About the role
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 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
Based at GKN's Global Technology Centre the role of an Electrical System Engineer is to support the Electrical Network team in developing and delivering electrical systems within GKN Aerospace Hydrogen Systems. This work will directly contribute to the advancement of sustainable aerospace power and propulsion systems, integrating electrical technologies through the design and development of innovative components, assemblies, and system architectures.
The Electrical Systems Engineer will be responsible for supporting the development, management and verification of system-level electrical requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
Working within a multidisciplinary engineering environment, the engineer ensures that electrical systems are specified, analysed, modelled, tested, and verified to achieve performance, safety, reliability and certification objectives.
How You'll Contribute
The Research Engineer will be responsible for the following:
Requirements Management
Capture, analyse, and manage stakeholder, customer, regulatory, and certification requirements
Decompose high-level requirements into subsystem and component-level requirements
System Architecture Development
Support the development and maintain electrical system architectures and interface definitions
Modelling & Simulation
Support the Development of system models to evaluate electrical system behaviour and performance
Conduct simulations to assess functionality, efficiency, control stra…
