Senior Engineer - Design

GKN Aerospace •

Newington, Connecticut, United States

Position Type: Permanent

Job Description:

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 a Senior Design Engineer you will 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. The senior design engineer will integrate with the design team in Sweden and with Engineering Disciplines at P&W to support the GTF and GP7000 commercial programs.

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 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 programs/projects.
•   Generate and check test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance (analysis/similarity/test) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with certification requirements.
•   Develop and check/approve designs compliant to cost and design requirements
•   Create and check/approve design definitions of a workpackage, including integration, interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives.
•   Generate or review, and sign as appropriate the assigned project deliverables, documents, and reports according to the project signature authorizations.
•   Mentor and development of engineers within assigned programmes.
•   Support and participate in technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews, including the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of a workpackage.
•   Perform all activities at a level of minimal supervision and guide other engineers within the work package as required.
•   Identify improvements and create and/or check the work instructions, procedures, technical manuals, and guidelines.
•   Support the qualification process of products within a workpackage, and prepare and/or check compliance documentation to internal, customer, and regulatory requirements, where applicable.
•   Delivery of the Engineering Deliverables meeting the applicable Technical Requirements against agreed Schedule and Cost Objectives.
•   Development or Initiation of new or improved best Practices and working Standards;
•   Contributing to establishing Knowledge and Experience (Knowledge Management, Tool and Process Enhancements and Lessons Learned) for the Function.
•   Providing effective Communication within the (Program) Team and with Stakeholders outside the Team.

Job Requirements:
Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field
•   7+ years of relevant experience gained within an engineering discipline, ideally within an aerospace environment and in multi-disciplinary engineering project teams (Design/CM, EWIS, Analysis, M&P, Manufacturing/ Industrialization).
•   3+ years’ experience on aerospace static components
•   Previously held (internal) or capable of providing technical approval authority (i.e. recognized as having appropriate technical seniority for Design, Analysis, etc…).
•   Must be able to perform work subject to ITAR regulations and/or program requirements.

Preferred Qualifications
• Master's degree in (Aerospace) Engineering or equivalent working and thinking Level gained through experience.
•   Having worked in multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams in an international setting.
•   Experience with developing and coaching people.
•   Ability to mentor and coach Engineers in the Delivery of their specific Task and supporting their professional Growth.
•   Experience with new product development and aftermarket support
•   Able to act under own initiative in relation to the assigned tasks within defined functional procedures / governance.
•   The ability to have technical discussions with customers and suppliers as require
•   Able to analyze and interpret customer requirements.
•   Relationship building at Levels up to and including senior management level.
•   Able to work with cross-functional Teams that will typically include (in addition to the Design Engineering Team) Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Commercial. Procurement, Quality and Suppliers.
•   Has excellent judgement in considering when escalation is appropriate. Skilled user in Microsoft Office.
•   Must possess a high level of engineering functional knowledge and experience preferably across multiple disciplines in order to successfully manage the technical delivery team.
•   Must possess a high level of problem-solving skills in both technical and program management disciplines to successfully manage the technical activities on a project to help achieve the overall business objectives of the program.
•   Strong minded, convincing and committed, focused on delivery, must be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
•   Ability to clearly present data, reports and presentations to facilitate the decision-making process at all levels of the business.

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.

Job Ident #: 1136641501

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