Senior Engineer - Systems Engineering

GKN Aerospace; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company bonus

Industry Leading Pension Scheme

Life Assurance 8 x salary

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Income protection

Cycle To Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Virtual GP Clinic

Job summary

GKN Aerospace Bristol is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to shape the future of flight. You’ll apply systems engineering across software, controls, structures, prototyping, and electrical & cryogenic systems, reporting to the Principal Research Engineer.

Key responsibilities include developing a Systems Engineering Framework, enabling MBSE across disciplines, and integrating Codebeamer for requirements management and governance while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Experience with MBSE using SysML and SE lifecycle (ISO/IEC 15288).
• Hands-on experience with Codebeamer for requirements management and reporting.
• Ability to elicit requirements and manage interfaces across disciplines.
• Strong communication with cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• System Engineering Support: apply SE methods across the portfolio.
• System Engineering Framework Development & Deployment: create and maintain framework aligned to aerospace tech.
• Codebeamer Integration & Governance: champion usage for requirements capture and dashboards.
• Mentor and Develop Junior Engineers: build team capability.

Skills

MBSE (SysML)

Codebeamer usage

Requirements management

Cross-functional communication

Digital-thread integration

Tool integration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Codebeamer

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 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.

Job Summary

Based at our Global Technology Centre Bristol we are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with a strong background in Systems Engineering to help shape the future of flight. Our aim is to deploy a modern systems engineering ethos across the broad domains within the portfolio (Software, Controls, Structures, Protoyping, Electrical & Cryogenic systems). Working in advancing technologies developing the key underpinning physics but also the methods, capabilities and evidence to support our prototypes. Reporting to the Principal Research Engineer we want a dynamic and experienced individual to help us:

• Provide technical support across the full technology engineering lifecycle through using Systems Engineering methods appropriate to our needs.
• Evolve and grow our capability embedding this into each discipline within the portfolio & beyond to stakeholders and customers
• Ensure that systems engineering principles are applied consistently across the portfolio of programmes
• Champion the use of Model Based Enterprise toolsets to better manage technical projects, knowledge and progress.

How You’ll Contribute

The Senior Systems Engineer Will Contribute To The Following

System Engineering Support

– Developing a systems thinking across the whole portfolio to enable systems capability across the projects team.

System Engineering Framework Development & Deployment

– Define and maintain a Systems Engineering Framework that aligns to technology development in aerospace and tailored for the organisation’s portfolio.

Codebeamer Integration & Governance

– Champion the use of Codebeamer as the tool for requirements capture and decomposition. Dashboard Compliance reporting for safety, quality, and regulatory requirements, Wiki knowledge management.

Mentor and Develop Junior Engineers

– Coach, support and develop the Junior Engineers to improve team capability.

What You’ll Bring

Essential Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s Degree in relevant engineering discipline
• Experience in systems engineering lifecycle (ISO/IEC 15288, INCOSE) with experience in MBSE (e.g. SysML)
• Hands‑on experience using Codebeamer (or similar tools) for requirements management, traceability, and reporting.
• Knowledge of requirements elicitation, decomposition, interface management, V&V planning, especially in a technical development environment..
• Ability to integrate tools (e.g., Codebeamer, modelling environments) into a coherent digital‑thread approach.
• Capable of communication with cross functional engineering teams
• Has good interpersonal and communication skills and can translate to a variety of audiences. Is confident and able to represent their project(s)/Function/Discipline in internal/external environment.

Desirable

• Framework & Process Development - Proven track record in defining and deploying SE frameworks across programmes, including championing change and mind‑set development across teams and disciplines.

What We’ll Offer

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• Company bonus based on company and personal performance
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions on a 1 : 1.5 basis. Company contributing up 12%
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12noon on a Friday
• Income protection
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
• 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!

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 are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.