Description:
Experienced senior/lead aerospace stress engineer with significant experience in the analysis, certification and testing of metallic and composite primary structure.
Duties and Responsibilities: • Serve as subject matter expert stress engineer responsible for metallic primary structure.
• Provide leadership and guidance to a group of contract and associate stress engineers working on certification, analysis and testing.
• Experience writing certification stress reports, working with FAA DER's and structural testing needed.
• Applicant must be competent in both classic hand analysis (Bruhn, Peery, Roark, ESDU) methods as well as FEA.
• Must also have the ability to explain and present analysis and assumptions in a rational manner.
• Must be able to work in a dynamic and challenging environment where you will be expected to take ownership of assigned projects and see them through to completion.
• Provide recommendations and status updates to management.
Education, Work Experience, Certification and/or Licensure: • BS required, MS preferred Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering
• FAA DER is a major plus but not required. (14 CFR 23/25)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Experience with 3D solid modeling (CATIA v5, Unigraphics)
• Experience with programming languages (Python, VB, Matlab)
• Expert in Finite Element Analysis (NASTRAN, ABAQUS)
• Proficient computer skills with MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project
