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Hello everyone!

Yesterday we went away to have some activates together before the summer holiday. We talked about engagement and how we can strengthen it and then we went out in the sun to play frisbee golf. Now we’re going on holiday and I can’t really understand that we’ve been here for a whole year soon! Since the start, we’ve been around on different rotations and I myself have been within production, supply chain and now finally purchasing. I have studied nonconformities , contributed to the work with the visualization of the service flow for RM12, set up project plans, learned how we work with our suppliers and identified areas of which we should focus on in the future and much more. I have gained insight into many different parts of the company and have also had time to get involved in both a Sustainability Workstream and the board of Young@GAS.

As a trainee group, we have had a project together where we worked on behalf of the composite lab in our Global Technology Center where the goal has been to develop a product to be able to perform safe knife changes and to review their forming station. We have also attended various trainings, gone to the air flotilla F7 in Såtenäs, visited Aeroseum, participated and planned both fairs and events and we of course hope for even more in the future.

When we return from the vacation, it’s soon time to welcome both new trainees and “tekniksprångare” to us and we really long to be able to meet physically again! Of course, the pandemic has canceled some of our planned activities, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed, that by autumn, we will be able to get away a bit more. Above all, we hope for a visit to Bristol, just outside London, to visit our sites and one of our newly built Global Technology Centers located there!

I wish you all a really nice summer and you will hear from us again in the autumn!

My

Hi there all readers!

A year ago, I was planning my master thesis. Already during the summer I started thinking about it. Many thoughts and questions but not as many answers. Would I stay in Luleå where I studied or would I move to the Stockholm area where I grew up or would I stay in Sweden at all? What company? Should I write only myself or with someone and if so, who? What are the pros and cons?

In September I started to look around for options and already at the end of September/ early October I had knew where I would carry out my degree project and what it would be about what but with whom was not clear until the beginning of December. In January 2020, I moved down to Södertälje, a town outside Stockholm, and began my thesis together with a classmate and just when we started to get into our project, a pandemic came and our whole setup had to be rethought. Also there, however, time went incredibly fast and suddenly it was June and digital presentations were held for both school and company and shortly afterwards, there it was, I had my diploma in hand.

Despite the fact that a pandemic has hit the whole world and companies as well as cities are shutting down, I am incredibly happy to be able to tell you that we will bring in thesis workers during the spring of 2021 again. If you, who are reading this, are thinking about writing your thesis, I highly recommend taking a look at the degree projects that can be carried out here with us at GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan.

You can find degree projects HERE and we regularly publish degree projects so if you don’t find anything right now, feel free to come back and check again in a while. However, do not wait too long to apply as I know that the last application date for some is already in mid-November and that selection may take place on an ongoing basis. If you have any questions or concerns about the thesis, there is contact information in each brief, or visit GKN’s website HERE . If you still have questions, you are of course welcome to contact us at aerotrainees@gknaerospace.com.

I hope to see you here in the spring!
Have a nice week,
My

Hello!

Last week we ended our workshop practice with presentations and tours to share with each other about what we had learned during the week. We were all in a bit different places to be able to broaden our understanding and product knowledge about the parts being manufactured here in Trollhättan. I myself followed details, so-called discs, which will later on be put in some of Pratt & Whitney’s engines (as you can see in the picture below). It was really interesting to see how the large amount of different products, which required different processing and different amount of time, actually went through the stream since these parts does not count as high volume products at the company. On behalf of the group, I would also like to take the opportunity to thank everyone out in the workshops who showed us around and shared their knowledge and took care of us during these days and I hope to see you again soon!

Due to the current situation, we have unfortunately not had the opportunity to do a physical onboarding as the previous trainees did at the beginning of the program, but luckily there is internet! J Since we started at GKN, we have started an online onboarding where we had the opportunity to listen to exciting guest speakers, participated in Q&A’s, broaden our understanding of principles, engagement and group development as well as we have gotten to know the trainees from last year’s group thanks to online meetings.

This week will be our first activity week where we will now continue to learn about group development and group dynamics. We are also very happy that we managed to book some study visits, but exactly where we are going and how it was, you will find out next week!

Hope you had a good weekend and I wish you a nice week and we will be in touch again soon!

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