Summer Placement Systems Engineering; Customer Support

Are you ready to apply your studies to a real-world engineering challenge and gain practical experience of Systems Engineering? At Leonardo, we're looking for summer 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 engineering in industry.

We have several exciting opportunities for Summer Placement Systems Engineering s 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.

Our nine-week Summer Placement is designed to give you meaningful experience within a relatively short period. You will typically work on a defined project or investigation focused on a real CS3 engineering challenge, giving you the opportunity to explore a problem, work with engineers and stakeholders, develop and evaluate ideas, and communicate your findings and recommendations. Projects are likely to support the development of CS3's engineering capability and could involve areas such as new technologies, data and information, engineering methods and tools, or new approaches to how we design and deliver support solutions.

You will work as part of a team throughout your placement, whether undertaking a defined investigation or contributing to a broader range of ongoing engineering activities. You won't be expected to know everything when you join. Throughout your placement, you'll work alongside experienced engineers and subject matter experts who will help you understand the context behind your project and provide technical guidance.

You'll also receive coaching and support from your team and our dedicated CS3 Early Careers Manager. You will also have opportunities to engage with other early careers colleagues and the wider engineering community, helping you gain an understanding of the different career opportunities available within Leonardo. As your understanding and confidence grow, you'll have the opportunity to take ownership of elements of your project, explore ideas and apply what you've learned at university in a practical engineering environment.

There will also be opportunities to get involved in STEM activities with local schools. Our aim is for a Summer Placement to be the start of your journey with us. Successful placements may lead to opportunities to return for future placements or, where appropriate, join our Graduate Programme after completing your studies.

This is a nine-week placement based at our Luton site. 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 placement, project and team.

• Apply and develop your technical knowledge to investigate a real engineering problem or opportunity.
• Understand the problem and its wider context, including the needs of relevant customers and stakeholders.
• Gather, analyse and interpret information or data to develop your understanding and support engineering decisions.
• Explore potential solutions, approaches or improvements, considering their benefits, limitations and wider implications.
• Use Systems Engineering techniques such as requirements analysis, modelling, option assessment or structured problem solving, where appropriate to your project.
• Work collaboratively with engineers and specialists from different disciplines, learning from their expertise and contributing your own ideas and perspectives.
• Develop practical experience of how engineering activities are undertaken within an organisation, including the processes, methods and tools used to deliver high-quality technical work.
• Document and communicate your work clearly, sharing your findings, conclusions or recommendations with relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to engineering capability and process improvement, where relevant to your placement.
• Contribute to the design, development, integration, verification or support of complex systems and support solutions.

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