Industrial Placement Systems Engineering; CS

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Job Description
Your impact
Are you ready to make an impact and gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects from day one?

At Leonardo, we’re looking for industrial placement students who want to be part of something bigger—shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

Our placements are designed to help you apply your studies in a practical setting, develop your technical skills, and gain valuable insight into how our business operates.

Our Industrial Placement Programme
We have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineering Industrial Placement to join our team within the Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. The CS3 line of business operates across the UK, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required.

During our 12-month Industrial Placement 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. You will be part of a team working alongside leading engineers, using new technology to solve customer problems. You will be engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders to understand their needs at all stages of the engineering lifecycle.

There are several Systems Engineering Industrial Placement roles available in CS3 – your role will cover one or more of the following areas

• Support Solution Design Conceptual design and development of new support solutions and services, including those for Typhoon and Team Tempest.
• Technical Support Hands-on testing and repair of some of our in-service equipment, across helicopters and fast jets. You will be able to work on electronic-based systems, as well as associated test equipment.
• Digital Development, maintenance and support of digital tools used by customers. These tools help customers in areas such as asset and logistics management and decision-making. Capabilities include data processing, reporting and visualisations.
• CS3 Engineering Capability Development Carrying out cross-cutting activities to improve the services that we can offer to customers. This may include new technologies, data and information exploration, and developing different approaches to support.

As part of the application process, you will have the opportunity to explore which area would be the best fit for you. Alongside your main role, you will also have the chance to take part in a project with other early careers individuals.

Throughout your Industrial Placement, you will receive coaching and support from your team, including our dedicated CS3 Early Careers Manager, 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.

There will also be opportunities to get involved in STEM activities with local schools and universities.

This role can be based at either our Luton or Edinburgh site. It is likely to include travel, both within the UK and possibly also abroad, to provide in-person support to our customers.

Leonardo also operates a Custom (hybrid) working model that allows our employees to split their time between attending the workplace and working remotely.

As an Industrial Placement
Systems Engineer
Dependent on the specific role, you will do a combination of the following

• Use technical expertise to solve problems, generate ideas and be pro-active within the team.
• Develop practical skills in engineering design, development and verification for complex solutions, understanding key processes and technologies.
• Develop and apply your academic knowledge to undertake various activities across the engineering lifecycle, delivering to agreed performance targets, including cost and schedule.
• Work closely with engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Visualise and…