Industrial Operations Manufacturing Undergraduate - Halewood Details | JLR

REQ : 129964

JOB TITLE:Industrial Operations:
Manufacturing Undergraduate Programme - Halewood

POSTING END DATE: 25/01/2026

START DATE: 06/07/2026

PROGRAMME DURATION: 12 months

LOCATION: Halewood, Liverpool

Our undergraduate programmes offer a direct pipeline to our graduate scheme, which is not eligible for sponsorship. Therefore, JLR will only accept applications for this programme from candidates who would have the right to work in the UK at the point that they would successfully convert to the graduate programme.

JLR’s graduate programme is where your ambition meets automotive innovation. Learn from visionary industry experts, build your network and gain invaluable industry insight. Become integral to our future and build the exceptional career you deserve. Arrive with potential. Grow with freedom.

Your career starts here.

At JLR, our Industrial Operations function is responsible for creating thousands of vehicles every day. The function unites our manufacturing, procurement and supply chain teams and together, they think beyond the challenges of today to build the cars of tomorrow.

This industry‑leading undergraduate programme is an opportunity for you to shape the future of manufacturing. You’ll gain real‑world experience, learning how to implement and manage a lean manufacturing operation, explore the digital engineering lifecycle of a vehicle and develop your core competencies in engineering.

During the year‑long programme, you could work either within our Halewood Plant team or within our Global Manufacturing Engineering (GME) function (also based at Halewood). The team in which you are placed will be influenced by your subject specialism and where that supports business needs.

Explore the different teams you could be a part of below.

Our Halewood Plant is a vehicle production facility with a long heritage of manufacturing. In fact, we’re extremely proud to have achieved our 60th year of manufacturing in 2023. What’s more, Halewood is home to the award‑winning Evoque and the Discovery Sport and is now destined to become our first fully electric vehicle manufacturing facility.

This is an exciting time for us, with unprecedented levels of investment and the introduction of new technologies. We’re developing a new generation of electric cars, and if you join this team, you’ll play a key role in helping us deliver our innovative Electrical Modular Architecture (EMA) platform. Utilising a range of toolsets and benefiting from extensive on‑the‑job training, you’ll learn all about problem‑solving and applying data analysis techniques, giving you the skills you need for a fast‑moving manufacturing career.

Some of the areas you’ll focus on while in the Halewood Plant team include Paint, Trim and Final, Quality or Materials, Planning and Logistics.

The Halewood Paint Process Current Manufacturing Engineering (CME) team ensures that our manufacturing processes follow engineering guidelines, meet international standards, and maintain quality. They focus on analysing and solving problems, continuously improving processes, and using tools like pFMEA to control for all conditions in the production environment.

The paint shop offers a set of unique challenges starting with the pre‑treatment & electrocoat process, sealer application, up to 5 layers of robot applied paint on interior and exterior panels followed by a waxing process. After each paint layer, there is an inspection and rectification process, the level of detail the team must work to is one of the highest in the plant.

The engineering team are responsible for over 180 parameters that must be in spec and continually worked on to reduce variability across all areas.

In Trim and Final, the Current Manufacturing Engineering (CME) team supports the manufacturing team in producing our vehicles. They provide technical support to ensure the highest build quality, compliance with the Bill of Process (BOP), and help solve quality of production issues.

The team also supports new model launches at Halewood such as our new electric vehicles. Trim and…