Senior Stress Engineer

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Your Mission:

Support structural sizing and substantiation activities with disciplined analysis, documentation, and traceability.

Provide technical guidance and decision-making support to the E9X development on complex structural topics.

Creation, validation, and interpretation of finite element (FE) models for aircraft and subsystems

Metallic and Composite/Hybrid Structure Engineering – Analysis and Validation of structural components and assemblies that are optimized in terms of weight, cost, performance.

Improve design decisions by making assumptions, margins, and limitations explicit.

Collaborate with the testing team to define tests, instrumentation and test correlations.

Participation in the development of the technological areas of structural discipline.

Development of analytical tools and methods.

Day-to-Day:

Lead Stress analysis of structural parts, components and installations as well as integration of systems and equipment.

Stress analysis by means of FEM techniques (preparation, validation and assessment of results) and application of traditional stress justification methods and tools (hand calculations and FEA).

Build and maintain analysis models and inputs (geometry, materials, loads, boundary conditions).

Support sizing iterations with design engineers; document assumptions and margins.

Prepare verification reports and lead design reviews for the structural related topics.

Structural Test definition and test correlation activities. Define, interpret and validate tests. Interface and communicate with relevant stakeholders.

Working ties to other Engineering departments (e.g., design, system engineering, aerodynamic…).

Develop the stress strategy including Knowledge Management.

Ensure adherence to relevant regulations, relevant design principles, processes, methods and manufacturing capabilities guideline.

Provide technical guidance and peer reviews for junior and mid-level engineers.

Participate in configuration control: ensure analyses match released design baselines.

Maintain an organized evidence trail (inputs, versions, results, review comments, actions).

Thrives in an autonomous work environment and takes ownership of tasks.

Traits for Success

MSc in Aerospace/Mechanical or similar.

>10 years’ experience in aircraft structures analysis.

Solid experience in aeronautical structural sizing (Stress Engineering).

Deep knowledge of aircraft structures, composites, metallic materials, and aerospace standards

Proficiency in structural FEM (e.g. Hypermesh, Nastran,…) and hand calculations.

Experience defining, supervising, and analyzing structural test plans (Static, Fatigue, and Ground Vibration Tests).

Ability to serve as a Subject Matter Expert.

Previous experience in dealing with Certification Authorities (EASA/FAA).

Proven ability to manage external partners and suppliers for technical deliverables.

Ability to document assumptions, margins, and limitations clearly.

Care for traceability: you can show which design baseline and load case your result applies to.

Problem-Solving and proactive person. Identify and solve problems before they occur rather than reacting to them.

Nice-to-have

Experience in fracture mechanics and fatigue life prediction.

Extensive Experience working with loads inputs and design allowable.

Experience in a configuration-controlled environment.

Experience with programming in Python, Visual basic or similar.

Aircraft OEM previous working experience.

Familiarity with structural design and CATIA.