Facilities Engineer

GKN Aerospace •

El Cajon, California, United States

Position Type: Permanent

Job Description:

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 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90 of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

The Facilities Engineer is accountable for ensuring optimal functioning of equipment and infrastructure. This involves planning and providing expert support to finding root causes and implementing corrective actions. Troubleshooting and optimizing asset and process reliability at optimal cost – ensuring assets never impact the schedule.

Job Responsibilities

•   Exemplifying a safety-first mindset and ensuring compliance to the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
•   Analyses equipment and machinery failures and provides effective countermeasures.
•   Collaborates with cross-functional teams to address facility and equipment related issues, implementing plans to return equipment to OEM conditions and improve uptime.
•   Leads machine and equipment refurbishing plans, identifying suppliers, coordinating timelines and submitting CAPEX plans to leadership based on expert analysis.
•   The role may include planning, designing and overseeing the reconfiguration and alteration of equipment and machinery.
•   Manages facility improvement projects, oversee contractors, and maintain accurate documentation of maintenance activities.
•   Prepares bid sheets and, in collaboration with Procurement, contracts for equipment and infrastructure projects.
•   Review and estimate design costs including equipment, installation, labour, materials, preparation, and other related costs.
•   Inspect or direct the inspection of infrastructure installation progress to ensure conformance to established drawings, specification, and schedules.

Job Requirements:
Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

•   Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
•   5+ years of experience in Facility and Maintenance Engineering
•   2+ years of hands-on experience with electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment
•   2+ years of experience planning and estimating equipment refurbish and infrastructure projects
•   Fluent in English language, both written and spoken
•   Must be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card holder)

Preferred Qualifications:

•   Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate up, down, and across the business
•   Strong computer skills, project management, presentations
•   Fluent in equipment and infrastructure standards and able to read schematics and blue prints
•   Proven structured Problem Solving experience
•   Experience working with a Lean Operating Model / Production System
•   Lean or Six Sigma certification by a reputable certifying body or benchmark company
•   Equipment/infrastructure experience in the Aerospace industry
•   A passion for the Aerospace industry

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?

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 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.

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.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.

Job Ident #: 1039237601

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