Engineer - Design

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel : going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we're inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We're proud to play a part in protecting the world's democracies. And we're committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world's aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of 3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

As an Engineer - Design, you will work in cross-discipline teams within different projects. You will support develop, integrate and implement technical solutions and compliance documentation complaint with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule and manufacturing constraints. Hybrid position with travel required as needed (up to 20%)

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and check technical solutions and compliance documentation to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule and manufacturing constraints
• Identify technical problems and apply / integrate solutions
• Execute and implement method plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and complaint to achieve the design and programme objectives
• Support the creation of technical solutions against customer requirements as input to bids and proposals within assigned programmes / projects
• Identify and asses technical risks for own work and propose mitigations withing assigned programmes / projects
• Support or generate test specifications / plans and / or alternate means of compliance (analysis / similarity) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with certification requirements
• Develop designs complaint to cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and design to cost
• Create detailed design definitions of products, inlcuding interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives
• Generate assinged project deliverables, documents, and reports according to the project signature authorizations
• Support technical customer reviews, including formal gate reviews, including the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of product design
• Perform all activites as a level of minimal supervision and support engineers with peer-to-peer reviews
• Identify improvements and support the creation of work instructions, procedures, technical manuals and guidance
• Perform other job responsibilites as assigned

Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

We'll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we've created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It's a culture that won us 'The Best Workplace Culture Award'. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We're also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We arethe place where human dreams, plus humanendeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

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