Senior Systems Engineer

Company Overview

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 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.

GKN Aerospace is an original aerospace innovator. 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, Dream liner, Airbus A320, Agusta Westland, 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 parking, food hub and vending machines.

• Quality assurance reviewer of design deliverables created by the GKN Defence - Systems Engineering team
• Data analysis and reporting into qualification arguments and submissions for GKN Defence avionic, control systems and sub‑systems
• Release of stakeholder and internal technical communications
• Technical work breakdown of program planning objectives
• Assure best practice development within systems engineering excellence
• Mentor and develop systems engineering team members
• System engineering inputs to technology incubator process

• Essential: HNC, degree or equivalent experience in electrical or systems engineering
• Significant experience delivering designs for electro‑mechanical, sensing or controller systems within an engineering environment
• Electronics PCB design experience
• Proven design and delivery of high quality and reliable systems in a complex regulatory environment (e.g. MIL‑STD, TUV cert, etc)
• Proven track record (minimum 1 project), in compliance planning and verification & validation analysis for product release
• Advanced experience of the Systems Development Lifecycle process
• Intermediate experience of requirement decomposition and tools (e.g. DOORS)
• Intermediate experience defining system / modular architecture
• Advanced experience developing system control functions & logic models
• Ability to design and set‑up experiments and fixtures for testing
• CATIA V5 interrogator (minimum)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications
• Essential General
  
  Experience:
  
  Technical leadership – Ability to mentor develop functional team members
• Confident presenting technical information to a wider audience including senior stakeholders and internal customers
• Live the culture of Plan‑Do‑Check‑Act and continuous improvement
• Hands‑on approach – Have a real desire to be up close to the components and people that build our systems

• Working experience delivering system designs using MBSE toolbox (e.g. SysML)
• Experience in safety assessment software / toolbox FTA and FMEA (e.g. ANSYS Medini, Isograph)
• Proficiency in multi‑domain modelling/simulation packages (e.g. MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, Amesim)

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• The opportunity to earn up to 15% bonus
• Industry‑leading pension scheme – well match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• Life assurance 8 × 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
• Electric Vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice scheme…