Stress Engineer

General Summary:

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