Data & Configuration Management Engineer

Job Summary

Based at either our £32m state-of-the-art Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Filton, Bristol or our East Cowes facility on the Isle of Wight reporting into the Functional Centre of Competence Manager - Engineering - Data & Configuration Management, this exciting opportunity will see you responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining Configuration Management (CM) activities for a designated project or projects in accordance with GKN procedures and alignment to customer and regulatory body requirements; ensuring GKN Policies and procedures remain current with industry best practice.

In order to be successful in this role you must demonstrate a Safety First mindset with no allowance for error, so your meticulous attention to detail is therefore vital.

You need to be a self-motivated individual, coupled with being a confident communicator, as this role will see you interacting with a variety of key personnel across the business, delivering technical data to a wide audience.

This role would suit either a recent graduate or someone who has recently completed their HND Engineering Apprenticeship; alternatively someone with a few years' experience within the industry and is looking to take their career to the next level.

Job Responsibilities

This role will see you provide support to both existing and future development programmes along with the Configuration Management (CM) requirements, including but not limited to:

• Identifying technical problems and applying/integrating solutions.
• Identifying improvements and support the creation of work instructions, procedures, technical manuals, and guidelines
• Supporting the creation of technical solutions against customer requirements; input to bids and proposals within assigned programmes/projects.
• Acting as the Configuration Management support to the CM function on nominated programmes.
• Facilitating and maintaining Change Control Boards (CCB’s)
• Processing Engineering Coordination Memo (“ECM’s”)
• Creating and maintaining the CM plan(s) within the assigned programmes
• Management of the product data in the GKN PLM system.
• Supporting or generating test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance (analysis/similarity) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with certification requirements.
• Supporting technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews; the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of product design.
• Supporting the release of engineering design data and customer release data.

What You'll Need

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:

Essential:

• Hold a relevant technical qualification such as Bachelor, Masters or equivalent, or a relevant level of experience to perform the engineering tasks.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Demonstrate a good level of technical problem solving skills
• Demonstrate an understanding and awareness of the importance of safety within the industry.
• Ability to act under own initiative in relation to the assigned tasks within defined functional procedures / governance
• Ability to describe technical information of a technical task to a wide audience within the engineering business
• Ability to hold technical discussions with customers and suppliers as required
• Have a basic knowledge and understanding of the Aerospace industry

Desirable:

• 3+ years of relevant experience gained within an engineering discipline, ideally within an aerospace environment and in multi-disciplinary engineering project teams.
• Knowledge of CM principles
• Experience with a PLM tool (preferably WindchIll)

What We'll Offer:

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working – giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• As a member of the Pension Scheme, Death in Service cover (Life Assurance) of 8x salary
• Group Income Protection (as part of the Pension Scheme)
• Shopping Discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Dedicated Wellbeing Champions, qualified in Mental Health First Aid
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly!

We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities; that’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!