Internships
Summer at Centrica
We are looking for talented undergraduates to get a head start with their career. We offer you the opportunity to work on real projects with real responsibility, while benefiting from a wide support network.
If you show a passion to learn and align to our values, the Summer Internship Programme offers a gateway to Centrica's Graduate Programme.
Our Summer Placements
Business Management
This placement is designed to ignite a spark in our leaders of the future – supercharging your skills in everything from project and people management to strategic and analytical thinking. Embedded in one of our consumer brands, you’ll have a direct opportunity to impact our operations – championing the customer at the heart of our business.
Commercial Analyst
We have a range of challenges across our family of businesses and brands – and we’re looking for fresh ideas and perspectives to help solve them. As a Commercial Analyst, you will be embedded in one our business units, with the placement designed to arm you with a host of commercial and technical skills.
DTS Software Engineering
Join our growing team of Software Engineers spanning a range of disciplines including Data Engineering, Data Science, Cloud Platform Engineering, Digital Product Engineering, Network Engineering, and Information/Cyber Security. You will learn new software and data skills and, maybe more importantly, how to apply them to business opportunities.
Engineering
As the UK’s largest integrated energy company, when we say we can give you an experience like no other, we really mean it! Our diverse portfolio of assets will expose you to a unique and wide-ranging set of activities and opportunities – making this the perfect place to launch your career in engineering.
Finance
You'll get stuck in to a variety of financial disciplines across our family of businesses and brands. This could include roles in Business Finance, Financial Control, and more specialist Corporate Centre teams such as Investor Relations, Treasury, and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Marketing
Our family of iconic brands, including British Gas, offer you the chance to open career-changing doors. In marketing, we’re really excited about the future. Why? Because we’re at the heart of helping millions of customers through the energy transition and we want to be bolder, braver, and more relatable than ever before.
People
At Centrica, we're not a perfect place - but we're a people place. Our People Team is right at the heart of what it means to work here. Opportunities on this placement span across a wide-range of people-related roles, from Employee Relations, Reward, to Business Partnering and Recruitment.
Procurement
The procurement team are responsible for purchasing all the goods and services our business needs to succeed. You could be involved in anything from setting out strategy to ensure we keep a responsible, environmentally friendly supply chain, to managing our relationship with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft.
'Unlike other work experience you really get involved with projects and have real work to do. You are given responsibility from day 1 and the work that you complete really has an impact on the company that you can see throughout the placement.'