Senior Engineer - Analysis

GKN Aerospace; West of England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Industry-leading pension scheme

Life assurance 8x salary

Up to 15% bonus

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Flexible hours (finish Friday noon)

Income protection

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Virtual GP for you and family

Job summary

GKN Aerospace in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Analysis Engineer to independently assess, check, or approve stress analysis of aircraft structures across stages from conceptual design to certification.

You will perform hand calculations, finite element analysis and validation in line with customer, regulatory and airworthiness requirements, with qualification to work on UK Defence projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years of stress experience on composite and metallic structures, preferably aerospace.
• Able to hold check/approval status on projects as required.
• Proficient with Nastran/Patran and Simcenter.
• Eligible to work on UK Defence projects.

Responsibilities

• Perform stress analysis using classical methods for both composite and metallic structures.
• Develop, implement and check technical solutions and compliance documentation for work packages.
• Possess approval stress signatory capability on Filton projects; ideally an approval signatory.
• Process and verify concessions and non-conformances, addressing non-conforming products or designs.
• Identify, analyse and resolve technical problems; apply integrated solutions.
• Develop and verify methods plans and toolsets aligned to design objectives.
• Create and check design definitions including interfaces, materials, tolerances and manufacturing requirements.
• Sign and authorise project work packages as per project procedures.

Skills

Stress analysis

FEM (Nastran/Patran, Simcenter)

Structural verification

UK Defence eligibility

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in engineering

Tools

Nastran/Patran

Simcenter

Job description

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 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

An opportunity is available for a permanent position for a Senior Analysis Engineer to support several exciting projects at our Filton office. We are looking for a capable, dynamic and flexible engineer to be able to independently assess, check, or approve stress analysis of aircraft structures at various stages of the design ranging from conceptual design to certification analysis. You will be required to perform a variety of tasks, including hand calculations, finite element analysis and validation of technical solutions in compliance with applicable customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements. Qualification to work on UK Defence projects is essential.

How You'll Contribute

The Senior Engineer - Analysis will be responsible for the following:

• Perform stress analysis using classical methods for both composite and metallic structures
• Develop, implement, check/approve technical solutions and compliance documentation for workpackges to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements.
• Be capable of holding an approval stress signatory on one or more Filton based projects. Candidate ideally holds an approval signatory.
• Process and verify documentation such as concessions and non-conformances, and provide technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products, designs, and compliance documentation.
• Identify, analyse and resolve technical problems and apply/integrate solutions.
• Develop, execute, and verify methods plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant to achieve the design and programme objectives.
• Identify and assess technical risk and propose relevant mitigations
• Generate and check test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance
• Develop and check/approve designs compliant to cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and design to cost.
• Create and check/approve design definitions of a workpackage, including integration, interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives.
• Generate or review, and sign as appropriate
• according to the project signature authorisations.

What You'll Bring

To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

• Holds relevant technical qualifications (Bachelor, Master or equivalent) or a relevant level of experience to perform the engineering tasks in a workpackage.
• 8+ years (indicative) of relevant stress experience of both composite and metallic structures. Preferably in the Aerospace Industry or Aerostructure Design.
• Able and suitable to hold check and approval status in accordance with the relevant criteria, if so required by the allocation/project.
• Able to perform finite element analysis using a GKN recognised toolset such as Nastran/Patran and Simcenter.
• Able to perform both static and fatigue and damage tolerance analysis using recognised methods.
• Qualify to work on UK Defence projects.

What We'll Offer

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

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• Up to 15% Bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12noon on a Friday
• Income protection
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

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 arethe place where human dreams, plus humanendeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.