Manufacturing Engineer - Configuration, Bristol City

Manufacturing Engineer – Configuration, Bristol City

Client: GKN Aerospace

Location: Bristol City, United Kingdom

Job Category: Manufacturing

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: cd23d5315140

Job Views: 7

Posted: 03.03.2025

Expiry Date: 17.04.2025

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.

Job Summary

A Truly Global Business. Every day, around the world, we help aircraft fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. 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.

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.

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 redefining processes. 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 requests, 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, analyze and impact assess customer design proposals and Condition of Supply changes utilizing 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 escalate setbacks as needed.
• Participates in developing, establishing and maintaining procedures, processes and instructions 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 along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

• Ability to read Engineering Drawings.
• SAP ERP tool knowledge.
• PC literate & fully conversant with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
• Excellent team player with effective people skills to interface with people at all levels.
• 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.
• CMII Qualified.
• BSc in Engineering.

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:

• 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.

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 are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

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