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 summer 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.
Our Summer Placement Programme
Our 13 weeks Summer Placement Programme gives you the chance to work on meaningful projects alongside subject matter experts, within multidisciplinary teams, and across the product lifecycle. Throughout your placement, you’ll receive coaching and support from a dedicated team, with the potential to return for future placements or progress onto our Graduate Development Programme.
We encourage you to spend at least three days each week on site to integrate with your team and maximise your learning experience.
What you’ll do as a Summer Placement Supportability Engineer
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.
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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
Data Analytics – producing reports using analysis from Production and Field Defect Data
Currently studying Aerospace, Electronics or Mechanical Engineering or related disciplines
Computer literacy (MS Office)
Appreciation of the lifecycle of a product and electronic product design
A passion for reliability and root cause analysis
Analytical with an eye for data
Collaborative and flexible in approach
Security Clearance
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports your wellbeing, learning and development, and work–life balance
Time to recharge Our employees are entitled 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays. As a Summer Placement student you will receive this allowance pro rata.
Secure your future Award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution
Your wellbeing matters Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity)
Never stop learning Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn learning.
We are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people, communities, and customers. Contract Type
Fixed term
Hybrid Working
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