Leonardo to hire hundreds of scientists and engineers for Newcastle site

Leonardo is to bolster its “8,000-strong” team in the UK by recruiting around 200 “mainly high-value science and engineering roles” for a new high-technology facility in Newcastle. The location, at the Newcastle Helix, will be “a ground-breaking 24-acre city centre development that brings together industry leaders, businesses, and top researchers into an internationally renowned innovation cluster”. Leonardo said the new facility would lead to “over £185 million of economic benefit in the region over the next ten years” and would allow it “to access talent from across the north-east of England and build closer links with small and medium sized