Senior Systems Engineer

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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.

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 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 07:30-16:30, Monday to Thursday, and 07:30-12:30 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.

• 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

To help us make a difference, you’ll 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
  • Intermedia…