Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Chemical Process

GKN Aerospace •

El Cajon, California, 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

The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer – Material and Processes will provide technical expertise at local level for operational and development Programs to enable and deliver zero defect projects utilizing engineering and problem solving skills. Accountable for delivering robust, capable manufacturing process technology as it applies to materials, tooling, part fabrication and assembly.

Job Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of chemical processes, industrial wastewater treatment system, and other chemical related manufacturing processes.
• Act as SME in chemical processing field – electroplating, mechanical cleaning, chemical cleaning, chemical stripping, and chemical process control.
• Aligns our operational processes to local regulations and industry standards.
• Provides solutions for production issues through equipment troubleshooting, data analysis, and process improvement methodologies.
• Conducting root causes analysis, implementing possible solutions to resolve production issues, and process improvement.
• Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
• Technical expertise at a local project level in governance and deployment of manufacturing development and integration for production within GKN Aerospace.
• Provides technical expertise to rapidly solve issues pertaining to vendor schedule and/or quality.
• Breaks down technical problems, risk, opportunities, in the correct order to create products and add value to GKN Aerospace through creating Zero Defects
• Leads positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as co-workers
• Continuously improve production processes by implementing Lean initiatives.
• Provide local project technical oversight for the development of manufacturing process solutions to complex problems through:
• Local project technical lead for the implementation of production planning, from original concept through to production. Design these processes to a high level of process capability through utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite.
• Implement the global process for product development, first article development, configuration changes, build process definition and implementation.

Job Requirements:
Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Manufacturing, Aerospace, Chemical, Mechanical… etc.)
• 3+ Years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering
• 5+ years of experience working with chemicals and hazardous material.
• Must be able to perform work subject to ITAR/EAR regulations and/or program requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:
• GKN experience
• Nadcap process
• Experience working with titanium and titanium alloys
• Aerospace industry experience
• Experience in an MRO organization is strongly preferred
• Working knowledge of quality system models such as ISO9000, AS9100, or D1-9000
• Increasingly able to provide Technical input at all levels of work
• Identifies and anticipates technical problems and offers solutions

Compensation Range

The Compensation range for this position is between $99,716 - 124,645.

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 #: 1122049501

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Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Chemical Process

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