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Title/Position: Aerospace Engineer
Type: Contract to Direct (Min 6 Months+ on assignment)
Location: Layton, UT, Hill Air Force BaseF-16 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP)
# of Positions: 1
Citizenship: U. S. Citizenship is required
Clearance Requirements:
Telework/Remote/Hybrid Options: Yes
Additional Client/Supporting: F-16 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP)
Our client is looking for a full-time Aerospace or Mechanical Engineer to join its F-16 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) engineering support team.
Required Education and Skills:
Desired Education and Skills:
Type: Contract to Direct (Min 6 Months+ on assignment)
Location: Layton, UT, Hill Air Force BaseF-16 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP)
# of Positions: 1
Citizenship: U. S. Citizenship is required
Clearance Requirements:
- Following Contract Assignment - DoD Secret Clearance, ability to re-activate DoD Secrete Clearance, and/or obtain DoD Secret Clearance- Must clear and obtain a favorable government background check
Telework/Remote/Hybrid Options: Yes
Additional Client/Supporting: F-16 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP)
Our client is looking for a full-time Aerospace or Mechanical Engineer to join its F-16 Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) engineering support team.
- The qualified candidate will primarily support F-16 ASIP Engineering personnel in numerous engineering tasks, including, but not limited to: analyzing aircraft inspection data, performing aircraft service life analyses, performing health of the F-16 fleet studies, and responding to engineering technical assistance requests.
- Candidate must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently with little supervision.
- Must have good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate directly with the customer.
- Must be willing to travel and interact with foreign representatives.
- Provide engineering analysis and repair recommendations to F-16 maintainers through engineering technical assistance requests to support and maintain aircraft
- Monitor, analyze, and report on aircraft special inspection programs, including Individual Aircraft Tracking (IAT) and Analytical Condition Inspections (ACI)
- Monitor, mine, analyze, update, and report aircraft and part inspection data
- Analyze and evaluate individual and fleet-wide aircraft service life data
- Mine and analyze stress, crack, fracture, and failure data
- Recommend inspections, retirement thresholds, and other parameters impacting aircraft service life
- Perform engineering analyses as directed by F-16 ASIP Engineering personnel
- Provide engineering expertise to support and maintain F-16 structural integrity
- Perform and evaluate risk analyses
- Perform other engineering related tasks as required
- Collaborate with military, civilian, and contracted engineers in performing all of the above tasks
- Position will initially be located at Hill Air Force Base, transferring to partial remote position after integration.
Required Education and Skills:
- B. S. degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering
- 2+ years engineering or analyzing aircraft or similar structures
- Thorough understanding of mechanics of materials concepts
- Thorough understanding of stress, strain, cracking, metal fatigue, and related mechanisms
- Demonstrable experience modeling stresses across a surface
- Fundamental knowledge of probability and statistics, and the ability to apply them to risk analyses
- Strong grasp of Microsoft Excel, Word and Office software
- DoD Secret Clearance, ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance or ability to obtain a favorable government background check
- U. S. Citizenship is required
Desired Education and Skills:
- Prior experience with F-16 or other similar aircraft structures and programs
- Familiarity with a USAF Aircraft Structural Integrity Program
- Awareness of corrosion, fretting, other environmentally-assisted degradation, fatigue, and failure mechanisms
- Understanding of standard Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) techniques used on aircraft structures
