JR Quality Engineer

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 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

The Quality Engineer is accountable for developing, improving and maintaining the strategic quality tools and deployment materials including Quality training and competence, the Quality Excellence Framework, the Aerospace Policy Management System and leading other key global strategic Quality initiatives to make an impact on GKN Aerospace performance.

Job Responsibilities

• Landscaping best in class organisations to enhance GKN Aerospace approach to Quality, developing and deploying strategies to improve GKN Aerospace based on the landscaping
• Develop and deploy One GKNA Quality Culture throughout the organization including the development of materials and tools to support maturation of desired culture
• Project manage deployment of key Quality strategic projects.
• Develop knowledge mgmt. and best practice sharing strategy, tools and deployment approach
• Develop, maintain and improve key Quality tools to help assess and improve the Quality function
• Leadership for the deployment, maintenance and improvement of APMS
• Experience of leading organization wide strategic projects
• Ability to articulate and communicate vision in an engaging way at multiple levels of the organization
• Strong influencing skills to engage with people throughout the GKN Aerospace organization to gain alignment and support for strategic initiatives
• Experience of landscaping and benchmarking internally and externally to identify best practices and stay up to date on advances in the field
• Experience of developing Quality tools and training materials
• Ability to assimilate information from multiple sources and concisely communicate recommendations
• Experience of working across cultures effectively
• Effective at working in a matrix organization

Job Qualifications

• Fluent in english
• Academic Background Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, or related field).
• Previous experience in quality engineering within aerospace or manufacturing environments.
• Experience with quality systems, audits, and regulatory compliance.

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.