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Senior Systems Engineer

GKN AerospaceBristol, South West England🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 14 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Senior Systems Engineer role at GKN Aerospace offers a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of sustainable aviation, developing cutting-edge technologies within a reputable company. You'll thrive here if you're passionate about innovation, possess strong engineering and risk management skills, and enjoy collaborating with diverse stakeholders in a hybrid work environment. This is your chance to significantly advance your career in a field with immense growth potential.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Summary

At our Bristol Global Technology Centre, we specialise in the research and development of the future of powered flight.

We have a new exciting and career defining opportunity for a Senior Engineer Systems Engineering to join our growing Aircraft Systems Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the green revolution in aviation, a project that aligns with our company mission, To be the most Trusted and Sustainable Partner in the Sky.

Reporting to the Principal Research Engineer for Systems Engineering, you will be responsible for Systems Engineering from requirements elucidation, development, specification and test definition, including integration.

This is a hybrid role based at our Bristol GTC, however travel will be expected including occasional international.

How You'll Contribute

The Engineer shall draw on their engineering background and product lifecycle awareness to progress a variety of research activities in the TRL1-6 range. They must have sound experience in technical working and risk management. They shall be committed to development of their own skills and professional network. Their good communication skills shall enable them to confidently engage with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

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

  • Responsible to define and develop requirements, and turn them into a feasible solution
  • Responsible to develop functions, systems, items and components
  • Use and develop model based systems engineering (MBSE) techniques for requirements and architecture creation.
  • Define approaches to system verification & communicate these to specialist domain teams
  • Work with the systems architects, mechanical systems engineers and system simulation engineers to ensure that the system requirements are achieved.
  • Shall anticipate and manage transversal technical and business issues
  • Generate technical reports and present findings
  • Develop specification documents and procedures for new products before launched into manufacturing
  • Shall ensure configuration management is in place for the systems and all of its components from requirement through to operation
  • Provide general technical feedback on the design and development of mechanical and electrical sub-systems.
What You'll Bring

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

Essential

  • Bachelors or Masters Degree in relevant engineering discipline
  • Experienced in requirements engineering and management of requirements across all project lifecycle stages
  • Experience in systems engineering applied to concept and /or product development, ideally in aerospace
  • Experienced working in a safety critical system development
  • Experience in MBSE (e.g. SysML), functional decomposition and performing architectural system level studies, e.g. ANSYS SCADE
  • Experience in functional and physical system development
  • Experience in Safety Assessment and Compliance Planning, including FTA and FMEA, e.g. ANSYS Medini
  • Experienced in developing verification cases for (sub)system and development
  • Experience in applying systems engineering techniques within an R&T project
  • Experience in associated international standards, design practices, certification requirements (and means of compliance) as well as in service issues.


We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. You will have the ability to work autonomously and also part of a wider team.

What We'll Offer

Once youre on board youll get the following perks and benefits:

  • Competitive salary dependent on experience
  • Company bonus based on company and personal performance
  • Industry Leading Pension Scheme = well 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.

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