Process and Quality Student Placement

Location:

Belfast

Workplace:

Hybrid

Closing Date:

2nd February 2025

The opportunity:

To support Process and Quality and reporting team members, who work with cross-functional operational teams to deliver positive impacts on business results.

Working at Baker McKenzie:

Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Centre is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.

We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity for all and are confident we can provide a career as individual and as exceptional as you.

Responsibilities:

• Work with process and quality team to learn and then support the introduction of advanced Continuous Improvement (CI) techniques and methodology (process mapping, process management, Lean Six Sigma) to our function
• Support the creation of documentation to present findings
• Work with both the Process and Quality and reporting teams to support the improvement and update of all their systems and documentation

Essential Criteria:

To be successful in this role you will need:

Skills and Experience:

• Studying for a relevant degree
• Be on course for a 2.1 degree or above (We will determine whether you're on track for a 2.1 based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study)
• Be an undergraduate university student expecting/ hoping to undertake a work placement in your third year. Must be available to start in July/August 2025.
• Drive, desire to effect continuous improvement
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Intermediate PowerPoint skills
• High degree of numeracy
• Willingness to learn
• Flexible and adaptable approach to work
• Creative thinking; being able to spot issues and implement solutions.
• Poise and patience under pressure; ability to multi-task.
• Superb time management, judgment, decision-making and problem solving skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Legally eligible to work in the country in which the position is located.