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. Job Summary GKN Aerospace is an original aerospace innovator. For decades, GKN Aerospace technologies have inspired and industrialised the aerospace industry, combining engineering and technological excellence. All major aircraft and engine manufacturers rely on our advanced technologies. Going forward we will further enhance our capability by building a network of Global Technology Centres (GTC). GKN Aerospace Engineering Offices in Cowes, Isle of Wight builds upon a 70 years heritage of technology research and development. Civil and Defence teams work within our manufacturing locations representing a significant part of our history and continue to be an investment for our future business. We strive to ensure that GKN Aerospace continues to be the greatest place to work, as much as the Isle of Wight is the best place to live. Alternatively as part of the Defence Engineering team you could be located at our UK GTC in Bristol or our GKN site in Luton with travel as appropriate to the Isle of Wight facility to support the development of Systems Engineering based products for manufacture. Join us and be part of Defence - Systems Engineering & Technology at GKN Aerospace. We are a growing team, with a mission to be the most trusted product and technology development and support partner to our internal and external defence customers, through our use of world-class people, processes and differentiated technologies. We are looking for a Principal Engineer with a background in Electrical/Mechanical Systems Engineering to help shape the future of flight. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise/input and validation towards project development teams. They will be the key pillar leading the development and integration of technical solutions compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints. Additionally the role enables subject matter expertise consultation, outside of immediate development programs, alongside the systems engineering technical authority. 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. This four year project will be a major steppingstone towards achieving the next generation of avionics for customer Tilt-Rotors. The project will operate from our GKN facilities in Cowes, Isle of Wight and there is the requirement to be flexible with International travel within Europe and to U.S. (approximately every two months). We offer hybrid working, the opportunity to work from home up to two days per week dependent on the needs of the business. For this opportunity we will provide a relocation support package (if applicable) to the Isle of Wight, for the successful applicant should this location be of interest. Job Accountabilities - Quality of design deliverables created by the GKN Defence - Systems Engineering team - Qualification arguments and submissions for GKN Defence, avionic, control systems / sub-systems - Maintaining closed loop FRACAS program (Failure Reporting, Analysis, Corrective Action System) - Release of stakeholder and customer technical communications - Technical guidance for program planning objectives - Define best practice guidance for systems engineering excellence - Mentoring, coaching and development training and initiatives for systems engineering team - Technology development submissions to GKN defence systems roadmap and technology incubator What You'll Bring 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: Specific Technical Experience - HNC, degree or equivalent experience in electrical, mechanical, or systems engineering - Demonstrable experience delivering designs for electro-mechanical, sensing OR controller systems within an engineering environment - Experience in a leading / approval role for systems design - 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 2 projects), in compliance planning and governance of verification & validation analysis for product release - Advanced experience of the Systems Development Lifecycle process - Advanced experience of requirement decomposition and tools (e.g. DOORS) - Intermediate experience defining system / modular architecture Essential General Experience: - Technical leadership - Ability to mentor, coach and develop functional & cross functional team members. - Confident presenting technical information to a wider audience including senior stakeholders and external customers - Industry innovator - Set the vision for the next generation of products and working methods. You hunt for exponential improvement - Build 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: - Previously held signatory responsibility (systems design; safety design), within aviation industry - Working experience delivering system designs using MBSE toolbox (e.g. SysML) - Demonstrate commercial awareness; supporting leadership with make/buy decisions and creating technical packages to initiate new supplier bids & contracts - Experience in safety assessment software/toolbox FTA and FMEA (e.g. ANSYS Medini, Isograph) - Proficiency in multi-domain modelling/simulation packages (e.g. MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, Amesim) What We'll Offer - Competitive salary dependent on experience - 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 - Relocation support (if applicable) - Hybrid working - giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working - Income protection - Shopping discounts - Cycle To Work Scheme - Employee Assistance Programme - A collaborative, dynamic working environment Join us and keep the world moving click on the link below to apply LI-HYBRID LI-CH1 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. ? ? LI-HYBRID