Principal Engineer - Analysis - Repair Solutions

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 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

The Business Analyst will support the Repair Solutions MRO business unit globally and be a key member in the Digital Transformation team to deliver high impact initiatives and contribute towards the vision of becoming the most advanced MRO business globally. Accountable for supporting projects with data, leading & governing global Business Intelligence for our business unit and delivering reports, analytics and support to improve the business.

Job Responsibilities

•    Support the implementation of Digital Transformation initiatives and solutions, from original concept through to initiative roll out and solution governance by providing data, building automated work flows and performing analytics
•    Provide SAP know-how of system process configuration overall and focused support for Sales and Finance teams
•    Act as the intermediary between the business and global core SAP CoE
•    Support data acquisition and data quality improvement efforts
•    Analyze data, assess performance and continuously support the improvement of overall business processes
•    Deploy automated workflows and reports through available tools in current system landscape 
•    Responsible for data and system support development and data integration into current ERP SAP S4 Hana or any other solutions. Resolve issues pertaining to data quality and build data pipelines to deliver data where it is needed.
•    Provide specialist knowledge to system activities and data availability with the ultimate goal of improving efficiency, streamline processes and enable automation.
•    Global role to support across the team covering our three Repair Solutions sites in El Cajon USA, Johor Malaysia and Trollhättan Sweden.
•    Participate in positive, team relationships with internal co-workers 
•    Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards. 
 

Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant field of study, or in lieu of degree 3 years of engineering work experience within a manufacturing environment.
•    2+ Years of experience in supporting with business analytics and data governance
•    Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder due to program security clearance requirements and/or SSA requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
•    GKN experience
•    Aerospace industry experience
•    Experience with Business Analytics
•    Experience with SAP S4 Hana ERP system
•    Experience with Aerospace MRO business
•    Experience with any business intelligence tools, as well as; Alteryx, Qlik, NodeRed, PowerBI, Mendix
•    Programming experience in developing or interfacing software applications
•    Acceptable to depend on others for instruction, guidance and direction. 
•    Good communication skills and understanding of why they are important 
•    Ability to apply basic knowledge and skills to own work o Identifies opportunities to improve performance
•    Understands situations by analyzing them logically 
•    Able to apply basic knowledge and skills to own work and only limited by experience
•    Develops knowledge in basic theories, practices and procedures in one area of expertise through formal training 
•    Understands basic organizational structure and objectives 

•    Recognizes own job role and their contribution to the work of the organization

Compensation Range

The Compensation range for this position is between $99,716 - 124,645. 
 

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?

 

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