Details
1101595
University of Warwick
13/10/2025
Other - See Job
36.5 hours per week
Not Applicable
Pay
£12.83
£1.55
Description
Role
This is a 12 week paid internship opportunity as part of the WMG Internship Programme.
This role involves establishing a soldering/brazing process to produce water direction / flow control products assembled from individually machined parts. The role will encompass a review of potential alloys suitable for the process and the evaluation of the joints produced for strength, surface wettability and aesthetic finish.
Working with the product design team the successful candidate will modify where required the joint geometry to produce joints with the required properties. Monitoring the process to establish standard operating procedures used to control volume production processes.
This internship will benefit your manufacturing and design skills as well as provide hands on experience of making product with soldered or brazed joints, and how they should be controlled for optimum properties of the finished product.
The internship is based at the company site in Smethwick and within WMG at Warwick University; you will be working closely with the Samuel Heath team, gaining first-hand experience in a manufacturing business; as part of the Programme, you will also benefit from weekly supervision and support by a WMG expert, throughout the duration of the project.
About the company:
Samuel Heath are a high end market leader in decorative taps, showers and other bathroom and kitchen equipment, with a long history of manufacturing at its Smethwick site in Birmingham. They have a strong background in engineering for their product range and want to expand their capability in product design by engaging in a production soldering/brazing capability.
Duties and responsibilities
Within the project the main activities will include:
A review of potential filler materials to make the joint, both soldering alloys and brazing alloys.
Identification of some suitable alloys and the production of lap jointed test pieces using the selected fillers to determine the joint strength the alloys will achieve.
Assembly of components and production of test pieces to measure joint strength of the product, using the existing joint design
Work with the design team for the component parts to redesign the joint to achieve the optimum finished part taking into consideration the mechanical strength requirements and the aesthetic finish needs of the product.
During the development of the joining process measure the process variables and develop a standard operating process to replicate and produce repeatable products using the control parameters identified during the development phase.
Embed any design changes identified to optimise the joining process into the product or component design.
Write formal SOP’s for the process and train operators to achieve the required finished product standards.
Skills and experience
ESSENTIAL:
- First degree in mechanical engineering or materials science
- Practical laboratory or engineering experience
- An understanding and appreciation of materials manufacturing or production
- Good verbal and written communication, time management and organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Self-motivated, driven and proactive
DESIRABLE:
- Knowledge of CAD design
- Surface cleaning and preparation
- Previous experience in soldering and brazing processes.
- Sectioning and polishing processes to produce good quality cross sections of the joints
Location
Work will be carried out on campus in the IIPSI, MEC and AMMC buildings.
Additional information
- Start and end date: 13th October 25 for 12 weeks
- Deadline to apply: 30th September 25.
- Please provide a CV and cover letter with your application.
Please note upon applying for this role you are consenting to your contact details being shared directly with the hiring manager.
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