Leonardo – Summer Placements – Edinburgh - Hybrid - 13 weeks 

Supportability Engineer

Job Description: 

Do you want to work on real-time projects alongside leading scientists and engineers within a globally renowned company? 

Leonardo is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. We are a continually expanding company, offering exciting opportunities to talented individuals who want to work at the forefront of technology. With the majority of our engineers having chartered status, you can look forward to working with highly skilled professionals that are passionate about their work. 

Leonardo’s Summer 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 a Summer Placement can often lead to an offer for a permanent graduate position and securing your place on our industry leading 

The 13 week Summer Industrial Placement Programme 

We have created a programme across our UK sites that not only increases your technical skills, but gives you the opportunity to work on meaningful real life projects, alongside experienced engineers and graduates across our business. 

You will receive coaching and support to achieve your personal goals and work in multidisciplinary teams to gain as much experience across the product lifecycle from your time in industry as possible.  Our ultimate aim is to see you through your undergrad years and successful placements will result in an offer to return for further placements or for an offer on our Graduate Development programme. 

This programme is remunerated £25,000 per annum. 

What you’ll do as a Summer Placement Supportability Engineer 

Supportability Engineers are integral to a product’s lifecycle: from concept and initial design, through production, and into in-service support. 

They analyse and report on the Reliability, Maintainability and Testability (RMT) of a product and advise on design and development in order to satisfy customer specifications. Supportability Engineering are the experts in Root Cause Analysis and are integral during production when manufacturing defects are observed. 

As a Summer Placement Supportability Engineer, you will contribute to a real ongoing project within the department alongside experienced engineers who will provide training, mentoring and guidance. You will be exposed to real-world engineering and learn about the use of Supportability processes and tools. 

In Edinburgh, Supportability Engineering are directly involved with: 

• IRCM (Infra-Red Counter Measures) Systems 

• Laser Target Designator and Laser Ranging Systems 

• Eurofighter Typhoon Radar 

• SAAB Gripen Radar 

• Surveillance AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) Radars 

• The Global Combat Air Programme 

Examples of summer placement projects include: 

• Physics of Failure & Finite Element Analysis – an evaluation of Ansys Sherlock in addition to experience of other tools within Ansys suite 

• Electronics Reliability Analysis - Evaluating Radar PCAs for Reliability, Maintainability, and Testability 

• Lead Free & Materials Science – design, development and production support and interaction with engineers in a variety of functions and roles 

• Data Analytics – producing reports using analysis from Production and Field Defect Data 

What we need from you 

All of our Summer Placement roles require you to be currently studying a relevant degree discipline such as Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, or other STEM subject degrees 

All successful candidates must be returning to university after their Summer Placement, i.e. not in their final year. 

In addition to this, we would be interested in hearing from you if you have experience or an interest in: 

• Reliability or Safety of electronic products 

• Problem solving within a project team 

• Relevant project work and/or placements in industry (beneficial but not essential) 

• Communicating to engineers and non-engineers from a variety of different backgrounds 

Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business which includes having a minimum of five years permanent residency in the UK. 

Life at Leonardo 

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people. 

• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with possibility of some hybrid working. 

• Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance) 

• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year 

• Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution) 

• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers) 

• Lifestyle:  Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme 

• Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera 

• Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member 

At Leonardo, we are strongly committed to supporting all our people, and, as society and the environment we work in changes, our approach to Inclusion and Diversity continues to evolve and adapt to reflect this. A culture of inclusion goes on to create an environment for greater collaboration, innovation and opportunities to develop as an organisation. If you are willing and able to commit to giving your best performance, you will find Leonardo a very rewarding place to work!   

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