Industrial Placement Mechanical Engineer

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 extraordinary—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 offers you the chance to spend a year with us, working on meaningful projects alongside industry leaders, within multidisciplinary teams, and across the product lifecycle. You’ll receive a salary of £26,228, with coaching and support from a dedicated team to help you achieve both your placement objectives and personal development goals.

Successful completion of an Industrial Placement with Leonardo 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.

During your placement, you will be exposed to tools, technologies and processes. You will be introduced to the software development processes and utilise state‑of‑the‑art methods, technology and tools. You will also gain experience on one or more aspects of the software development lifecycle, which could include; applied research, requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, and test.

• • Contribute to Mechanical designanddevelopment
  • Work within the integrated project team, providing accurate mechanical engineering output and assisting in the provision of technical information to ensure informed decision‑making
  • Support and facilitate reviews
  • Liaison with other engineering functions for example systems, electrical, quality and production to ensure product &customer requirements are fully satisfied
  • Perform ‘hands on’mechanical designanddevelopmentusing 3
    
    DCADor Analysis software
  • Deliver design solutions against requirements, within budget and timescales
  • Create documentation inline with BS8888, including appropriate use of GD&T, to support manufacture, test and inspection of Mechanical item
  • Manage design documentation through the company PDM system

All of our Industrial Placement roles require you to be currently undertaking a minimum of a Bachelors level degree such as Mechanical Engineering, Aero-Mechanical Engineering, Mechtronics or Electro-Mechanical.

The successful candidate should have the following skills and experience:

• • Be a self‑motivated individual, willing to take on new challenges and drive continuous personal development
  • Strong communication skills across a variety of mediums i.e. written, verbal, digital, etc.
  • The ability to develop effective working relationships with peers and stakeholders
  • Appreciate the principals of Mechanical engineering design
  • Ability to problem solve and engage in concurrent engineering
  • Some knowledge of usingCADand Analysis tools
  • Customer focused
  • Appreciate DFx, mechanical production processes and techniques

Many of our roles are subject to security requirements and, where applicable, export control restrictions arising from UK Government requirements and customer obligations many of our roles are subject to security and export control restrictions set by UK Government Security requirements and customer obligations. As a result, and in line with the UK Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) requirements, all successful applicants will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record…