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Job Summary
Making a Difference
It’s great to know you’re making a difference to the future of aviation! Whatever part you play you’ll be helping us deliver operational excellence to our customers.
At our GKN 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 Research Engineer – Electrical Power Engineer – to join our growing Electrical Power Network 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 Electrical Network Technical Authority, you will support the Electrical Power Network team in delivering an Electrical Power network to enable the development of sustainable aerospace power and propulsion systems.
The electrical power network includes the power conditioning from the fuel cells and power conditioning from the electrical energy storage system to support the delivery of the right power quality. The electrical power network also includes the electrical protection and re-configuration features to manage failure cases which the role will be expected to support on.
This role will be based at our Bristol GTC, however travel will be expected including occasional international.
How You'll Contribute
The role will be responsible for designing the electrical power network distribution assemblies to support demonstration of the fuel cells, power conditioning and electrical propulsion for a flying demonstrator.
The Senior Research Engineer will be responsible for the following:-
1. Lead the electrical design and sizing of the Electrical Busbar
2. Delivery of design of Electrical Network Distribution Assemblies
3. Prepare technical documentation, including electrical schematics and design reports
4. Deliver electrical switchboard design (including busbar, fault protection, ground, sensors etc.)
5. Setting separation and segregation limits within PDC
6. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure design requirements are met
7. Support of electrical power network technology roadmaps
8. Support of future power and propulsion system studies
9. Work collaboratively with GKN Fokker-Elmo in the Netherlands
10. Validate the Power Distribution Centres at a test site in the UK
11. Internal & external technical relationships with Customers and suppliers
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:
Essential
12. Minimum B.Eng degree qualified with ≥ 3 years relevant experience
13. Experience in designing electrical distribution assembly equipment
14. Experience in designing and modelling dc electrical power systems
15. Background of developing electrical distribution equipment design solutions
16. Experience in installation of electrical switching/ fault protection/ fault limiting devices
17. Good understanding of electrical distribution equipment manufacturing methods
18. Good understanding of impacts of higher voltage solutions in aerospace
19. Good understanding of electrical distribution equipment manufacturing methods.
Desirable
20. Aerospace Industry experience else experience in a safety based industry
21. Experience in creating/ overseeing electrical diagrams and technical specifications
22. Experience in electrical switchboard design
23. High Power, High Voltage design experience
24. Experience of performing FMEAs
25. Experience in Ground Protection
26. Wider experience of control of electric Power Systems, preferably hybrid energy source systems
27. Must be capable of working with and specifying work for academic and industrial partners to obtain hardware delivery.
Personal Attributes
28. Strong Communication Skills
29. Excellent Team Player
30. Passion & Energy
31. Execution
32. Problem Solving
33. (Self) discipline
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 you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:
34. Competitive salary dependent on experience
35. Company bonus based on company and personal performance
36. Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions on a 1 : 1.5 basis. Company contributing up to 12%
37. Life Assurance 8 x salary
38. 25 days holiday + bank holidays
39. Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12noon on a Friday
40. Income protection
41. Shopping discounts
42. Cycle To Work Scheme
43. Employee Assistance Programme
44. Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
45. 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!
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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.
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