Register Your Interest - Project Management Summer Internship 2027 in Appleby-in-Westmorland

Register Your Interest - Project Management Summer Internship 2027

Our 10-week Project Management Summer Placement gives you the opportunity to work on meaningful projects across our business. You’ll develop your understanding of project management, build new skills, and gain exposure to our business functions.

If making an impact matters to you.

You matter to us.

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:

• Good teamwork
• Ability to empathise

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.

About Network Rail

We are Network Rail. We matter to millions. We design stations, we repair tracks, we code software, we do finance, we do much more than you think.

As one of our graduates you’ll enjoy immense variety and gain unrivalled experience across a range of roles, projects, and types of work. You’ll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in all aspects of our industry and either find out where your interests and talents lie or further develop your career in an area you’re already passionate about.

The scale and scope of our organisation and the opportunities we offer is huge. But despite our size, you’ll find we work as a close, supportive team. And as one of many graduates on our scheme, you’ll not only be able to define your own career direction, you’ll also be able to share your growing experience and knowledge with our wider network of graduates - potentially building friendships and professional relationships that will last a lifetime.

We view our graduates as our future. So, whether you’re interested in a career in Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Business, you’ll find that everyone, at every level is happy to offer you their time, support, and advice. Because we want you to succeed. That’s also why we offer amazing access to training, development, and further qualifications. All you have to do is ask us. And if we can help you to advance your knowledge and your career, we will.

Choose a graduate career with us and you’re choosing a career with real meaning. You’ll be part of a large and growing UK organisation that genuinely cares about its people and the world around us. We’re driven by service, not profit. And we want to create a safe and sustainable future for everyone. We matter to millions.

Join us and you could too.

Deadline: Ongoing

Job Type:

Internship (1 Month+)

Job Roles:

Project Management

Business Operations

Procurement

Locations:

London

Par

Didcot

Appleby-in-Westmorland

Weston-super-Mare

Reading

Peterborough

Bristol

York

Manchester

Birmingham

Milton Keynes

Bedford

Cardiff

Glasgow

About Network Rail

We’re problem solvers and solution finders. We design stations, repair tracks, code software, do finance, and so much more. We also drive career direction for people like you.

This score is based on honest feedback written by students who’ve worked at Network Rail.

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