Engineering Design & Manufacture Graduate Apprentice

The Opportunity Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4yrs. 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 in to 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.

We are 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.

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  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.

• During the first two years of your employment, you will be required to spend up to one day a month at University.
• Leonardo also gives 2 days a week to work towards your academic studies.
• Rotate around different Engineering hiring functions
• Learn how to design, manufacture and support advanced avionic equipment
• Develop Engineering knowledge, skills and behaviours
• Practice the full engineering lifecycle
• In Year 3 & 4 you will specialise in one of the Engineering Disciplines covered in your rotations

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…