CADCAMCAE Application Specialist

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 were inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. Were proud to play a part in protecting the worlds democracies. And were committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the worlds aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of 3.35 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a CAD/CAM/CAE Application Specialist to join our global team.

As a Centre of Excellence CADCAMCAE Specialist you will act as a skilled and knowledgeable team member whose role is to provide the business global Engineering Application support and deliver best practices around the development and configuration of CADCAMCAE applications and solutions.

The Engineering IT team forms part of the wider IT applications team an integral part of the global IT organisation.

This role is to be based in the UK on a remote first basis.

You will have an expectation for travel to our UK sites every couple of months which may require an overnight stay depending on your location. This will tie in with team travel across Europe which will likely be twice a year.

What Youll Be Doing

Work collaboratively professionally and openely in a Center of Excellence team with both local and Global responsibility.

• Provide 3rd line technical application support in disciplines such as;
  Enterprise Deployment.
• License Hosting & monitoring.
• Application Environment Management.
• Change Control Version upgrading and sunsetting.
• Cross domain toolbox consolidation & sharing.
• Work within both our ITSM Incident and Request management framework to ensure engineering business continuity is maintained.
• Collaborate with our global project management demand stream to deliver local and global improvement projects.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to resolve engineering and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Support of functional acceptance testing for new application rollouts.
• Remote and physical support of users located at various sites across Europe US and Asia.
• Coordinate the resolution of toolset issues with software vendors.

What Youll Bring

Essential:

• A relevant engineering/IT qualification or relevant level of experience.
• A strong focus on continuous learning amd improvement.
• Open sharing of information with team members.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Understanding and experience working with Change management and project management frameworks and tools.
• Ability to create technical documents / presentations.
• A genuine interest in Engineering and IT.

Desired:

• Previous experience providing support with CADCAMCAE applications (or Engineering/Manufacturing).
• Application Packaging for Microsoft SCCM deployment.

Job Qualifications

Once youre on board youll get the following perks and benefits:
Competitive salary dependent on experience.
Annual bonus of up to 15%
Industry Leading Pension Scheme well pay 1.5x your contribution (max 12%)
Life Assurance 8 x salary.
25 days holiday bank holidays.
Flexible working hours.
Income protection.
Shopping discounts.
Cycle To Work Scheme.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family.
A collaborative dynamic working environment.

As well as a competitive package well offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! Well support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. Thats the beauty of being part of a global business once youre on board you never know where you career journey may take you!

Well 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 weve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. Its 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.

Were 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 arethe place where human dreams plus humanendeavour shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1