As a Tooling Manufacturing Engineer, you will be based at our Luton site supporting our Defence and Civil business lines whilst reporting to the Head of ME, the incumbent will need to be flexible to travel nationally to suppliers on an annual basis and there is flexibility to work from home for up to 1 day per week dependent on the needs of the business. The Tooling Manufacturing Engineer will support operational and development programmes to enable and deliver zero defect enabling tooling solutions whilst assuming accountability for delivering robust and capable manufacturing processes through the design, development and introduction of tooling solutions for part fabrication and assembly.
Established in 1993, GKN Aerospace in Luton is a world leader in commercial and military ice protection systems and transparencies. Offering a full range of capabilities; design, analysis, testing, certification and manufacture of electro-thermal ice protection, military fast jet canopies and flight deck windows to over 20 programmes including: Boeing 787, Dreamliner, Airbus A320, AgustaWestland, AW101, Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed, Martin F-22 Raptor. Our customers include Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopters, Textron, BAE Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Leonardo. Our Luton site is home to 400+ employees and onsite facilities including onsite parking, canteen, vending machines and showers.