Senior Engineer - Systems Engineering

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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.

It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers.

At our Bristol Global Technology Centre, we specialise in the research and development of the future of powered flight.

We have a new exciting and career defining opportunity for a Senior Engineer – Systems Engineering – to join our growing Aircraft Systems Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the green revolution in aviation, a project that aligns with our company mission, “To be the most Trusted and Sustainable Partner in the Sky”.

Reporting to the Principal Research Engineer for Systems Engineering, you will be responsible for Systems Engineering from requirements elucidation, development, specification and test definition, including integration.

This role will be based at our Bristol GTC, however travel will be expected including occasional international.

The Engineer shall draw on their engineering background and product lifecycle awareness to progress a variety of research activities in the TRL1-6 range. They must have sound experience in technical working and risk management. They shall be committed to development of their own skills and professional network. Their good communication skills shall enable them to confidently engage with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

• Responsible to define and develop requirements, and turn them into a feasible solution
• Responsible to develop functions, systems, items and components
• Use and develop model based systems engineering (MBSE) techniques for requirements and architecture creation.
• Define approaches to system verification & communicate these to specialist domain teams
• Work with the systems architects, mechanical systems engineers and system simulation engineers to ensure that the system requirements are achieved.
• Shall anticipate and manage transversal technical and business issues
• Generate technical reports and present findings
• Develop specification documents and procedures for new products before launched into manufacturing
• Shall ensure configuration management is in place for the systems and all of its components from requirement through to operation
• Provide general technical feedback on the design and development of mechanical and electrical sub-systems

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in relevant engineering discipline
• Experienced in requirements engineering and management of requirements across all project lifecycle stages
• Experience in systems engineering applied to concept and /or product development, ideally in aerospace
• Experienced working in a safety critical system development
• Experience in MBSE (e.g. SysML), functional decomposition and performing architectural system level studies, e.g. ANSYS SCADE
• Experience in functional and physical system development
• Experience in Safety Assessment and Compliance Planning, including FTA and FMEA, e.g. ANSYS Medini
• Experienced in developing verification cases for (sub) system and development
• Experience in applying systems engineering techniques within an R&T project
• Experience in associated international standards, design practices, certification requirements (and means of compliance) as well as in service issues

• Proficiency in Requirements Management tools e.g. DOORS, Codebeamer
• Detail‑oriented with experience in data management.
• Practi…