Industrial Placement - Engineering

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 bigger—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. 

• Support the delivery of project work, ensuring tasks are completed to time, cost, and quality. 
• Collaborate across disciplines to contribute to innovative solutions and achieve project goals. 

• Apply your academic knowledge to real-world challenges in areas such as design, testing, qualification, or technology support. 

• Learn from and share ideas with your team, gaining insight into the business and industry. 

• Develop your skills with guidance from an experienced supervisor and the wider engineering community. 

• On track for achieving a 2:1 bachelor’s degree in any STEM subject

• Personal responsibility, resilience and ethics. Ability to be able to comply with health and safety guidance and procedures, be disciplined and have a responsible approach to risk.
• Work diligently at all times, accept responsibility for managing time and workload and stay motivated and committed when facing challenges.
• Work effectively and Integrate with the team, consider implications of their actions on other people and the business.
• Focus on quality and problem solving. Follow instructions and guidance, demonstrate attention to detail, follow a logical approach to problem solving and seek opportunities to improve quality, speed and efficiency.
• Continuous personal development. Reflect on skills, knowledge and behaviours and seek opportunities to develop, adapt to different situations, environments or technologies and have a positive attitude to feedback and advice.

At Leonardo, 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 declaration information and employment and/or education history verification for the previous five years.

For staff operating in more sensitive posts, there is an additional range of personnel security controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV).  As part of this process, a range of factors may be considered, including an individual's background, travel history, nationality, previous nationalities held and other information relevant to the vetting assessment.

To be eligible for National Security Vetting at SC level, applicants will generally be expected to have continuously resided in the UK for the previous five years. For DV clearance, this is typically ten years.  In some circumstances, time spent overseas may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.  Additional vetting requirements may apply upon appointment.

For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting