Are you a forward thinking and aspiring undergraduate ready to take your next steps in your career? Yunex Traffic is looking for aspiring undergraduates to join our Business Excellence team on a 12-month internship contract as part of our Intern Development Programme.
As our cities get bigger and more complex, Yunex Traffic makes mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable with forward-looking infrastructure and transport solutions. Yunex Traffic designs, markets, manufactures, installs, and maintains a wide portfolio of international traffic management products and is the UK market leader in the traffic signal business. This includes intersection and pedestrian traffic controllers, intelligent urban traffic control systems, variable message signs, public transport, and car park guidance systems to enhance road safety and improve traffic flow in congested urban and inter-urban areas.
The challenge
Part of being a #TrafficTransformer intern at Yunex Traffic means you’ll gain practical experience working on real projects in a leading, global intelligent traffic systems company. You’ll bring fresh perspective to what we do, helping us to achieve our goals.
Here is a taste of what you can expect from this internship:
- Work with teams from across our company to gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of business systems and process.
- Connect with people and bring them together to identify business process challenges.
- Learn to use tools such as PowerApps and Power BI to collect and process data.
- Help our teams understand and visualise data so they can make key business decisions.
- Develop requirements and find solutions that will be used by our teams to improve the business and provide an enhanced customer experience.
The location of this apprenticeship role will be: Poole, Dorset
Our offices are based 2.5 miles outside Poole city centre and half an hour from Bournemouth. There are frequent direct bus services as well as ample free onsite parking.
The candidate
We are looking for forward-thinking, inquisitive candidates who demonstrate the following characteristics:
- Studying for their bachelor’s degree, ideally in a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts or Maths)
Additionally, you will be required to:
- Engage with people and teams at all levels of our business, including Engineering, Manufacturing,
- Sales, Finance and Services.
- Think creatively, using available tools to develop solutions to challenges.
- Use a range of IT and digital tools, including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel).
- Learn new concepts and principles.
Whilst not essential, it would be a bonus if you already have experience with:
- Low-Code development, such as PowerApps or Mendix.
- Data management or Business Analytics (BA) tools.
The benefits of an internship at Yunex Traffic
- A comprehensive 12-month full-time internship with a global leader in intelligent traffic systems
- We offer plenty of opportunity to develop your career whilst offering a competitive salary and 26 days holiday
- Have the chance to join a community of highly skilled professionals who will help you on your learning journey
- Mentorship and support to help you develop professionally
- The opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our business, staying at the forefront of innovation and excellence
- Join our flexible benefits scheme with access to private medical care, discounted cinema tickets and gym membership and so much more!
What else do I need to know?
If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new. That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. We embrace diversity and create what’s right for the world by employing the people who live in it.
Yunex Traffic recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.
Recruitment Process
Applications for our Internships will close on 17th January 2025.
If you are successful with your application, we will invite you to an interview with the hiring team in person at our Poole site. These interviews are typically competency based and a chance for us to find out what your motivations are for your next career. An initial video interview may be completed via Microsoft Teams before proceeding with an in person interview.
For this role, you may also be asked to attend an assessment centre, where we will be able to find out more about you and your passions, as well as your future career goals.
Our Interns will join the business on 1st September 2025, so you must be available from this date.
Right to Work
Please note, if you are applying for an internship at Yunex Traffic, you must have the Right to Work in the UK for the duration of the 12 months. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to sponsor anyone joining us on our Internship Development Programme who doesn’t have valid right to work in the UK.
How To Apply
Applications should be made online. Please apply to this advert and include curriculum vitae and a cover
letter to confirm:
- Availability to start the 12-month internship on a full-time basis from September 2025
- You have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the internship
- Confirmation that you intend to remain in the UK for the duration of the internship and will be available to work in the relevant Yunex Traffic office for a minimum of 3 days per week
- Confirmation that the internship forms part of a formal university placement year
Or
- Is unrelated to a university formal industrial placement year
Or
- You are subject to reduced working hours restrictions during “term time” along with details of dates where restriction apply
- Whether you have any deadlines to confirm your internship or placement year
Additional Information to help with your application
If you would like to hear more about Yunex Traffic and what we do, check out our Virtual Work Experience with Springpod here! This is an on-demand programme that you can complete at any time. If you complete this, be sure to let us know on your application, or via email at ukcareers@yunextraffic.com.
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