2026 Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Degree Apprentice (Level 6)

Job Description: The opportunity:

Leonardooffers a range of Apprenticeships across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paidtraining, coupled with on the job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career. We offer competitive entry salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, with salary increases as you progress.

We support helping you settle into your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhance many aspects of each programme.

The Apprenticeship:

Our Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Degree Apprenticeship programme caters for those who are interested in the practical and theoretical aspects of supporting a fleet of helicopters, helping to maintain airworthy and available aircraft, along with performance analysis of our products.

Over 5 years, you will experience a number of placements across the Engineering department, with the ultimate aim of moving you into a final placement area based on business requirements and the skills displayed during the apprenticeship.

The apprenticeship will start with an Induction into Leonardo, followed by a Yeovil College Induction to ensure that apprenticeship requirements and expectations are fully established.

You will combine your time between Yeovil College and work placements at Leonardo Helicopters, increasing your work placements as you move through the years.

Throughout the apprenticeship you may be placed in some or all of the following departmental areas: Structural Design, Rotor Design, Transmission Design, Materials Laboratory, Structural Mechanical Test and Evaluation Electrical Design, Avionics, Power Generation Systems, Electro-magnetic Environmental Effects, Systems Engineering, Electro-magnetic Environmental Effects and Manufacturing Engineering.

During your apprenticeship, you will:

• Grow your knowledge of an engineering business.
• Develop practical skills in engineering and understanding key processes and technologies.
• Support early careers activities - our apprentices have the opportunity to work as STEM ambassadors in schools, colleges and universities

The starting salary for this role is £21,525

What we need from you: Qualifications

You must have (as a minimum) the following qualifications:

• 96 (240 pre 2017) UCAS points, or above, at A-Level or equivalent (to include Mathematics plus at least one STEM based subject)
• 5 GCSE grades 4 - 9 or grades A - C or equivalent - Mandatory: English, Maths and Science Plus 2 subjects

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with theUK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of PersonnelSecurity Controlsreferred to as National SecurityVetting(NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or DevelopedVetting(DV). For more information and guidance please visit:

Why join us

AtLeonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do, key contributors in shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we're here to help you thrive.

• Time to recharge:Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your future:Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your wellbeing matters:Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-lednetworkschampioning inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding performance: All employees are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Join in our success:Our annual Employee Stock Ownership Plan provides you the opportunity to own shares inLeonardo.
• Tailored perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit:

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 our customers.

If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

Be part of something bigger - apply now!

Primary Location:

GB - Yeovil - Lysander Rd

Contract Type:

Fixed term

Hybrid Working:

Onsite