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At an event hosted at Leonardo's Yeovil helicopter facility on 22 August, the Somerset town marked its proud heritage and bright future in UK aerospace to celebrate its official recognition as the “Home of British Helicopters”.
Leonardo recently celebrated South Asian Heritage Month to recognise and honour the diverse cultures, histories and contributions of South Asian communities within our organisation. Read some of their stories.
In partnership with WithYouWithMe (WYWM), Leonardo has embarked on a programme to implement skills-based talent management. Faced with a modern security landscape characterised by rapid technological change and ever-evolving threats, Leonardo recognised a need to expand its cyber teams in a way that enables diversity of thought, skills and insight.
Discover more about Leonardo’s complete range of advanced in-house designed, developed and manufactured training services, and how it helps deliver operational success for AW149 customers.
Kristy Ireland, a Graduate Systems Engineer at Leonardo, was one of the young people responsible for organising a recent sector-wider event that raised awareness and celebrated neurodiversity. Kristy is the Events Lead for the ADS New Professionals Forum (NPF). ADS is the trade association for the UK aerospace, defence and security sector and one of the NPF’s key objectives for 2023 is to identify and diversify forum’s reach, representation and knowledge across areas of under-represented talent.
As part of its wide-ranging sustainability commitments, Leonardo has signed up to the Defence Aviation Net Zero Strategy, which was released on 12 July at the Global Air & Space Chiefs' Conference and signed at the Royal International Air Tattoo over the past weekend. The Defence Aviation Net Zero Strategy outlines the steps necessary to meet the commitment to decarbonise the defence sector’s aviation capability, whilst also mitigating potential risks to operational effectiveness that are likely to arise because of climate change. It provides an important advantage, enabling robust, resilient operations through a collaborative framework led jointly by the Royal Air Force and industry.
Leonardo has launched a new research partnership with the National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), hosted by Newcastle University. This follows the company's announcement in February that it will be bringing 200 jobs to Newcastle city centre with the opening of its eighth UK site.
Leonardo has won the Best Flexible Benefits Plan category in the Employee Benefits Awards 2023. Find out why the judges called Leonardo’s scheme ‘a great example of how to align a people strategy with the delivery of a comprehensive range of benefits.
Along with her fellow walkers, Kerrie and Adi, Leonardo Training Co-ordinator, Yvonne Sykes, took on the infamous Cateran Yomp in early June. Sponsored by Leonardo, the event is run by and supports ABF – the national charity for the British Army. Find out more.
To mark Learning Disability Week 2023, Sean Higgins, a Test Equipment Engineer based at Leonardo’s site in Yeovil, explains how he battled undiagnosed learning disabilities and the resulting mental health strain for more than 30 years of his life, while still pursuing his engineering career.
