This engineering company has just been named the UK’s best new work experience provider

IMI Precision Engineering (formerly Norgren), a firm that works across the energy, medical and manufacturing industries, has just been awarded the honour of best new work experience provider for the responsibility if offers students.

The firm specialises in developing fluid and motion control technologies that have been used in everything from nuclear power plant cooling systems to chemotherapy drug-delivery devices.

Its summer intern programme, which was recognised at last month’s National Undergraduate Employability Awards, offers placements of six weeks to three months in which students are given the chance to lead a real project within the company.

‘It gives a genuine workplace experience, coupled with the opportunity to lead a real-life project and experience the benefits,’ IMI’s HR manager Claire Kennady told The Student Engineer via email.

Previous projects have included updating and validating the design of components and proving that removing a particular part could save over £10,000 from the supply chain.

‘We choose projects carefully to ensure they’re a challenge to our new recruit, but also that they can see them through to completion in the time they have available,’ said Qamar Hashmi, a quality engineer at IMI.