Senior Manufacturing Engineer/Ingénieur industrialisation senior H/F

Senior Manufacturing Engineer - EWIS

Company: GKN Aerospace Careers

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! 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.To complement our Manufacturing Engineering team in Papendrecht, we are looking for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer. You will be working in an international team with Senior Manufacturing Engineers, Principal Manufacturing Engineers, Configuration Managers and Quality Engineers.
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you provide technical expertise at a local project level for operational and development Programs to enable and deliver zero defect projects utilizing engineering and problem solving skills. You are accountable for delivering robust, capable manufacturing process technology as it applies to materials, tooling, part fabrication and assembly.

Exemplify a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.

• Provide technical expertise at a local project level in governance and deployment of manufacturing development and integration for production within GKN Aerospace.
• Provide technical expertise to rapidly solve issues pertaining to vendor schedule and/or quality.
• Break down technical problems, risk, opportunities, in the correct order to create products and add value to GKN Aerospace through creating Zero Defects
• Lead positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as co-workers
• Continuously improve production processes by implementing Lean initiatives.
• Provide local project technical oversight for the development of manufacturing process solutions to complex problems.
• Local project technical lead for the implementation of production planning, from original concept through to production. Design these processes to a high level of process capability through utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite.
• Implement the global process for product development, first article development, configuration changes, build process definition and implementation.

Bachelor’s Degree in the direction of engineering (Aerospace, Electrical, Mechatronics, Industrial or Mechanical).

• Approximately 5-7 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering.
• Experience of managing New Product / Process introduction (industrialization) & existing production process improvements.
• Knowledge of quality system models such as ISO9000, AS9100, or D1-9000.
• Project / Program Management experience.
• Fluent in English language, both written and spoken.
• Experience with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• We want to offer you a career that can go to many directions thanks to our breadth of international opportunities. By being part of GKN Aerospace that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry, you will know that you will be working towards being the most trusted partner in the aerospace industry. We will support and promote your professional and personal development.

8% holiday allowance,

• 40 paid holidays for full-time employment in line with the Collective Labor Agreement Metalektro (27 holidays and 13 ADV days),
• An excellent pension scheme (PME) and travel allowance,
• A pleasant and informal working environment, in which we work together to achieve the best result for our customers.

We will support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities.

Fokker ELMO, part of GKN Aerospace, is a leading player in the design, manufacturing and support for the Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS) for Aerospace and Defense programs To make the wiring harnesses, we have everything in-house from start to finish. From complete engineering to our final product, the ready-to-use wiring harnesses, we do this for well-known aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Collins Aerospace and Lockheed-Martin. We produce these wiring harnesses worldwide at several sites. This is what Fokker ELMO is all about: quality and therefore airworthiness.

Please apply online by sending us your CV and motivation letter. Due to data privacy reasons we do not handle any applications sent by email. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

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. 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.​