Systems Engineering Industrial Placement; Customer Support

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.

• 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.

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.
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