Onsite Principal Design Engineer

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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

Job title

Principal Design Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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