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We are interested in every qualified applicant. However, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.
GENERAL SUMMARY
The Senior Stress Engineer will perform and check stress, fatigue, and damage tolerance analyses for primary and secondary airframe structures. The structure will include pressurized and un-pressure fuselage, wing, empennage, landing gear, flight controls, interior components and payloads. The Stress Engineer will work with internal and external customers including airframe, mechanical, propulsion, and avionics design groups, customer field service, manufacturing liaison and MRB, vendors and supply chain.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Perform static strength, fatigue analysis, and damage tolerance analysis based on various loading conditions or combination of load conditions that included flight loads, ground loads, emergency loads, vibration loads, installation loads, environment induced loads, abuse loads, etc.
- Support manufacturing liaison / MRB and customer field support
- Document stress analysis in formal report system for each drawing
- Write formal documentation of analysis results, assumptions, methodology, and techniques for FAA and foreign civil authority certification
- Review and approve vendor drawings, stress reports, and test reports
- Plan and support structural tests as required
- Solve typical structures engineering problems associated with the research, design, development and manufacture of the aircraft
- Coordinate with vendors, design groups, manufacturing liaison, field service support and other groups as required
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Required:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Aero, Civil, Mechanical or equivalent)
- Minimum of 10 years of airframe stress experience
- Knowledge of performing hand calculations
- Knowledge of preparing stress reports, covering static, fatigue and damage tolerance
- Familiar with relevant FAA certification requirements
- Knowledge of repair design and substantiation of metallic and composite structure
- Strong computer skills, utilizing common tools such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
- Basic understanding of metallic airframe structures including application of diagonal tensioning
- Good knowledge of NASTRAN software
- Ability to read and interpret detailed drawings, design requirements, and technical reports and data
- Experience with CAD platforms such as NX, CATIA, Solidworks
- Familiarity with FEMAP and/or Patran, Visual Basic and Fortran
Preferred:
- Experience with composite materials and classic laminate theory analysis.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This is an individual contributor role without supervisory responsibilities.
WORKING CONDITIONS / PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Work primarily performed in an office. May have some exposure to noise from aircraft and machinery in a warehouse or hangar environment. Light physical demands associated with an office work environment.
TRAVEL: 10% or less travel
REPORTS TO: Manager, Mechanical Engineering
SCHEDULE: M-F / exempt position with a minimum work week of 40 hours
Salary Range: $100,000 - $150,000 per year
