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Join us on an internship at GKN and help shape the future of flight.
Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 15,000 employees across 38 manufacturing sites in 12 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £2.8bn.
Together as “one GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. We’re putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050!
Our Global Technology Centre
Our new Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Filton, Bristol is a £32m state of the art technology research and development facility. It acts as a hub for world-class innovative technology for the next generation of fuel-efficient aircraft. It offers a collaborative space for research and development with universities, the UK’s CATAPULT network and GKN Aerospace’s UK supply chain, to help strengthen aerospace technology and support the UK’s Industrial strategy.
Job Summary
For the third and consecutive year we have a number of exciting internship opportunities based at our Global Technology Centre. Fuel your passion in making things fly by joining us at the cutting edge of the aviation industry and discover the future possibilities that await you.
placement is available within the Automated Assembly, Inspection and Metrology team. The successful candidate will be based at our world leading, state-of-the-art technology research and development facility in Bristol - the Global Technology Centre (GTC). On site we conduct research on manufacturing process development and carry out high rate representative manufacture to develop sustainable aerospace technology of the future. We are an ecosystem of Universities, Research and Technology Organisations, Catapults, Government Organisations and Industrial Partners.
During the assembly of aero structures, components with complex, irregular geometry must be integrated into assemblies to a high degree of precision. Historically this has been done with precise and highly expensive tooling. Even with specialist tooling, the quality control process of aero structures is highly skilled, time consuming and costly.
Job Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be working with the AAIM (automation, assembly, inspection & metrology) team to deploy state of the art machine vision technologies to automate the assembly and inspection process. The fundamental activities in this role could include:
- Understanding the key assembly requirements for complex civil airframe components
- Working closely with suppliers to spec, procure and test metrology systems
- Integrate the selected metrology systems into the existing production line
- Automate the processing of metrology data and implement statistical process control (SPC)
During this placement you can expect the support of a team of research engineers with a wealth and breadth of experience. We are seeking a self-disciplined and self-motivated individual who is excited by the challenges and opportunities of this project, enjoys autonomy but is also proactive in seeking the advice, support and experience of colleagues and industry experts.
Qualifications:
Degree studies in engineering; ideally Physics or Mathematics based courses but open to other engineering types.
What Well Offer
Once you’re on board you'll get the following perks and benefits:
- Annual salary of £18,600
- Hybrid working – giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working
- Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
- Life Assurance 8 x salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Income protection
- Shopping discounts
- Cycle To Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A collaborative, dynamic working environment
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. 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’ last year. 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.
