As part of Bentley's annual Early Careers intake, you'll join a community of around 93 trainees including Industrial Placements, Graduates, and Apprentices. During your placement, you'll be based at our Bentley Campus "Dream Factory". Alongside hands-on work experience, you'll also benefit from:

CSR and outreach activities
Opportunities to participate in charity events, community projects, and social committees
Masterclasses, development workshops, and social events
Inclusivity networks and peer support groups
Placements and rotations across different areas of the business that interest you, As an Industrial Placement Student at Bentley, you will play a key part in Bentley's journey to create extraordinary vehicles for our customers. Based out of our state-of-the-art headquarters in Crewe, you will:
Have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts in virtual vehicle development on a diverse range of strategic projects including multi-physics simulation and the application of AI;
Gain understanding of the broad strategic importance of simulation and exposure to cutting edge virtual development technologies;
Organise and participate in immersion events including the Bentley senior leadership team to communicate progress towards the strategic vision for virtual development.
Gain experience working with Vehicle Concepts and Chief Technical Engineers supporting new product delivery
Co-leading Virtual Vehicle Strategy contributing with ideas and innovation trends, aligned with business strategy;
Exploring opportunities to maximise the impact of virtual development working with cross functional vehicle verification leads.
Develop and deploy new technologies and methods aligned to Virtual Vehicle Strategic vision - finding issues earlier, accelerating development, and reducing physical testing;
Working with vendors and Group partners to evaluate new developments in tools and methods, and fast track high impact virtual capability;
Co-ordinate and facilitate weekly Vehicle Physics technical review

Be open minded and inquisitive, whilst planning and prioritising the workload to work effectively with others;
Be tenacious and resilient, but also adaptable to the need of others;
Take ownership of decisions and strive for the best outcomes;
Good communication and presentation skills;
Problem solving, time management and organisational skills
Hands on experience of simulation and usage of AI / ML is advantageous

As an Industrial Placement you will have access to the following benefits:
A starting salary of £25,500
Support from our Early Careers team and 121 manager mentorship
35 days' holiday inclusive of bank holidays
10% pension contribution with life assurance benefits
Learning and development opportunities

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