nominee who lives in the same household
- Discounted national rail and Eurostar travel
- 30 days Annual leave (Pro rata plus public and bank holidays)
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
About the Company
- TfL is at the heart of London’s decarbonisation strategy.
- The diversity of TfL’s activities means that we can offer a far wider range of placements than most other employers – we cover every mode of transport in London apart from aviation!
- Our Engineers focus on the assets that form the foundation of our transport system.
- London never stops and the engineering challenge which we face in modernising and upgrading our systems has been likened to undertaking open heart surgery on a patient while they are running a marathon!
- Our network plays a massive role in ensuring London can become a Net Zero Carbon city and as Engineers we help shape the decisions that will lead to this carbon reduction.
- Sustainability is intrinsic to TfL’s work ethos, and we ensure that we operate in a sustainable way to protect and regenerate the natural world.
- Much of what we do, directly contributes to the decarbonisation of London.
- TfL is a place that’s open to your ideas. Where you can make a tangible impact and see the positive results of your work on the people and places around you. It’s a place where you can thrive and achieve. Where you’re encouraged and enabled and empowered to feel pride in the work you do. We work together for a better London. A better place for everyone. Constantly improving and enhancing how we operate to shape a city of the future.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation.
- Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
- We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.
- In High Volume campaigns including Graduate, Apprentice and Intern recruitment the minimum criteria we set is achieving a pass mark in our first stage assessments, adopting a proportionate approach as part of the Disability Confident scheme.
- Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments for any stages of the application process.