Industrial Placement Systems Engineer

Leonardo’s Industrial Placement programme offers a paid placement (£25,000) to develop your knowledge and skills required to become an engineering or business professional of the future.

On our programme, you will engage with challenging and exciting project work and deliver innovative business or technical solutions as part of a team of subject matter experts. Throughout the programme, you will receive coaching and support from your team to achieve your objectives as well as your personal development goals. You will gain a wide array of experience on your placement that you can apply to your academic studies and future career.

At Leonardo, we value individuals who continuously demonstrate a dedication to their personal development, and successful completion of an Industrial Placement with Leonardo can lead to an offer on our Graduate Development Programme. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are willing to take on a challenge to fill our industrial placement roles, and we will demand a high degree of customer focus and work performance from you in order to meet our operational challenges. If you are willing and able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!

Responsibilities and Tasks

As an Industrial Placement Systems Engineer, you will work on real engineering problems within either the Radar or the Advanced Targeting business area. You will have the opportunity to be involved in supporting a wide range of tasks across multiple projects/products, such as:

• The radar for the Typhoon fighter jet
• The radar for the SAAB Gripen fighter
• Our family of Surveillance AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radars
• An IRCM (Infra-Red Counter Measures) system
• Our laser target designator or laser ranging systems

Core Activities within Systems Engineering Include:

• Requirements capture, design documentation, verification and validation
• Algorithm design and test
• Performance modelling; building physics-based models to test our designs through computer simulation
• Data analysis; end-to-end systems analysis using synthetic and 'real-world' data
• Applied research; from product improvements to blue-sky thinking

You will work with an experienced engineer who will provide day-to-day guidance and on-the-job training. You will be introduced to systems engineering processes, methods, technology, and tools, with particular emphasis placed on learning practical skills that may not be easily gained or experienced in the academic environment of a university.

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required

All of our Industrial Placement roles require you to be currently studying a relevant degree discipline such as Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, or other STEM subject degrees.

Additional Skills/Experience

• Coding/programming
• Relevant project work and/or placements in industry
• Solving problems as part of a team

Applying your science and technology knowledge to solve a real-world problem.

Eligibility: 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 five years of permanent residency in the UK.

Life at Leonardo

With a company-funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

Benefits:

• Adaptable Working: Adaptable hours with the possibility of some hybrid working.
• Company-funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology, and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance).
• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave, and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year.
• Pension: Award-winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution).
• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support, and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers).
• Lifestyle: Discounted gym membership, Cycle to work scheme.
• Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera.
• Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member.

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 creates 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!

What are you waiting for?

Leonardo is one of the biggest suppliers of defence equipment to the UK MoD. Come and be a part of a community and work with some of the most talented engineers in the UK on some of the most exciting projects around!

Don’t delay – these roles attract high competition, so APPLY NOW to avoid disappointment.