A GOOD INTERNSHIP IS NEVER HANDS-OFF

Share your passion for getting hands-on with us.

We believe in creating an environment where our interns really can learn by doing during their time with us and where they are given their own areas of responsibilities from the start. That’s why our experts treat you as part of the team from day one, encourage you to bring your own ideas to the table – and give you the opportunity to really show what you can do.

Plant Oxford is the birthplace and heart of MINI production. Manufactured to individual customer specifications, hundreds of MINIs leave the plant’s assembly lines each day, off to meet new owners in more than 110 countries around the world. Since production of the new MINI started in 2001, almost 3 million cars have been made at Plant Oxford.

Three UK plants have had a part to play in MINI production – Plant Hams Hall makes engines, Plant Swindon produces body pressings and sub-assemblies for MINI, and all this comes together at Plant Oxford with body shell production, paint and final assembly.

To ensure that we are continually developing our workforce, we are looking for talented and motivated people who will inspire and shape our future business. Each year we offer a number of internship opportunities and are keen to hear from you if you are currently studying an undergraduate degree and are on track for a 2:1 or 1st class final result.

Electric Vehicle Mechanical Design and Simulation

The high-voltage-battery is one of the key-components of electric vehicles. Its power and energy density is crucial for the overall driving performance of electrified cars. Developing technologies and products with significant higher
performance for next generation vehicles is the scope of our department. We aim to optimize all aspects of a Li-Ion-Battery including chemical, mechanical and thermal aspects and are therefore in close co-operation with international
suppliers, universities, institutes and business partners.

Electric drive trains for automotive applications are facing different technical challenges. These include typical automotive requirements like mechanical fatigue or low weight targets. Also battery specific topics resulting from Li-Ion-cells itself or cooling demands.

Your responsibilities will range from:
• developing theoretical design solution using methodical approaches
• detailed mechanical design using CAD as well as
• The simulation of various components of the battery including the cell module, cooling components and housing parts.

You will further have the chance to manage the manufacturing of prototypes by suppliers, the assembly and the validation.
Finally you will gather all learnings from the validation and ensure their implementation in the upcoming sample phases.