Senior Engineer - Analysis

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

To develop, integrate, implement, and verify technical solutions and compliance documentation compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints.

The primary job responsibility is to work on Aero Engine components and to take complete ownership of his or her work on various tasks involved in Design Engineering. Candidate shall support independently all FE calculations and verification of aero-engine components. The execution will be in accordance with established design practices and work instructions.

Candidate should able to take up quickly necessary activities to evaluate and justify non-conformances and field issues in cross functional environment. He or she shall drive and lead product improvements activities, method development and continuous improvement activities through various internal forums of GKN. He should coach/mentor Junior engineers

Job Responsibilities

Individual contributor working in OE engineering team delivering analysis tasks mainly Solid mechanics for a part / product in line with functional KPI of the organization.

Supporting the structural design process to ensure required quality is achieved within direct area of responsibility

Supporting continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency

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.

Identify and assess technical risk for own work and propose mitigations within assigned programmes/projects.

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. He will make sure OTD & FTR always above the set target for his/her team

Identify improvements and support the creation of work instructions, procedures, technical manuals, and guidelines.

Essential

Job Qualifications

Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Must have 12+ years’ experience in Stress/ life (Initiation/Propagation) analysis through FEM

Excellent fundamentals in Solid Mechanics, knowledge on composite materials & hand calculations

Experience in performing structural analysis to verify various product requirements

Ability to interpret results, applying physics and propose design solutions

Knowledge of tools such as Simcenter3D, HYPERMESH and ANSYS, for meshing and analysis along with demonstrated capability in using these tools effectively

Good product knowledge related to aero engines. Especially IMC/TEC or any other casings

Contributed to the technical development of processes, products or people.

Desirable

Customization and Programming skills, preferably using ANYSYS APDL/Python

Good communication skills in English both oral and written

Good technical report writing skills

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Self-driven individual who can expand his/her skills with on-job training

Ability to work as a team player in a fast paced and deadline driven environment

LEAN culture and mind-set

Personal Attributes

Be capable of:

• Contribute to teams through change activities, ensuring continuous two way communication.
• Focus on continuous improvement and problem solving.
• Commit to relationship building with customers and colleagues.
• Work effectively with diverse groups of people.
  
  

Consistently Demonstrate The Following Attributes And Values

• Recognise what people need from you and respond flexibly.
• Demonstrates interpersonal sensitivity.
• Builds confidence in others.
• Hunger for continuous learning, growth and curiosity.
• Stretch out of comfort zone.
• Challenge assumptions and hearsay, and look for evidence.
• Trusts people to do their job.
  
  

Personal Knowledge

• Knows what drives profit within their business area.
• Knows the key stakeholders.
• In depth knowledge of own industry and customers.
  
  

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 are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

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