Engineering Design and Manufacture - Graduate Apprentice

Job Description:

Our Apprentice Opportunities:

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4 years across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training coupled with on-the-job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience, and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career. We offer competitive entry salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, with salary increases as you progress.

Whether leaving school or college with GCSEs/Standards, A ‘Levels/Highers (or equivalent), or in work and looking for a new career path, you are fully supported as you rotate within the business, working on real-time projects alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work. We support helping you settle into your new location, ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from Day 1.

There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhance many aspects of each programme.

Leonardo values people that look to always develop throughout their career and, along with an eager willingness to learn, a successful apprenticeship with us involves a drive to deliver results, sometimes from your own initiative, a patience for problem-solving, as well as a need to comply with safety instructions and clear process compliance at all times. We view commitment to programme and learning objectives very highly.

Leonardo’s four-year Design Engineering Graduate Apprenticeship scheme in Edinburgh is looking for people who understand the importance of communication, who are able to work well as part of a team and also on their own initiative. You will have the drive and commitment to work through difficult problems to find the right engineering solutions.

Role Description:

You will study at the University of Strathclyde for completion of a BEng (Hons) in Engineering: Design & Manufacture through a mixture of work-based learning, distance learning, and day release at University. On completion, you should have met the requirements for Incorporated Engineer as part of the way to gaining Chartered Engineer status.

We need people who understand the importance of our customers and are ready to commit to working in the business, whilst also committing to a 4-year degree programme. At the end of the programme, you will work as a highly qualified member of our Engineering community in a discipline such as electronics, mechanical, test, support, and systems engineering.

Key Responsibility Areas:

• Learn how to design, manufacture, and support advanced avionic equipment
• Develop engineering knowledge, skills, and behaviours
• Practice the full engineering lifecycle
• In Years 3 and 4, you will specialise in one of the engineering disciplines covered in your rotations

Who Would Suit This Role?

Leonardo values people that look to always develop throughout their career and, along with an eager willingness to learn, a successful apprenticeship with Leonardo involves a drive to deliver results, sometimes from your own initiative, a patience for problem-solving, as well as a need to comply with safety instructions and clear process compliance at all times. We view commitment to the programme and learning objectives very highly.

Note: This Apprenticeship assumes the candidate has little professional engineering experience and is not suitable for candidates who already have an engineering-related degree.

The starting salary for this role: £21,525

Qualifications:

• 4 Higher Grades (or equivalent): BBBB
• Mandatory: Mathematics AND Physics or a Technology subject
• Preferred: English and another STEM subject, e.g., Graphic Communication, Product Design, Craft & Design, Tech Studies, Computing, Woodwork, Metalwork, etc.
• Standard Grades (1-3) / National 5: (A-C) in English

Note: SAAS funding from English apprentices moving to Scotland must have residency in Scotland before 1st August 2025.

Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity, you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business, which includes having a minimum of 5 years' permanent residency in the UK.

At Leonardo, we are strongly committed to supporting all our people, and as society and the environment we work in changes, our approach to Inclusion and Diversity continues to evolve and adapt to reflect this. A culture of inclusion goes on to create an environment for greater collaboration, innovation, and opportunities to develop as an organisation. If you are willing and able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!

Primary Location: GB - Edinburgh

Contract Type: Permanent

Hybrid Working: Hybrid