Overview

Aerostructures Design Engineer role based at GKN's Global Technology Centre in Bristol, with flexible hybrid working. The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for the design, development, and support of aircraft structural components and assemblies (e.g., wings, movables, empennage, pylons). You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including stress engineers, manufacturing, configuration, and systems integration. If you have a hunger for continuous learning, growth and curiosity, we would like to hear from you!

How You\'ll Contribute

• 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 methods, plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant 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 assess technical risk for own work and propose mitigations within 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 compliant to cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as DFMA and design to cost
• Create detailed design definitions of products, including interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives
• Generate assigned project deliverables, documents, and reports according to the project signature authorizations
• Support technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews, including the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of product design
• Process documentation such as concessions and non-conformances, and provide technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products, designs, and compliance documentation
• Perform all activities at a level of minimal supervision and support other engineers with peer-to-peer reviews
• Identify improvements and support the creation of work instructions, procedures, technical manuals, and guidelines
• Support operations and the manufacturing engineering team in translating the product design and manufacturing requirements of a product into a manufacturing design of a product during prototype build and serial manufacturing, where applicable
• Understand the qualification process of products, and prepare compliance documentation to internal, customer, and regulatory requirements, where applicable

Qualifications

• Relevant technical qualification (Bachelor, Master or equivalent) or a relevant level of experience to perform the engineering tasks
• Proven experience gained within an engineering discipline, ideally within an aerospace environment and in multi-disciplinary engineering project teams (Design/CM, EWIS, M&P, Manufacturing/Industrialisation)
• Ability to work towards holding a check / approval status
• Confident to act under own initiative in relation to the assigned tasks within defined functional procedures / governance
• Experienced in communicating technical information to a wide audience within the engineering business
• Basic knowledge of Lean Principles
• Experienced in analysing and interpreting customer requirements
• Desirable: Awareness of other functions (Operations, Production, Supplier Management)
• Desirable: Able to support budget compliance
• Desirable: Worked in cross-cultural teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme — company matches contributions up to 8% on a 1:1.5 basis
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Income protection
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel and is committed to sustainability at the centre of everything we do. We have a diverse and inclusive culture and actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please get in touch. We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.