Industrial Placement

At HR Wallingford we design smart resilient solutions across the natural and built environments to help everyone live and work more sustainably with water. By harnessing research data insights and the power of our collective expertise we help the world to better understand the changing influence and impact of water.

Do you want to contribute to exciting and innovative projects whilst working alongside technical specialists and industry experts HR Wallingford is a world-leading research and consultancy organisation. From flooding to shipping offshore energy to climate change we advise clients worldwide how to manage their interactions with the water environment. This is an opportunity to undertake a one year industrial placement working with our Engineering Coasts and Oceans or Maritime and Ships teams based at Howbery Park Wallingford Oxfordshire.

We have vacancies for industrial trainees for one year commencing in July 2026. The positions would be ideally suited to undergraduate students whose course includes a sandwich year in industry.

About the role

As an Industrial Placement at HR Wallingford you will have the opportunity to work in either our Engineering teams physical modelling division in the Coasts & Oceans group or the Maritime & Ships group. You will work amongst a team of specialist engineers and scientists who are experts in their field.

The roles in the Engineering and Coasts & Oceans groups will primarily be based in our physical modelling hall and will include the following tasks:

• Testing to evaluate the performance of marine and coastal structures
• Constructing and running physical models
• Data processing and analysing results to enable them to be presented to Clients
• Opportunities to work on desk based studies which should allow you to develop skills in analysis and design.

The role in the Maritime and Ships group will be based in our Ship Simulation Centre and office as well as our physical modelling hall (tasks above) and will include the following tasks:

• Operating the ship simulator as part of the simulation team running studies to assess port design for the safe navigation of vessels.
• Working on mooring assessments with the use of our dynamic mooring analysis tools to ensure safe mooring of ships at berth
• Data processing and analysing results to enable them to be presented to Clients

About you

Studying towards a civil or coastal engineering degree ship science or a numerate science or another physical science relating to coasts (e.g. Geography or Oceanography). You have strong numeracy and organisational skills.

Many of our physical models are large and will require the ability to carry pull and push materials to complete the build and so as a team player you will enjoy the challenge of working in a collaborative and rewarding environment.

You are enthusiastic about learning take responsibility for your actions and are motivated to deliver. You keep an eye on the detail and are comfortable working to deadlines. Familiarity with the use of spreadsheets and word processing packages is essential and knowledge of a computer language would also be useful.

Further information

• Check out our exceptional benefits at and Coasts & Oceans - Job Description and Person Specification
• Maritime and Ships Job Description and Person Specification
• Salary : 24242.40 per annum
• The closing date for applications is 7^th December 2025.

How to apply

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