Enhancing Innovations and the Space Ecosystem Internship

Project Description:

Quick Summary: Work with the UK Space ecosystem, find and form relationships with SMEs to foster growth in the UK and help design the new £m UKSA grant funded catalyst for SME/academia engagement. Including the need for digital twins, AI and robotic spaces. Plus encourage an environment of Innovation, through events, activities, tools and tricks.

Main Description: Are you interested in developing fascinating innovation projects on aerospace and defence topics? Do you like connecting with people from many different organisations and countries?

The innovation management team is composed of an International team of 12 people who are a mixture of business developers, technical experts and programme managers who are all passionate about developing new products and services, new business models and new ways of working.

As part of this team you will have 2 exciting challenges:

1. Develop tools, processes and state of the art facilities to allow Airbus to optimise interfaces with SMEs/academia and stimulate the UK ecosystem

Understand the Innovation ecosystem, providing a consistent picture of all SMEs, innovation/start-ups, plus any pitches, challenges and events. 

Identify, track and form relationships with start-ups/SMEs/academia and suggest ways that we can work better together. Through better tools, processes, events and agile working.

Work on designing the £m UKSA grant funded catalyst for SME/academia engagement. Including the need for digital twins, AI and robotic spaces.

Run pitching events with SMEs

Enhance the innovation process for the creation of new partnerships in cooperation with the Procurement Team.

Encourage an environment of Innovation within the everyday life of the Airbus community. (Increase the community engagement within the company)

The innovation team internal communication is kept dynamic, current and engaging.

Increase the Innovation ambassador network/culture

Start the Innovation Club with talks, and other events

Provide resources for Innovators to use - tools, tricks, talks, one-pagers/websites etc.

You will get the opportunity to work with a large network of people both inside and outside the company. Great for your network!

You will see our Innovation projects in action and have access to the experts behind them!

You will develop understanding of the wider space industry and the whole ecosystem

Gain knowledge on how to do Pitching, Business case, go-to-market etc.

Your everyday office is next to the factory where they build our satellites.

Learn from multiple departments at work.

You will also develop skills of:

Self-management 

Communicating and working effectively with others

Applying knowledge from research.

Problem solving and decision making

Using emotional intelligence

Understanding Intellectual property

Creativity

Events organisation

Applicant Specification:

Minimum Requirements:

You have been studying for a relevant Business, Engineering or technical degree.

Interest in Defence and Space industry.

Minimum requirements: 

A strong interest in innovation, creativity, curiosity, openness, team spirit.

The ability to listen, understand and communicate information. Great networking skills.

Proactive, can-do attitude 

Good at researching and taking action on the results!

Visionary

A strong interest in developing yourself.

A negotiation level in English 

Authorisation to work in the UK (resident or current VISA)

Desirable Requirements:

You are a confident presenter and speaker, able to explain ideas, plans, requirements, and features to all types of audience.

You prefer progress over perfection.

You are positive, constructive, and enthusiastic even when it's a bad day.

You like a challenge and will find solutions even when it's not easy.

AIRBUS:

Airbus is a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and

solutions to customers on a worldwide scale. With around 134,000 employees globally and is the

largest aeronautics and space company in Europe and a worldwide leader. 

Process details:

8 weeks minimum fixed term contract to be agreed with successful candidate

In-person Induction Event to be held on 24th June, and an in-person/hybrid Showcase Event to be held in October.

5 days holiday to be taken during the placement

How we work:

We strive to create a high trust environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work – this helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture. Our shared values are critical to this:

We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet

We connect - and engage with people and ideas

We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams, our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us.

This job description set outs the skills and experience we believe are needed to be able to do this job but, research also tells us women are much more likely than men to take this list of requirements as absolute and self-select out of the process. If you think you can deliver this role then we want to hear from you, regardless of the boxes you didn’t tick.