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Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Product & Planning - Repair Solutions

GKN Aerospace
El Cajon, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/6/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025

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

The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer - NPI will provide technical expertise at a local project level for operational and development Programs to enable and deliver zero defect projects utilizing engineering and problem solving skills. Accountable for delivering robust, capable manufacturing process technology as it applies to materials, tooling, part fabrication and assembly.

Job Responsibilities

  • Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
  • Technical expertise at a local project level in governance and deployment of manufacturing development and integration for production within GKN Aerospace.
  • Provides technical expertise to rapidly solve issues pertaining to vendor schedule and / or quality.
  • Breaks down technical problems, risk, opportunities, in the correct order to create products and add value to GKN Aerospace through creating Zero Defects
  • Leads positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as co-workers
  • Continuously improve production processes by implementing Lean initiatives.
  • Provide local project technical oversight for the development of manufacturing process solutions to complex problems through :
  • Local project technical lead for the implementation of production planning, from original concept through to production. Design these processes to a high level of process capability through utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite.
  • Implement the global process for product development, first article development, configuration changes, build process definition and implementation.

Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or in lieu of degree 7 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering.
  • 5 Years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering in a manufacturing environment.
  • Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder due to program security clearance requirements and / or SSA requirements.
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • GKN experience
  • NPI experience is strongly preferred
  • Aerospace industry experience
  • MRO experience
  • Leadership and mentor mentality
  • Welding, thermal spray, shot peening, CNC machining experience preferred
  • Working knowledge of quality system models such as ISO9000, AS9100, or D1-9000
  • Increasingly able to provide Technical input at all levels of work
  • Identifies and anticipates technical problems and offers solutions
  • Drives to complete the job on time and continually searches for better ways of doing things
  • Understands situations by analysing them logically and uses information in a systematic way identifying appropriate course of action for resolution.
  • Ability to apply complex and non-routine analysis
  • Competent member of the technical community with a good understanding of other disciplines
  • Acts without supervision in own area whilst able to supervise others.
  • Applies knowledge and skills to a range of activities
  • Understands the formal and informal structure of the business
  • Provides support to the technical community and show commercial awareness at local level
  • Compensation Range

    The compensation range for the position is between $99,716 - $124,645.

    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.

    Salary : $99,716 - $124,645

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