Ref.
003951
Location
United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
Salary Range
£30,000
Closing Date
24/03/2023
This vacancy may close at any time, if this role is of interest to you we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
The Opportunity
This role could be based on any of our main UK sites.
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 Leonardo, you can look forward to a career working alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work.
Leonardo’s Fast Track Programme offers you a permanent position to develop your knowledge and skills in our innovative and practical environment. In addition to working with our highly skilled engineers and business professionals, you will complete a 12 month programme to develop the skills you require to be a leading technical or business professional of the future.
Our 12 month Fast Track Programme
You will be provided with a wealth of development opportunities in both virtual and applied working environments. On our 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. Throughout the programme you will receive coaching and support from your team to achieve your objectives as well as your personal development goals.
You will gain a wide array of experience in your day to day role and work in Integrated Project Teams to deliver exciting and innovative technical solutions. We are committed to developing our graduates into leading technical or business professionals, and as such we will also support you through your preferred route for chartership.
At Leonardo we value individuals who continuously demonstrate a dedication to their personal development, and this is no different for our graduates. We have partnered with Coursera, the world leading online training platform that offers around 4,000 courses you can sign up to, according to your professional and personal interests. Self-directed learning thrives in this environment. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are willing to take on a challenge to fill our graduate roles, and we will demand a high degree of customer focus and work performance from you in order to meet our operational challenges.
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!
What you will do
Can you imagine yourself using new technology to solve customer problems? Does being a key part of supporting our armed forces sound rewarding? Would you like a role that includes customer engagement, data analytics and visualisation? If so, then why not join the growing engineering community within Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3).
The CS3 line of business operates across all of the main UK sites, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required, whether that’s helicopters supporting the Covid-19 relief effort or fast jets protecting UK air space. By joining our team, you could help us to continue to make a difference.
As a graduate systems engineer within CS3, you will be part of a team looking at how we can use information and data to improve our current business, and also create new opportunities for our customers in the UK and around the world. You will have the chance to work directly with these customers and our end users, getting the opportunity to understand some of their challenges first-hand. Your role might include capturing and understanding customer requirements, exploring available data and using mathematical analysis and modelling to turn it into useful information that will help our customers to make the right decisions at the right times.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Using technical expertise to solve problems, generate ideas and be pro-active within the team.
- Developing and applying your academic knowledge to undertake various activities across the engineering lifecycle, delivering to agreed performance targets, including cost and schedule.
- Developing practical skills in engineering design and development for complex solutions, understanding key processes and technologies.
- Working closely with engineers across multiple disciplines to solve problems.
- Completing tasks to a high standard and in accordance with appropriate processes and procedures.
- Taking an active role in engineering process improvement
What we are looking for
Highly desirable
- Able to apply big-picture thinking to look at problems as a whole
- Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and an ability to drive difficult issues to conclusion
- Able to work with minimum direction or supervision on complex tasks
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, and the ability to interact with subject matter experts regarding a range of technical and operational topics
- Confidence and ability to challenge and respond to technical or process issues
- Able to plan, prioritise and deliver high quality work
- Experience of data analysis using one or more programming languages (e.g. Python)
Mandatory
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 5 years permanent residency in the UK, but may need to be to a higher level for this particular role due to the nature of the projects and or programmes that the role will be supporting.
Qualifications
All of our roles require (a) a minimum of an upper Second class Bachelors/Integrated Masters degree, or (b) a higher degree, such as a MSc or PhD. In all cases the subject should be engineering, mathematics, physics or another relevant STEM discipline.