Aerospace Manufacturing NPI Design & Planning Engineer

Dowty, a GE Aerospace company; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Non-contributory Pension

Life Assurance

Group income protection

Private medical cover

Holiday 26 days

Job summary

Dowty, a GE Aviation company, is seeking a manufacturing design and planning engineer to join our onsite team in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. You will translate requirements into clear production plans and support the development of propeller manufacturing systems from our state-of-the-art Gloucestershire facility.

You will work with the NPI team to ensure manufacturability, define manufacturing processes, and adopt new tech and automation to improve repeatability and readiness while

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing engineering, process planning, industrialisation, design coordination, or facility/production planning.
• Ability to translate evolving requirements into clear outputs and documents.
• Experience coordinating across multiple stakeholders in a complex project environment.
• Understanding of how process and manufacturing needs drive facility, equipment, and infrastructure requirements.
• Experience preparing scopes of work, layouts, or planning documentation.
• Strong organisational, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate stakeholder needs into structured plans, layouts, specifications, and requirement packages.
• Collaborate with process engineering to convert information into practical project deliverables.
• Develop scopes of work, requirement packs, and planning information for internal teams, suppliers, and integrators.
• Coordinate layout, facility, equipment, and utility requirements for planning and design development.
• Maintain documentation, interfaces, and revisions for traceability and control.
• Track dependencies, risks, and changes with updates on delivery impacts.
• Support cross-functional alignment across engineering, facilities, quality, HSE, IT/OT, sourcing, and partners.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Process planning

Industrialisation

Design coordination

Facility planning

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Job description

Dowty, a GE Aviation company, is seeking a manufacturing design and planning engineer to join our onsite team in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. You will translate requirements into clear production plans and support the development of propeller manufacturing systems from our state-of-the-art Gloucestershire facility.

You will work with the NPI team to ensure manufacturability, define manufacturing processes, and adopt new tech and automation to improve repeatability and readiness while