Summer Trainee in Mechanical Engineering at Kempower working on early - phase product concepting and prototyping for EV charging solutions.
About the role
- Principal Design Engineer in the Transparencies team at GKN Aerospace, leading innovative design solutions and ensuring compliance in aerospace projects. Working on complex product development across multiple aerospace programmes with a focus on design integrity.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical authority for transparency design across multiple programmes, ensuring design integrity, safety, and compliance with customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements
- Lead the definition of design standards and engineering best practices for transparency systems and approve design solutions, specifications, concessions, rework schemes, and compliance documentation
- Provide expert guidance on requirements management, materials selection, structural performance, optical performance, manufacturing processes and qualification methods
- Represent Design function in MRBs and serve as the primary escalation point for all MRB-related queries, exercising technical authority to determine and approve the disposition of non conforming parts
- Define and validate test methods and/or alternate means of compliance (analysis/similarity) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with requirements
- Act as a senior technical interface with customers, suppliers, regulatory bodies, and internal stakeholders. Communicate complex technical information clearly to both technical and non technical audiences
- Lead major technical reviews, gate reviews, and customer design reviews, ensuring high quality technical data and presentations
- Identify, assess, and manage technical risks across programmes, proposing mitigation strategies and influencing programme direction
- Support capability development within the Transparency Systems team including training, knowledge capture, and succession planning
Requirements
- Degree in Aerospace, Mechanical or similar
- Experience in Aerospace design / or Aerospace product development
- Deep understanding of the full product lifecycle, design practices, manufacturing processes, and airworthiness requirements
- Proven ability to lead complex engineering work packages and solve complex technical problems using evidence based, methodical approaches
- Familiarity with digital engineering and model based design preferably using CATIA V5
- Excellent communication skills, able to create clear, concise, and accurate technical content and present to senior stakeholders
- Expert user of CATIA V5 for complex modelling and drawing creation (desirable)
- Chartered Engineer status (CEng) (desirable)
- Experience working with defence customers and regulatory authorities (desirable)
- Experience in transparencies, composites, or specialist structures/ systems (desirable)
Benefits
- Competitive salary dependent on experience
- The opportunity to earn up to 15% bonus
- Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
- Life Assurance 8 x 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
- Free onsite parking
- Local gym discount
- Free airport parking
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- A collaborative, dynamic working environment
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