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Industrial Placement Software Engineer

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Deadline
30 Mar 2020 21:59

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Leonardo – Engineering the future

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

Leonardo’s Industrial Placement Programme offers you a paid opportunity to develop your current skillset in an innovative and practical environment that can lead to a place on our award winning Graduate programme for engineers and business professionals of the future.

The Opportunity: Industrial Placement Software Engineer

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 globally renowned and are continually expanding, offering exciting opportunities to talented individuals who want to work at the forefront of our 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.

The 6 month – 1 year Industrial Placement Programme

We have created a programme across our UK site 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 undergraduate years and hopefully offer you a place on our 2 year Graduate Development programme at an appropriate time. At Leonardo, we have some of the Industry’s most sophisticated technology at our fingertips, and we rely on having the very best employees to maintain our competitive edge. You will be working for a company at the cutting edge of technology, as well as enhancing your skills and business acumen, opening up your horizons to the diverse and dynamic ways in which your degree can be used.

We value those who continuously ask questions and look to resolve problems through creative and innovative thinking. We will demand a high degree of customer focus and work performance from you in order to meet our operational challenges.

Industrial Software Engineer - Job Description

We are looking for an Industrial Placement Software Engineer to join our Land & Naval Defence Electronics Division.

You will be joining our highly skilled software team at Leonardo UK Basildon on an Industrial Placement Programme.

This is a great opportunity for you to contribute to Leonardo's future success and in return we can offer great opportunities to develop and grow your skills, so why not join us!

Key Responsibility Areas

So let's highlight what you will do:-

  • You will work closely with experienced and multi-disciplined engineers to solve real problems.
  • You will work under the guidance of experienced software engineering leaders.
  • You will be introduced to utilising state of the art methods, technologies and tools to explore all aspects of the software development lifecycle including requirements analysis; through design, coding and unit test; to integrating the software with the hardware target; and to acceptance test and delivery.
  • You will design and implement high quality robust code and support build, configuration control, and deployment

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required

  • You will be studying towards a computer science degree level qualification (or equivalent in a relevant STEM discipline)
  • Knowledge/Experience of developing in any software Language
  • Awareness of distributed system environments
  • Work to timescales (with support) and contribute to project decisions
  • Ask for support where appropriate and learn from more experienced team members
  • Explore new experiences and opportunities to learn within the engineering community

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.

What’s in it for me?

  • Leonardo values their people and we reward commitment with a competitive remuneration and flexible benefits package including:
  • Competitive starting salary & Accommodation Allowance (subject to eligibility)
  • Generous holiday entitlement and flexible working arrangements Contributory pension scheme
  • Healthcare

What are you waiting for?

Our Assessment dates run from November 2019 to April 2020 and roles WILL be closed once offered.

Don’t delay – these roles attract high competition so APPLY NOW to avoid disappointment.

Employment Details

Contract Hours

37.00

FTE

1.00

Vacancy location

Actual Location

United Kingdom, England, Basildon

Leonardo is a global high-tech player in Aerospace, Defence and Security.
We are inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, a universally recognised symbol of creativity and innovation. Our new name follows our business rationalisation in which we absorbed the activities of AgustaWestland, Alenia Aermacchi, OTO Melara, Selex ES and WASS into one company.

Engineering
Basildon
10,000 employees