Aerobloggen

We had barely landed in Sweden before the next interesting event started. People from the business sector, researchers, politicians och students gathered in Trollhättan to talk about a common interest – SPACE!

The days were packed with interesting lectures and panel discussions about today’s and future space activities. And inbetween the sessions, there was plenty of time to mingle and network among all space-intereseted people during common lunches, dinners and exhibitions.

My interest in space has increased since I started my employment here at GKN Aerospace, and after these days at Space Forum (Rymdforum 2019), I have gained a greater understanding of what the space industry contributes with to our everyday life. Not only is it impressive that we build spacecrafts together that can enable us to exit the atmosphere, we can also use these developed space technologies to make the world better. Satellites allows us to communicate with each other and navigate more easily, but they also create an opportunity for us to send more effective response forces to environmental disasters and the ability to monitor and analyze the climate change. Much of the research done in space has been applied here on earth, and that makes me optimistic about the future. The space industry is extremly impressive, I am hooked and looking forward to upcoming launches!

The week then went on with something that we have been really excited about: The assesment days for next year’s Graduates! It was fun to meet this year’s candidates and to be spectators instead of participants. The time flies by so fast, it was only a year ago since we were in their seat. 5 of you will be our new colleagues in September, we wish everyone who particpated good luck!

The week ended wit IGEday (Introduce a Girl to Engineering), where 28 happy, young girls spent the whole day together with us at GKN Aerospace. A great ending to this inspiring and eventful week.

Great visit at LARV 2019!

This wednesday, our collegues Jesper, Celine, Pelle, and Samuel visited LARV 2019. They got in contact with a lot of interesting students at LTU, and were happy to see that there was a great interest in our company and our products! If you missed us, you are more then welcome to write to us Young Graduates and ask us about our business and possibilities within our company: aerotrainees@gknaerospace.com

Are you also interested in the aviation and space industry? Are you up for exciting and challenging projects? Do you want to be a part of a team that makes things fly? Do you want to learn more about us?

Come to our exhibit:

• CHARM in Gothenburg, 5th-6th of february
• LARM in Linköping, 12th of february
• HotSpot in Karlstad, 13th of february

See you there!

NOTE: Don’t forget to apply to the GKN Aerospace Global Graduate Programme 2019. Click here to send in your application!

Hello, our devoted blog readers!

It’s now my turn to write a few lines about my first time at the company, hold on, it has happened a lot in just a few weeks!

I am currently working at my home department where we work with Lean and Logistics, a department that soon will be called Operational Excellence, and I’ve been enjoying it very much! During the 4 weeks that I have been here I’ve got the opportunity to get to know the lovely people who work here and the vibe of the department. As a graduate engineer, you work at your home department for 10 weeks before you change to a new department, which is a relatively short period of time when you are new at your post. Therefore, I’ve tried to capture the context of the department and tried to be involved in the projects that has appeared. I’ve been working with visualization of value flows and operations, the 5S method, and at the moment I work with SOLV (which my colleague Karin Thörnblad has created) which is an optimization model for optimizing production scheduling. Thanks to this, I have met and worked with many people with different posts at the company, and that has been the most interesting part!

In addition, Wictor Dörrich and I got the opportunity to attend a workshop last week where we discussed branding, and I will soon attend another workshop where we will discuss strategies in the field of environment. These are such inspiring meetings which I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to participate in!

And finally, I have one more update – We have got our trainee assignment for this year! We will work with VR technology during this year and create a virtual study visit at GKN Aerospace Engine Systems in Trollhättan, with purpose to inspire people with interest in technology to seek and apply to positions at our company. An exciting project that will give us an increased knowledge about VR and hopefully result in a tools that the company can use for future PR purposes!

On top of all this, snow has fell over Trollhättan and the city is now beautifully covered in cripsy white snow. I wish you a great week! Cheers!

/Nina Nordberg

Hello blog lovers!

We are happy to announce that we had our first external visit this week! A friendly group of Graduates from Siemens, Finspång, came to the GKN site in Trollhättan this wednesday and we were very happy to show them around. We presented our companies and graduate programs to eachother and found that there are many similarities between them two, but also interesting differences. Afterwards, they got the chance to see parts of our factory as we followed a product along its operations and processes through the work shops.

Thank you, Sanna Alladin, Nicky Dahl Alfredsson, Nathalie Hideborg, Simon Täufer and Andreas Wedberg! It was a pleasure having you over and to get to know you.

We look forward to keep in contact, and hopefully we will see you soon in Finspång!

Autumn is here, which means: New Young Graduates at GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan!

Finally, the Young Graduate Program has begun! It has now fallen upon us to keep this blog going for the events to come. We will soon post presentations of ourselves, but here is a sneak-peak:

Wictor Dörrich
– B.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management, M.Sc. Business administration, Jönköping International Business School

Filip Jensen
– M.Sc. Space Engineering, Spacecraft and Instrumentation, Luleå University of Technology

Nina Nordberg
– M.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Management, Mechanical Engineering, Karlstad University

Emelie Rönnbäck
– M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Linköping University

Amanda Dalstam
– B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. Production Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology

We have had two fast-paced weeks of meetings and workshop practice, and we have begun to create a greater understanding of the company’s core business and products. But the journey has only begun!

We are super excited about these upcoming 18 months and everything that it will offer us!

/Young Graduates 2018-2020