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Financial Project Controller

KDC are sourcing a Financial Project Controller to actively manage the financial situation of multiple Aerospace supply projects.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Produce monthly financial reporting on project Key Performance Indicators comparing Actuals against Budget and Forecast [Sales, Margin, Cost, & Cash].
•Hold regular cost reviews with Work Package Managers to capture CTC e.g. Engineering, Procurement, etc. Take into account resourcing requirements.
•Work alongside your projects to ensure on time financial milestone achievement & ensure the necessary process is followed.
•Analysis of project actual costs, & correction of miss-bookings.
•Quarterly amendments to the CDP Pool to reflect the latest project status after agreement with the UK Financial Controller / Prime Controllers and Business Unit Leaders.
•Forecasting of project resourcing/manpower requirements by work package.
•Key subcontractor financial milestone management.
•Analysis of project key risks & opportunities and presentation to Controlling Business Partner.
•Quarterly tracking of major project non-quality events for communication to senior Management.
•Forecasting and management of project foreign currency requirements [EUR, USD, CAD].
•Ensure that the impacts of any project changes e.g. scope, schedule, etc. [on Sales, Margin, Cost, & Cash] are properly controlled and assist the Project Manager with creating Contract Change Notes / Change Proposals.
•Work closely with the Finance team to support the consolidation of the overall program financials.
•Participate in Project Control team process improvement activities.
•Respond to adhoc requests and contribute to future process innovations.
•To feedback to the team where positive added value contribution to the business can be enhanced and this job description and job spec can be updated.

JOB/TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:
•High MS Excel literacy.
•Knowledge of SAP, Business Warehouse, Impact.
•Financially aware with high business partnering acumen.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT/INDUSTRY:
•Project Based environment within Aerospace Industry.

DESIRABLE REQUIRMENTS:
•Experience from management accounting role within a project-based environment, CIMA or ACCA qualified or trainee.
•Another European Language (French / German) would be advantageous
•Demonstration of international work experience
•Digitally aware and can demonstrate active professional engagement with media forums

Job Type:

Contract

Location:

Stevenage

Salary:

£30 per hour

Job Ref:

J140693

FEM Engineer

KDC are recruiting for one of our clients based out of Bristol, for an FEM Engineer within the aerospace industry.

Project Description:
A350XWB -900 & -1000 Step Changes
This package of work is continued static/FEM support for the aircraft through major modifications

Tasks are likely to include:
o Assessment of structure due to modification driven by repairer enhancement of the airframe using ISAMI and other Airbus static methodologies
o Airbus Stress Dossier compilation
o FEM modification and interrogation
o Loads processing and large scale data manipulation


Key experiences and skills:
-Strong engineering background - MEng, BEng or similar and 5+ years of industry experience.
-Airbus experience within the field of Static Stress and FEM analysis
-A350 experience preferred
-Understanding of Airbus A1020 FEM Verification process
-Experience of working to tight deadlines on projects.
-Good Inter-personal and organizational skills
-Eye for detail and good problem solver.
-Quick learner and highly self-motivated.
-Computer skills Microsoft Office and ISAMI, MathCAD, Patran/Nastran


Advantageous skills:
-Hyperworks
-Python
-VBA
-Airbus stress signatory


Feel free to reach out to us directly or send your CV to alex.j.a4lh2fo9ogj@kdcresource.aptrack.co

Job Type:

Permanent

Location:

Bristol

Salary:

£35000 - £40000 per annum

Job Ref:

J140694

Stress Engineer

Are you a Static Stress Engineer looking for your next contract? Do you have experience using Isami? If so, we may have the right opportunity for you.

Our global client based in the South West is looking for a number of engineers to join their A320 team. The A320 family is now undergoing a revolution with major developments of new variants, stress to cost and digitisation of product and process to achieve ramp up.

The day to day duties of the role will involve:
·Static structural analysis activities with one of the A320 family Wing project engineering team.
·Creating Preliminary stress sheets in support of Design Reviews,, Justification stress dossiers in support of Certification, Modification or Structural Repair Manual , creating detailed FEMSPre sizing new or modified structure - advising Designers of stress needs
·Checking and validating others calculations (where experience permits)


Ideal candidates should have the following skills and experience:
·5 Year's or more experience in an Engineering structural analysis role.
·Producing static stress calculations with minimal leadership or supervision
·Presenting those calculations in a concise and clear manner
·Achieving delivery to Time, Cost and Quality.
·Finding creative solutions to complex problems and low RF resolution
·Experience using the Airbus ISAMI suite of Stress Analysis Tools
·Experience of FEA Linear analysis and be aware of opportunities available with using Non Linear FEA
·Experience in airframe engineering and preferably on Wing structures
·The ability to listen, understand and communicate information
·Desire to work in an open and trusting environment.
·You will integrate and influence technical experts and specialists to achieve optimum technical and business solutions.


For more information please call 01202596370

Job Type:

Contract

Location:

Bristol

Salary:

Competitive

Job Ref:

J140600

Quality Engineer - Lineside

Are you a Quality Engineer with Line Side experience? Are you looking for your next contract opportunity? If so, we may have the right role for you.

Our global client based in the Chester area is looking for an experienced Quality Line Side Engineer to join their team on a contract basis.

Job Purpose:
• To support the evaluation, co-ordination and monitoring of achieved levels of conformity in the product, process and services provided by the Manufacturing Business.
• To provide specialist Quality support and advice on drawings, parts, processes and support services, and to independently assure that Quality requirements have been met.
• To ensure that staff are developed to attain the necessary knowledge / skills, performance and experience and that the tools, systems and procedures with which they work are developed to support efficient business processes.


Major activities of Quality Line Side Engineer:
• Assures that the Quality system is being adhered to within the business by the business through surveillance activities.
• Assures that certification processes are consistently defined and applied within the business.
• Co-ordination and leadership of reported quality / technical issues from business teams and customers, ensuring that appropriate corrective and preventative action is taken by the accountable function through use of multifunctional team activities and that the originator of the issue is informed.
• To perform initial investigations (e.g. 8D, Retouches, PB's, CQLB's, RNCA's, NCA's) to assess probable cause, informing the accountable function and ensuring corrective and preventative action is taken within one shift, preventative action to be taken through problem solving analysis through multifunctional team activities.
• To perform process conformation and surveillance activities on all the product and process related activities conducted by those individuals who have been granted certification privileges.
• To conduct investigations to assess the probable cause of any deficiency noted during process conformation activities, informing the accountable function and ensuring corrective and preventative action is taken.
• The facilitation of the use of Quality tools and techniques within the business area.
• Provide support to the Quality Group Leader / Product Quality Manager for the day-to-day management of Quality Line Side Engineers.
• Creation of customer protection and visual management of issues.
• Data collection for conformance management teams.


Ideal candidates should have the following skills and experience:
• SAP Awareness and experience
• Lean Manufacturing Tools and Techniques
• Green/Black Belt
• Previous Lineside experience required

Please note you must have the right to work in the EU.

Job Type:

Contract

Location:

Chester

Salary:

Competitive

Job Ref:

J140692

Software Developer

Are you a Software Developer looking for an exciting career in the development of space related applications and services? Do you want to work for a growing company based in high end facilities and join an experienced software team developing bespoke applications within the space domain, where you would be involved in all of the key software lifecycle aspects: requirements, design, development and test. KDC are working on an opportunity with one of our main clients based in Luton.

Responsibilities:
• Software design to implement the features / requirements compatible with the application and platform architecture.
• Implementation of high-quality software source code
• Unit and integration testing of the software
• Linux/Windows development and scripting

Qualifications / Experience:
• Degree in relevant subject with Software Engineering modules or equivalent experience

Essential Skills
• C++ programming
• User requirement analysis
• Functional Testing
• Descriptive design documentation
• Embedded Systems Development
• Web Applications Development
• Database Design, Administration & SQL
• Big Data Databases (e.g. HDFS, other non-SQL)
• Big Data Processing & Frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)
• Continuous integration/deployment environments (Jenkins)
• Understanding of virtualisation / cloud based computing
• Understanding of Containers and Orchestration (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes)
• Resource Oriented Architecture Development (REST)

Desirable Skills
• Knowledge of Agile / Scrum development methodology

If this position is something of interest, please send through your CV and call 01202 596366 to speak to Eugene.

Job Type:

Permanent

Location:

Luton

Salary:

Competitive Salary Offered

Job Ref:

J140668