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GKN Aerospace

Survivability Analysis Engineer

Date: Dec 5, 2025

Location: Hoogeveen, NL

Company: GKN Aerospace Careers

Job Summary

For the Defense Engineering & Technology organization in The Netherlands, we are looking for a Survivability Analysis Engineer. The Survivability Analysis Engineer plays a pivotal role in the Development, Engineering and Testing of structural, ballistic protection solutions for several platforms. You will be part of a dedicated, multidisciplinary project team within Fokker.

We are looking for a capable and flexible Survivability Analysis Engineer for the Product Engineering Department to help develop lightweight composite structures with integrated, structural ballistic protection and inherent engineering simulations tools to support the Development and Engineering of the ballistic protection solutions. Knowledge of fiber reinforced composite materials is a prerequisite. Knowledge of armor solutions and (e.g. small caliber) threats is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and check technical solutions and compliance documentation to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints.
• Identify technical problems and apply/integrate solutions.
• Execute and implement methods plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant to achieve the design and program objectives.
• Support the creation of technical solutions against customer requirements as input to bids and proposals within assigned programs/projects.
• Identify and assess technical risk for own work and propose mitigations within assigned programs/projects.
• Develop simulation tools for the Development and Engineering of ballistic protection solutions
• Support or generate test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance (analysis/similarity) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with certification requirements.
• Develop designs compliant to cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and design to cost.
• Generate assigned project deliverables, documents, and reports according to the project signature authorizations.
• Support technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews, including the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of product design.

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• Process documentation such as concessions and non-conformances, and provide technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products, designs, and compliance documentation.
• Perform all activities at a level of minimal supervision and support other engineers with peer-to-peer reviews.
• Identify improvements and support the creation of work instructions, procedures, technical manuals, and guidelines.
• Support operations and support manufacturing engineering team in translation of the product design and manufacturing requirements of a product in a manufacturing design of a product during prototype build and serial manufacturing, where applicable.
• Understand the qualification process of products, and prepare compliance documentation to internal, customer, and regulatory requirements, where applicable.

For this role you need

You are pro-active, self-starting, relevant experience in Analysis Engineering in preferably Aerospace and have a good level of technical problem solving and you are a team player. You have worked before in a multidisciplinary environment and are familiar with Technology Development. You are willing to learn and are able to arrange things. You will bring your passion and expertise/ talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

• Relevant technical qualifications (Bachelor, Master or equivalent) or a relevant level of experience to perform the engineering tasks
• Able to work towards holding a check / approval status.
• Able to act under own initiative in relation to the assigned tasks within defined functional procedures / governance.
• Ability to describe technical information of a technical task to a wide audience within the engineering business.
• The ability to have technical discussions with customers and suppliers as required.
• Able to analyze and interpret customer requirements.

We are seeking a Survivability Analysis Engineer who excels in bringing new Technologies to the market and be able to engineer solutions for several platforms.