Manufacturing Engineer – Quality Engineering

Job Description

Job title: Manufacturing Engineer – Quality Engineering

Company: GKN Aerospace

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. With over 15,000 employees across 41 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.

Job Summary

“Join us in putting sustainability at the heart of our business”

It is great to know you are making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you will be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers.

A Truly Global Business

Every day, around the world, we help aircraft fly further, faster and greener. We are the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 15,000 employees across 38 manufacturing sites in 13 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £2.8bn. Together as “One GKN”, we are 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. We are putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050!

The successful candidate will:

• Act as a Quality System Advisor to identified senior managers within the business unit. To provide the Conformance Engineering Group Leader, Engineering Group Leader, Production Group Leader and Business units with independent evidence as to the effectiveness of the Quality Assurance System. To support the self-certification system employed as detailed in the Quality Assurance System. To support the QA Manager/Group Leader in acting as the interface between the site and Suppliers/Customers/Partners / Regulatory bodies.
• Support the Quality Manager and business units by maintaining and monitoring quality standards, ensuring customer satisfaction and coordinating the eradication of non-conformances including customer returns, supplier rejects and working party snags
• Support the delivery process in the compilation of Constituent Assembly Inspection Reports (CAIR’s and Folio’s) for major assemblies, and the release of manufactured parts and assemblies through Pre Delivery Inspections, raising of release documentation (CAA Form 1 , C of C ) and completion of Post Goods Issue transactions (PGI)

How You’ll Contribute

• Monitor product quality on behalf of Engineering and Quality Manager by analysis of failures and trends, reporting to accountable functions for corrective and preventative action.
• Auditing the effectiveness of the corrective/preventative action.
• Co-ordinate reported quality problems (e.g. 8Ds, customer returns, working party snags, external rejects), conducting initial investigations, assessing probable cause, informing the accountable function and ensuring corrective action is taken to prevent recurrence as detailed by the Conformance Engineering Group Leader.
• Define quality processes, conducting reviews of quality documentation i.e. Manufacturing Instructions, Departmental procedures etc.
• To guide and advise the Production Group Leaders of Product Assurance matters, utilizing quality tools and techniques when eliminating root causes; facilitating MRB/CAB activities and provide product quality performance indicators, including visual management.
• To act as a guide and point of contact for Customer and Supplier representatives as necessary, including escalation of Quality Alerts; escalation of external rejects through the Procurement organization; definition of Customer protection activities for a given issue including communication with Customer on progression of resolution; responding to Customer 8Ds within the agreed timescales ( D3 within 24hrs)
• Provide support to the Conformance Engineering Group Leader in the compilation and maintenance of Quality Plans which are fit for purpose and take into account potential non-conformance probability and severity factors
• Assist the Conformance Engineering Group Leader in defining quality processes, ensuring configuration status is in accordance with procedures and conducting reviews of quality documentation i.e. Manufacturing Instructions, Departmental procedures etc.
• Responsibility for short term planning of their given tasks.

What You’ll Bring

Applicants must have a strong background in the aerospace engineering or manufacturing including:-

• Minimum 5 years aerospace industry experience.
• Knowledge of/experience with manufacturing and assembly of metallic/composite aircraft structures.
• Effective communication skills for liaising with a wide range of people and departments both internal and external to the company at all levels of the organization.
• Flexibility in working as a committed team player in a fast paced, customer focused environment.
• Sound knowledge of airworthiness regulations in production, particularly Part 21 Subpart
• Sound knowledge of configuration management principles and processes.
• Demonstrated problem solving capabilities/skills.

What We’ll Offer

Industry Leading Pension Scheme; we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis

• Opportunity to earn up to 15% bonus + Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working schedule with a 12noon finish on a Friday
• Income protection + Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

As well as a competitive package, we will offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We will support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That is the beauty of being part of a global business, once you are on board, you will never know where you career journey may take you!

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. 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’. 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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Expected salary:

Location: Bristol Area

Job date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 07:38:27 GMT

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