Kick-start your career with a range of opportunities across the business
NCC offers a range of early career opportunities across the business, from engineering, manufacturing, design and operations through to finance and procurement, HR and communications.
You will gain invaluable experience working on a wide variety of projects, and have access to some of the most experienced and knowledgeable experts in their field.
We offer a range of early careers opportunities from Apprenticeships, NCC Graduate Scheme, Year In Industry Placements to Work Placements and Internships.
Connect with our Early Careers team at NCC to find out more about career opportunities.
Apprenticeships
Kick-start your engineering career with our Operations or Engineering Apprenticeships. It combines on-the-job training at the NCC’s world-leading research and development facility in Bristol, and classroom learning so you can earn while you learn.
NCC Graduate Scheme
Our graduate programme is a two-year rotational programme that offer experience in engineering capabilities and project management. You will have the opportunity to work towards chartership with our Monitored Professional Development Scheme, as well as receive technical and soft skills training, including management skills. We offer you the chance to work directly with everyone from global customers to small start-up businesses across a variety of sectors.
Year in Industry placements
Spend a year working with us in a paid position alongside your degree and have the opportunity to get involved in a diverse range of exciting projects. You'll be a central part of our team and have the opportunity to work with world-leading large companies to groundbreaking, disruptive SMEs that could be your future prospective employer.
Work placements and internships
Join us for a summer or a year and work alongside world-leading experts in the composites industry, gaining experience in one of our many capability or project management teams.
Work Experience
STEM Work Experience is a week-long event held at the NCC where Key Stage 4 students (ages 14-16 years) learn about different engineering disciplines, the stages of an engineering project and what a 'day in the life' of an engineer looks like. This is completed through classroom styled lessons, interactive sessions and practical sessions in our workshop. It aims to inspire the next generation of engineers, not just in the world of composites!
STEM for schools
School outreach aims to show young people that engineering is an exciting, creative field and demonstrate the many routes you can take to become an engineer. We want to change the common perception of an engineer and show young people that they are capable of becoming an engineer in the future.
For primary schools we run yearly school outreach sessions with hands on design and build activities currently focusing on Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11 years). In the team, we plan activities and send a couple of engineers per class to the school to run lessons, half days, or full days.
For secondary schools we encourage ad-hoc requests for schools to visit and tour the NCC, network with our engineers, and hear about the work we do.
STEM for organisations
We work with organisations of all natures to widen the impact of our STEM outreach. This can include collaborating with STEM outreach charities and other businesses to plan and run events at a larger scale, to help more young people discover the joy of STEM. If you are interested in working with us, or are looking for volunteers for outreach events, please get in touch.