Maintenance Technician
Date: Mar 2, 2026
Location: Sumner, WA, US
Company: GKN Aerospace Careers
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 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
Support Operational and development Programs to enable and deliver zero defect projects utilizing engineering and problem solving skills. Contribute to delivering robust, capable manufacturing process technology as it applies to materials, tooling, part fabrication and assembly.
Job Responsibilities
- Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
- Support the development of technical solutions to problems within GKN Aerospace
- Provide technical input of manufacturing process development and integration for production.
- Support root cause analysis, preventative and corrective action to reduce/eliminate non-conformances.
- Participate in positive, team relationships with internal co-workers
- Continuously improve production processes by supporting Lean initiatives.
- Support the implementation, execution and adherence to product configuration management processes through:
- Preparing configuration documentations and maintaining the data quality, integrity and security of Configuration Management (CM) database.
- Deploy CM standard and recommend enhancements/improvements to existing CM processes through deployment of Lean initiatives and global collaboration with other CM teams.
- Schedule audits on CM database and analyse configuration issues. Implement appropriate resolutions to audit findings and configuration issues
- Support the development of manufacturing process solutions to complex problems through:
- Providing technical input for the implementation of production planning, from original concept through to production. Design these processes to a high level of process capability through utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite.
- Supporting product development, first article development, configuration changes, build process definition and implementation.
Job Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Technical understanding in Manufacturing Engineering, with a professional qualification / background (university degree) in engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical). Additionally:
- Graduate or equivalent with limited experience.
- Acceptable to depend on others for instruction, guidance and direction.
- Good communication skills and understanding of why they are important
- Ability to apply basic knowledge and skills to own work
- Identifies opportunities to improve performance
- Understands situations by analysing them logically
- Able to apply basic knowledge and skills to own work and only limited by experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- GKN Aerospace Experience
- Performs well as member of a team
- Recognises the impact that other people have on the achievement of objectives
- Defines and strives to meet own personal standards of excellence
- Understands the importance of new and innovative ways of working
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.
