Environment Health and Safety Placement

Environment Health and Safety Placement

Start date: 17 August 2026

Location: Broughton, North Wales

Duration: 12.5 months

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Benefits:

Salary: £23,40035 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

About us:

The Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) team is looking for a talented and enthusiastic student to gain experience in this diverse and critical function at Airbus. This role is based at our Broughton site, with strong interaction with our wider UK and global EHS organisation.

Airbus has an enviable performance in EHS and includes these improvements within its global Top Company Objectives. Airbus has also made a clear commitment to sustainability by leading the journey towards clean aerospace, decarbonised aviation, net-zero emissions, and carbon-neutral activities. This is an exciting time for sustainability at Airbus, covering everything from energy and waste improvements at the site level to the development of greener biofuels and hydrogen-powered flight.

In addition to our involvement in the sustainability journey, we enable and support Airbus UK with professional expertise in Safety, Occupational Health and Wellbeing, Environment, and Industrial Hygiene. The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of deploying our wider EHS activities, in addition to sustainability improvements.

The UK EHS team also covers the Filton site, and you will have the opportunity to work with both locations. You will also be able to work and engage with transnational colleagues, so some travel may be involved.

What you will be doing:

During this placement, the activities you may undertake will include:

• Provide support to and gain experience of all daily aspects of all functions within EHS and its customer base;
• Work with the teams that EHS support to help drive improvements and synergies;
• Engage in the various Multi Functional Teams, such as sustainability, that EHS support or lead;
• Identify and develop improvements to EHS communication channels;
• Support the development, implementation and best use of electronic reporting and monitoring tools;
• Provide support in the research, delivery and evaluation of internal communication campaigns.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

Your application should include a CV along with a Cover Letter outlining your motivation and suitability for the role.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Studying towards a degree in an Environmental field, Geography, or equivalent;
• Basic IT Systems (presentation and graphics);
• Be comfortable to communicate with internal and external audiences;
• Basic awareness of stakeholder, brand and reputation management;
• Be inquisitive, enthusiastic, driven and confident;
• Be able to work well in a team;
• Be self-motivated and know how to use their own initiative;
• Excellent writing skills;
• Be comfortable communicating verbally with stakeholders at all levels.

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

You will be subject to a BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) check. You may also need to gain UK SC-level Security Clearance or Export Control, depending on the role.

Contact

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

How to apply

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