Technical Authority - Fuel Cell & Thermal Systems
GKN Aerospace
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop fuel cell systems and thermal management systems with a focus on the development of hydrogen power and propulsion
- Ensure that system requirements are captured, managed and developed into design solutions and validated products
- Define Fuel Cell Stack Module requirements from the perspective of fuel cell system level with internal and external suppliers
- Develop the standards for fuel cell and thermal systems development and verification used within the CTO Office whilst ensuring that they are embodied in an appropriate manner within the programs
- Manage the fuel cell and thermal systems teams working with in close cooperation with other disciplines, including systems engineering
- Responsible for the recruitment, specification of roles and the development of members of the team
- Manage external project organisations; consisting of programme partners, Suppliers and University Partners as appropriate
- Manage and maintain fuel cell and thermal system work package budgets, reporting and schedule, including forecasting resources required
- Ensure requirements for the design and development of rig test for the ground demonstrator platforms- including test planning and execution
- Ensure development and insertion of Technology Development Plans (TDP), cost models and Technology Business Cases (TBC) for system technologies
- Work alongside legal and procurement organization to oversee related subcontracts to ensure on time, on cost and on quality delivery to the project
- Ensure that verification planning and test requirements capture system requirements and are adequately validated
- Develop and maintain requirements and specifications both internally and as part of appropriate international standard working groups
- Provide technical support to regulatory discussions (CAA/FAA/EASA)
- Support to customer and supplier engagements including responding to RFIs
- Engineering Degree
- Experience as a lead fuel cell and/or thermal systems engineer
- Experience the intergration o fuel cell /or thermal systems
- Approval Authority for the design and development of systems or thermal systems
- Experience in the design, development and integration of heat exchangers
- Experience in IP protection
- Experience in CFD and/or multi-physics FEM
- Experience in requirements based engineering (e.g. CodeBeamer, DOORs Next).
- Experience in safety assessment, including FHA, FTA, FMEA/FMECA etc. (e.g. Isograph, Bowtie, Medini Analyze)
- Experience in Functional systems development (e.g. SPARX EA, Ansys SCADE Architect/Suite and or Rhapsody)
- An active membership in one or more international standardization committees for aerospace in field, e.g. EUROCAE
- Excellent understanding of aircraft thermal systems architectural development and vice versa
- Experience in the design, development and integration of heat exchangers
- Experience in multi-domain physical modelling (e.g. MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape and/or Twin Builder etc.)
- Competitive salary dependant on experience
- £5,500 car allowance per annum
- Opportunity to earn up to 22.5% bonus
- 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
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