Manufacturing Engineer

5 months ago

Solihull, United Kingdom GKN Aerospace Full time

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

A Truly Global Business 
Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £3.35bn. Together as “one GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. We’re putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050 
Making a Difference 
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.
At our GKN Filton site, we specialise in the design and manufacture of large complex structural wing assemblies, detailed metallic components and wing systems for a combination of both civil and military aircraft. We have an new exciting and career defining opportunity for a 
Manufacturing Engineer - Configuration.

The Configuration Management / Manufacturing Engineering role is a very broad role encompassing many aspects of engineering and Change management activities. It is a customer facing role that requires interaction with both customer and supplier to ensure all the elements of change are understood including quality, engineering and cost.

As a Configuration Manufacturing Engineer you will play an important role supporting our change and planning of change multifunctionally. From planning changes to design to re defining process. The successful candidate will be confident in delivery & presentation to a variety of audiences and will be able to interact with stakeholders of all levels. 

You will work within a dynamic, motivated and fast paced team focusing on a strategic approach to the role implementing and planning change across the business where needed.

How You'll Contribute

Confers with inter-departmental personnel to implement Internal and external change request, resolve system errors, and provide technical feedback to customer Manage larger complex, or multiple smaller projects/mods from programme or customer approval through introduction to production and delivery to customer. Recognize opportunities for improvement within Day to Day processes and recommend and implement solutions enabling a CI and lean working environment Breakdown, analyses and impact assess customer design proposals and Condition of Supply changes utilising data provided to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and lead time in implementing the proposal. Create a Change implementation plan for every Change being embodied to track progress, Ensuring mods are delivered on customer agreed POE, within scope and within agreed costs. Manage and validate all customer expectations and all stakeholder relationships, Report and escalating setbacks as needed Participates in developing, establishing and maintaining procedures, process and instruction for engineering activities Run programme/ change review boards to manage the introduction of new processes into the manufacturing business  Other duties as assigned

What You'll Bring

To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

Essential: 

Ability to read Engineering Drawings SAP ERP tool - Knoweledge  PC Literate & fully conversant with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word Excellent team player and effective people skills to interface with people at all levels and  Accuracy and attention to detail essential  Excellent verbal and written communication skills Self-motivated , Driven and the ability to organise own workload  Must be flexible and able to handle multiple and changing priorities Experience of working to strict deadlines in a demanding and pressured environment  HNC / HND in an Engineering Discipline

Desirable:

CMII Qualified  BSc in Engineering   Prince2 or equivalent Project Management qualification


We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. The Manufacturing Engineer Configuration will have excellent organisational and verbal and non-verbal communication skills with positive can-do attitude. They will have the ability to working autonomously and also part of a wider team.

Please note this is a site based role and the role does not offer sponsorship 

What We'll Offer

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

Competitive Salary  Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your 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 Structured training plans A collaborative, dynamic working environment with significant opportunities to grow your career

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you 

Why Join Us 


A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. 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’ last year. 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’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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