The Sr. Manufacturing Engineer will 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. Accountable for delivering robust, capable manufacturing process technology as it applies to materials, tooling, part fabrication and assembly.

* Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
* Technical expertise at a local project level in governance and deployment of manufacturing development and integration for production within GKN Aerospace.
* Provides technical expertise to rapidly solve issues pertaining to vendor schedule and/or quality.
* Breaks down technical problems, risk, opportunities, in the correct order to create products and add value to GKN Aerospace through creating Zero Defects
* Leads 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 through:
* 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.

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or in lieu of degree 7 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering.
* 5 Years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering
* Must be a US Citizen due to program requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

* GKN experience
* NPI experience is strongly preferred
* Aeropspace industry experience
* Welding, thermal spray, shot peening, CNC machining experience preferred
* Working knowledge of quality system models such as ISO9000, AS9100, or D1-9000
* Increasingly able to provide Technical input at all levels of work
* Identifies and anticipates technical problems and offers solutions
* Drives to complete the job on time and continually searches for better ways of doing things
* Understands situations by analysing them logically and uses information in a systematic way identifying appropriate course of action for resolution.
* Ability to apply complex and non-routine analysis
* Competent member of the technical community with a good understanding of other disciplines
* Acts without supervision in own area whilst able to supervise others.
* Applies knowledge and skills to a range of activities
* Understands the formal and informal structure of the business
* Provides support to the technical community and show commercial awareness at local level