Project Management Summer Placement

What you’ll be doing

In this 10-week long summer placement, you’ll explore commercial, safety, and risk & opportunity management techniques, while gaining exposure to various functions, including Construction, Planning, Strategy, Operations and Estimating.

Contributing to high-profile projects, you’ll prepare presentations and reports, manage important contracts, and build relationships with stakeholders. You’ll gain basic engineering knowledge along the way. We’ll show you how to sharpen your interpersonal skills, enabling you to communicate with people at all levels, and ensuring everything stays on track for success.

Who you are matters

You’ll need to be in your penultimate year at university, and on track to achieve at least a 2:2 in any degree subject.

We look for inquisitive self-starters with a strong work ethic and the confidence to challenge how things are done. You should have an eye for detail with the ability to approach problems with a calm approach. Other qualities we’re looking for include:

• Strong organisation skills
• Good Teamwork
• Ability to empathise and strong emotional intelligence
• Strong personal resilience

What you’ll get out of it

We’re passionate about developing the next generation of talent that will come into our industry, and that means we’ll ensure you’re surrounded by supportive colleagues and receive coaching from senior staff.

We invest in our summer placement students because we believe they hold the potential to become the future of our business. Over the 10-weeks, you’ll get a rounded experience of what it takes to work in Project Management at Network Rail. Impress us, and we’ll consider you for next year’s graduate scheme.

Our Application Process

Once you’ve made the decision to join us at Network Rail, you’ll want to know more about our application process. We’ve outlined the main steps you’ll take as part of your application journey below:

1. Application Form
   This form collects the information we need to ensure you meet our minimum criteria.
2. Online Assessment
   This is an assessment presenting you with scenarios to assess how you work. As part of this we’ll ask you to complete a video interview designed to help us learn more about you and your interests.
3. Assessment Centre
   These will be virtual or in-person, depending on the scheme you apply to. The day consists of some activities that will enable you to demonstrate your suitability for the scheme.
4. Outcome
   We’ll let you know the outcome of your application as soon as all the assessment centres for your scheme are complete. If you are successful, we’ll move you onto our onboarding experience.