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Amazing opportunities.\nGKN 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.\nJob Summary\nAn opportunity is available for a permanent position for a Senior Analysis Engineer to support several exciting projects at our Filton office. We are looking for a capable, dynamic and flexible engineer to be able to independently assess, check, or approve stress analysis of aircraft structures at various stages of the design ranging from conceptual design to certification analysis. You will be required to perform a variety of tasks, including hand calculations, finite element analysis and validation of technical solutions in compliance with applicable customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements. Qualification to work on UK Defence projects is essential.\nHow You'll Contribute\nThe Senior Engineer - Analysis will be responsible for the following:\nPerform stress analysis using classical methods for both composite and metallic structures\nDevelop, implement, check/approve technical solutions and compliance documentation for workpackges to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements.\nBe capable of holding an approval stress signatory on one or more Filton based projects. Candidate ideally holds an approval signatory.\nProcess and verify documentation such as concessions and non-conformances, and provide technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products, designs, and compliance documentation.\nIdentify, analyse and resolve technical problems and apply/integrate solutions.\nDevelop, execute, and verify methods plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant to achieve the design and programme objectives.\nIdentify and assess technical risk and propose relevant mitigations \nGenerate and check test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance \nDevelop and check/approve designs compliant to cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and design to cost.\nCreate and check/approve design definitions of a workpackage, including integration, interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives.\nGenerate or review, and sign as appropriate \naccording to the project signature authorisations.\nWhat You'll Bring\nTo 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:\nHolds relevant technical qualifications (Bachelor, Master or equivalent) or a relevant level of experience to perform the engineering tasks in a workpackage.\n8+ years (indicative) of relevant stress experience of both composite and metallic structures. Preferably in the Aerospace Industry or Aerostructure Design.\nAble and suitable to hold check and approval status in accordance with the relevant criteria, if so required by the allocation/project.\nAble to perform finite element analysis using a GKN recognised toolset such as Nastran/Patran and Simcenter.\nAble to perform both static and fatigue and damage tolerance analysis using recognised methods.\nQualify to work on UK Defence projects.\nWhat We'll Offer\nOnce you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:\nCompetitive salary dependent on experience\nIndustry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis\nLife Assurance 8 x salary\nUp to 15% Bonus\n25 days holiday + bank holidays\nFlexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12noon on a Friday\nIncome protection\nShopping discounts\nCycle To Work Scheme\nEmployee Assistance Programme\nVirtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family\nA collaborative, dynamic working environment \nWe’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?\nA Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working\nEveryone 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.\nWe’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.\nWe are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5672,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Aerospace Manufacturing","Aircraft Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T09:24:10Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker, Graduate Trainee)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-14T06:20:30+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":72,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.805,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:28","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T16:36:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":37973,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1833182},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1833182"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-senior-engineer-analysis"}]}