Senior Systems Engineer

Company 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, were inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. Were proud to play a part in protecting the worlds democracies. And were 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 worlds aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job description:

Job Summary GKN Aerospace is an original aerospace innovator. Its great to know youre making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play youll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers. Based at our Luton manufacturing plant youll 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 onsite parking, food hub and vending machines. We are seeking a Senior Engineer with a strong Systems Engineering background to join our Luton manufacturing team and contribute to the future of aviation.

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for developing, integrating, implementing, and verifying technical solutions and associated compliance documentation, ensuring alignment with all applicable customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, while meeting agreed programme, schedule, and manufacturing constraints. This is a very exciting and potentially career defining opportunity. You will be a leading member of the team embarking on a significant and challenging technology development project, where we are developing new Ice Detection Systems for aerospace applications.

Our core working hours at the Luton site are 07:3016:30, Monday to Thursday, and 07:3012:30 on Fridays. The role includes occasional national travel to support customer and supplier visits, as well as visits to our Global Technology Centre in Bristol. We also offer a hybrid working arrangement, with the opportunity to work from home for up to two days per week, depending on business needs.

Job Responsibilities 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 Profile description:
What You'll Bring To help us make a difference, youll bring your passion and talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:
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. Desirable:

Working experience delivering system designs using MBSE toolbox (e.g. SysML) Experience in safety…