Year-in-industry

Kickstart your career

Ready to put down your books for a year and get hands on with some real projects?

Our Year in Industry Programmes will complement your studies and accelerate your development – setting you up for your future career.

Our Year in Industry Placements

DTS (Tech)

Set yourself up for a limitless career in tech! You'll be placed at the heart of one of our key technology teams, such as: web & mobile app development, core application development, cloud platform/network engineering, data engineering and data science, information/cyber security technology.

Environmental Analyst

In this role, you will help develop, implement, and monitor the progress of our climate change strategy for both our own operations but also for our customers - offering you first-hand insight into how the energy industry is changing and the different energy decarbonisation pathways for the future.

Finance

You'll get stuck in to a variety of financial disciplines across our family of businesses and brands. Your placements will be flexible and could include roles in Business Finance, Financial Control, and more specialist Corporate Centre teams such as Investor Relations, Treasury, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

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.  

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 - and you'll have the opportunity to make a huge impact during the year. Placements could include anything from Employee Relations or Reward to Business Partnering and Recruitment.

Get Ahead

"By doing the Year in Industry, it made my degree much easier to understand, especially in my third-year, since I gained a lot of the knowledge needed for my exams both practically and theoretically."

Zara Khan, Former Year in Industry Student