Hardware Engineering Placement

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About L3 Commercial Training Solutions

L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) is a world leader in providing intelligent total training solutions for pilots and maintainers across a wide range of commercial platforms. L3 CTS provides a full spectrum of state-of-the-art training solutions, including cadet pilot training, airline training, aircrew resourcing, training centers and high-fidelity simulation products.

Our mission is to lead the way in commercial aviation training, creating safer skies through integrated solutions to diverse training, resourcing and simulation challenges.

Do you want to help us reshape the future of commercial aviation training & systems?

Hardware Engineering Placement

We’re looking for the next generation who will continue to innovate in our business and deliver to our customers within the aviation industry. Our placements opportunities will see you gaining invaluable experience in the real world.

You will be working alongside a fully skilled and experienced team where you will share in the everyday challenges, develop new skills and acquire a fascinating insight into our business.

As a Hardware undergraduate Placement you will be working in a large community of Hardware Engineers (as well as Systems and Software Engineers), with a wide variety of experience. You will be expected to support our state of the art product with mechanical and electrical design, development, integration and test of flight simulator devices. This typically is the full development life cycle from requirements analysis through to customer acceptance and regulatory certification. It includes aircraft data analysis and design, the development of in house design models and the integration of hardware, and integration of third party hardware and model from aircraft manufacturers and equipment vendors.

We welcome applications for our three-month and 12-month Placements from engineering students at any stage of their degree.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out assigned hardware product engineering design tasks under supervision
• Creation/modification of designs
• Provide technical support to senior project engineering roles
• Maintaining plans/schedules and reporting progress.
• Execute assigned design tasks using appropriate tools and processes
• Integration of hardware and hardware software- systems.
• Testing, fault finding and problem rectification.
• Interfacing with customers and aviation regulators.
• Supporting repeat activities on a programme.

Desired skills, qualifications and experience

• Enthusiastic about modern technologies and Aerospace systems
• The ability to work under the supervision of others and to follow processes and instructions
• Some capability in use of Creo 3 software
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• An ability to manage and develop your own career
• The ability to work proactively and employ initiative to propose new ideas.
• Self-motivation with the ability to be innovative and think laterally to resolve issues, challenge working methods, champion change and help develop the function to achieve maximum effectiveness.

Key Benefits Include:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days paid annual holiday, plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)
• Employee Assistance Programme

We want to hear from the bold and the bright. Make your application stand out, be passionate about yourself and what you do!

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