Systems Engineering Industrial Placement (Customer Support)

Location: GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300; GB - Edinburgh

Job Description

The opportunity

Are you ready to apply your studies to real-world engineering challenges and gain hands-on experience from day one?

At Leonardo, we're looking for industrial placement students who are curious about how complex systems work, enjoy solving problems and want to gain experience working on projects that make a real-world difference. You'll have the opportunity to apply what you've learned at university, develop your technical and professional skills, and gain valuable insight into how engineering is delivered within industry.

We have several exciting opportunities for Systems Engineering Industrial Placements within our Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. CS3 operates across the UK, developing and delivering innovative support solutions and services that help our customers keep critical capabilities available wherever and whenever they are needed.

Systems Engineering in CS3 is varied, and your role will cover one or more of the following areas:

Support Solution Design: Help to understand customer needs and develop the support solutions and services that enable complex equipment to remain available and effective throughout its life. This could involve requirements, modelling, analysis and conceptual design, including work associated with Typhoon and the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

Technical Support: Develop hands-on engineering experience through the testing, investigation and repair of some of our in-service equipment across helicopters and fast jets. You could work with electronic-based systems and associated test equipment, while developing your understanding of how individual products and equipment contribute to the wider support system.

Digital: Help to develop, maintain and support digital tools used by our customers. These tools support activities such as asset and logistics management and decision-making, using capabilities including data processing, reporting and visualisation. You will gain experience of how digital technologies and data can be used to understand customer problems and improve support solutions and services.

CS3 Engineering Capability Development: Help us improve how we engineer and deliver support solutions across CS3. You could explore new technologies, analyse and visualise data, develop engineering methods and tools, or investigate new approaches that improve the services we provide to our customers.

You do not need to decide which of these areas is right for you before applying. During the application process, we'll explore your interests, strengths and aspirations with you to help identify where you could be the best fit.

During our 12-month Industrial Placement Programme, you will work alongside experienced engineers and subject matter experts on challenging project work, contributing to real technical and customer problems while developing your skills and understanding of engineering in industry.

You won't be expected to know everything when you join. Throughout your placement, you'll receive coaching and support from your team and our dedicated CS3 Early Careers Manager. As your knowledge, experience and confidence grow, you'll have opportunities to take greater ownership of your work and apply what you have learned at university in a practical environment. Alongside your main role, you will also have the opportunity to take part in a project with other early careers colleagues, giving you further experience of collaboration and working across different areas of the business.

You will gain a broad range of experience that you can take back into your academic studies and future career. There will also be opportunities to get involved in STEM activities with local schools.

Our aim is for your Industrial Placement to be an important step in your engineering career with Leonardo. Successful placements may lead to an opportunity to return to Leonardo after completing your studies, including through our Graduate Programme.

This role can be based at either our Luton or Edinburgh site. It is likely to include some travel within the UK and potentially overseas, providing opportunities to work directly with our customers and gain an understanding of their operational environment. Leonardo also operates a Custom (hybrid) working model that allows employees to split their time between attending the workplace and working remotely, subject to the needs of the role, team and customer.

What you'll do as a Systems Engineering Industrial Placement (Customer Support):

Depending on your specific role, you will have the opportunity to do a combination of the following:

Use and develop your technical knowledge to investigate problems, generate ideas and contribute proactively within your team.

Develop practical Systems Engineering skills in the design, development, integration and verification of complex systems and support solutions, while building your understanding of the processes and technologies involved.

Apply your academic knowledge to real engineering challenges across the engineering lifecycle, developing your understanding of how high-quality technical work is delivered within cost and schedule constraints.

Work collaboratively with engineers and specialists from multiple disciplines, learning from their expertise and contributing your own ideas and perspectives.

Work with customers and stakeholders to understand their needs, operational context and the problems they need us to solve.

Help to capture, analyse and manage customer and stakeholder requirements, and understand how these influence the design and development of a solution.

Use data analysis, modelling, visualisation and dashboards to support engineering decisions and communicate insights.

Complete your work to a high standard and in accordance with appropriate engineering processes, procedures and standards.

Identify opportunities to improve engineering process