Job Description:
At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for two enthusiastic graduates who are motivated to develop the necessary skills to become either an Optical Engineer or Laser Engineer.
Leonardo is a global leader in defence electronics and delivers mission critical systems for situational awareness, electronic warfare and surveillance across land, sea and air. Leonardo UK is leading effort to push the technical boundaries associated with advanced tactical sensing, laser direct energy, IR counter measures, machine learning and defensive EO-systems. By joining this growing team, you have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to play a fundamental role in multiple defence programmes of critical national importance, and to shape the future of Leonardo UK.
The newly enhanced Graduate programme will offer you 18 months of development, with placements in three development phases. You will be asked to develop skills to support the design and development of our world leading electro-optics products under the mentorship of experienced Lasers and Optical Engineers. You will learn how to use state-of-the-art tools and technology to explore all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, concept design, and design for manufacture, implementation, test, build and product support. You will interface with customers (internal and external) on many factors within the design and liaise closely with Engineers from other disciplines as well as liaising with Project Managers and Procurement on helping ensure schedule and cost are met.
The opportunity:
Your role as a Leonardo Graduate Laser Engineer will be to support the design and development of our world leading radar and electro-optics products under the guidance of experienced Lasers and Optical Engineers.
You will learn how to use state-of-the-art tools and technology to explore all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, concept design, and design for manufacture, implementation, test, build and product support. You will interface with customers (internal and external) on many factors within the design and liaise closely with Engineers from other disciplines as well as liaising with Project Managers and Procurement on helping ensure schedule and cost are met.
What you’ll do as a Graduate Optical Engineer:
As a Graduate Optical Engineer, you will manage your own development towards attaining Optical Engineer level through the Graduate Development Scheme over 18 months.
To achieve this goal, you will be placed in programmes responsible for progressing different parts of a product life-cycle:
1. New product introduction: tasked with learning the core concepts required to increase the manufacturing rate, such as modelling existing designs to identify root-cause analysis of observed problems and use of metrology to validate theories.
2. Detailed product design: responsible for developing or improving existing designs and supporting the transfer of optical models into detailed optical and system requirements.
3. Novel concepts: to develop technologies both future and improvement of existing products.
Throughout these placements you will learn skills required to communicate technical concepts across a wide array of disciplines. In addition, you will be expected to support optical procurement and the wider product team in the creation and changing of drawings, tolerancing and how to develop experiments to prove capability of your designs. Finally, you will be tasked with performing technical reviews to assess the limits on technical capability and for creating and conducting optical tests to lower the technical risks of novel EO-Systems and solutions identified as part of wider technological reviews.
What you’ll do as a Graduate Laser Engineer:
As a Graduate Laser Engineer, you will manage your own development towards attaining Laser Engineer level through the Graduate Development Scheme over 18 months.
To achieve this goal, you will be placed in three different laser programmes:
1. Developing compact and efficient solid-state laser designs.
2. Development of the productionised High-Power Fiber laser.
3. Development of novel concepts in laser design.
You will eventually take ownership of developing parts of these laser designs and will apply computational modelling techniques for the analysis of these lasers. This work will be underpinned by conducting practical work within Leonardo's Laser Centre of Excellence Laboratories.
In each of these roles, you will be asked to learn the skills required to become a professional Optical or Laser Engineer, while exploring new techniques and sharing any new best practices amongst your team. Throughout this development, you will be working to timescales, contributing across a multi-disciplined team and undertaking day-to-day engineering activities with some guidance and support. Finally, you will be expected to understand why decisions are made in a technical project and their relationship to project success criteria.
This role provides the unique opportunity to influence the progress, direction and successful delivery of the next generation of lasers within one of the largest manufacturers of advanced solid-state military lasers in the world.
What we need from you:
1. Related Master’s degree (e.g. Physics)
2. An understanding of laser physics and either solid-state or fibre laser engineering.
3. Experience working in laser research or development, such as undergraduate projects.
4. Experience with technical writing and project planning.
5. Strong analytical, modelling skills and laboratory skills.
6. Evidence of successfully working in a team.
7. Strong in-person and remote communication skills.
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.
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.
1. Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us.
2. Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance).
3. Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year.
4. Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution).
5. 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).
6. Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme.
7. Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera.
8. Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member.
9. Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below.
For a full list of our Company benefits please visit our website.
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!
Primary Location:
GB - Edinburgh
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hybrid Working:
Hybrid
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