Industrial Placement Systems Engineer

Our client is a global aerospace, defence and security company.

Job Description:

Your impact Do you want to work on real-time projects alongside leading scientists and engineers within a globally renowned company? We're looking for industrial placement students who want to be part of something extraordinary—shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety. Our client's Industrial Placement Programme offers you a paid placement to develop your knowledge and skills in our innovative and practical environment.

In addition to working with our highly skilled engineers and business professionals, successful completion of an Industrial Placement can often lead to an offer for a permanent graduate position and securing your place on our industry leading Graduate Development Programme. This programme is remunerated £26,228 per annum. A 6 month – 1 year Industrial Placement Programme Our Industrial Placement Programme is designed to offer you the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills you require 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.

We value individuals who continuously demonstrate a dedication to their personal development. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are willing to take on a challenge to complete a placement, 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 to commit to giving your best performance, you will find our client a very rewarding place to work!

Successful completion of an Industrial Placement with our client may also lead to an offer on our Graduate Development Programme. During your placement, we encourage you to spend at least three days each week on site to integrate with your team and maximise your learning experience. What you'll do Systems Engineers are involved in all aspects of design and development;

from initial product design through to in-service support. They look at the big picture, determine how the system needs to operate and collaborate to produce the required overall operational behaviours. They also dive into the deepest level of detail – taking the system piece-by-piece and defining its design to the finest point. Our Systems Engineers can also actively engage in R&D, developing new concepts and conducting fundamental research into our future technologies.

As a 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…