Design Engineer

This is more than a CAD role, as a Design Engineer you will be responsible for creating and maintaining product definition and ensuring ongoing product performance against requirements. Working across the product lifecycle you will be involved in:

• New product development activities including requirements management, geometric design, materials selection, specifications, product verification, qualification and certification testing.
• Product sustaining activities including MRB, customer concession management, manufacturing problem solving, engineering change management and in service technical support to our customers as a part of an Integrated Programme Team.
• Continuous improvement of products, processes, tools and design handbooks to ensure the highest standards of quality and compliance to evolving customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements.

This is a full time position of 37 hours per week, offering flexibility with working hours as arranged with the manager. There may be the opportunity to work from home one day a week, dependent on business need. You may be required to undertake occasional ad-hoc travel nationally and internationally, to meet suppliers, customers and visit other GKN Aerospace sites. Job Responsibilities

• Develop design solutions compliant to customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements within assigned programmes/ projects budget and timescale.
• Create and maintain design definition documents including drawings, specifications and reports detailing dimensions, materials, manufacturing process requirements and tolerances needed to ensure functional design requirements are met.
• Understand the qualification process of products and prepare compliance documentation to internal, customer, and regulatory requirements where applicable.
• Represent Design Engineering function in Integrated Program Teams (IPT) and Material Review Board (MRB).
• Identify and resolve product non-compliances with drawing, specifications, or standards. Provide technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products. Create supporting documents such as permits, concessions, rework schemes etc.
• Support internal and external technical reviews including formal gate reviews by creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of product design.
• Contribute to the development of GKN as a 'Great Place to Work', aligned with the core principles - safe, innovative, open & honest, care & respect, and ownership.
• Ensure EHS policy and process adherence for your activities, and you will contribute to a proactive EHS culture in the wider team.
• Take an active role in team engagement surveys, activities and in creating a personal development plan supported by your line manager

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or any relevant Engineering field

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, able to create clear, concise and accurate technical content.

• Logical and methodical approach to task planning and be able to demonstrate an evidence-based approach to decision making and problem solving.

• Able to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

• Working knowledge of MS Office suite. Desirable:

• Previous experience in Aerospace sector

• Experience of Configuration Control & Change Management

• Awareness of Aerospace certification requirements.

• Experience of using CAD software, preferably CATIA V5.

• Experience of using SAP

You should have an understanding of the product development lifecycle, design practices and manufacturing methods. This is a hands on role, and the work will entail a high level of collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering and Operations as part of an integrated programme team to ensure both technical and programme objectives are met. You should be adaptable in your approach to work, and be willing to understudy other team members in their areas of responsibility to ensure overall department objectives are met.

As a Design Engineer, you will be naturally detail oriented and appreciate the need for procedural compliance to meet both regulatory requirements and maintain product safety. Your proactive nature will enable you to understand and adapt to new technology areas quickly. Your good communication skills shall enable you to confidently engage with a wide variety of internal stakeholders. You should seek to increase/deepen own technical knowledge through study, training, collaborative working and continual professional development.

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we'll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 185 hours holiday + bank holidays
• Income protection
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
• Free onsite parking
• Local gym discount
• 50% off local travel card
• Free airport Dart
• Free airport parking
• Discount with a local nursery and preschool childcare setting
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

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 globally, across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world's aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career., It's great to know you're making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you'll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers. Based at our Luton manufacturing plant you'll do just that. Established in 1993, GKN Aerospace in Luton is a world leader in commercial and military ice protection systems and transparencies. Offering a full range of capabilities; design, analysis, testing, certification and manufacture of electro-thermal ice protection, military fast jet canopies and flight deck windows to over 20 programmes including: Boeing 787, Dreamliner, Airbus A320, AgustaWestland, AW101, Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. Our customers include Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopters, Textron, BAE Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Leonardo. Our Luton site is home to 370+ employees and onsite facilities including onsite parking, food hub and vending machines., 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. ?, Making Aerospace Fit for the Natural World. Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We're the world's leading multi-technology tier one aerospace supplier. We develop, build and supply an extensive range of advanced aerospace systems, components and technologies for use in Defence and Commercial aircraft ranging from helicopters and business jets to passenger planes and the most advanced fighter aircrafts. Please let me know if you are succesful with this. If not, please could you send through a screenshot of the error message? Our technology is on-board 100,000 flights a day and we're a market leader in Aero structures, Engine Systems, Transparencies and Wiring Systems. We're a truly global business, with 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries serving over 90% of the world's aircraft and engine manufacturers. In the UK we operate across 5 performance centres; Bristol Filton, Bristol Western Approach, Bristol Global Technology Centre, Luton and Cowes (Isle of Wight). People. Our people work with passion and determination; proud that our work impacts our company, industry and planet. We draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. We build our teams on trust and respect, we believe there is power in people, but even greater power in teams. Whether you're looking to start your career at the forefront of engineering as an Apprentice, Intern, Graduate or Associate, work in a global support role, work regionally in one our performance centres, or as an executive helping to lead our business, there is plenty of opportunity to make an impact. We can offer you a career that can go in many directions thanks to our breadth of international opportunities. Planet. Our ambition to be the most sustainable partner in the sky has real purpose and is opening up a world of fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. In the last decade we've made record investments into research and development to accelerate sustainable aviation and the ultimate goal of net zero by 2050. We've invested deeply in the future of flight through new materials and processes, electrification and hydrogen propulsion technologies. We're doing everything possible now to reduce emissions and waste in our manufacturing processes, making aerospace fit for the natural world., We're a tier 1 supplier to the aerospace industries biggest names, so a career at GKN Aerospace can truly offer you an unrivalled breath of experience to achieve your full potential. We want you to succeed and progress. We support our employees with training; developing their capabilities and helping realise their aspirations.