Senior Stress Engineer in Wimborne, Dorset

Job title - Senior Stress Engineer
Location - Wimborne (Hybrid)
Permanent position
Salary - Very competitive

Description:
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Stress Engineer to join one of our largest UK Aerospace companies!
You will be supporting all product lines within the business with a focus on composite design, analysis and manufacture. Composite structures in use are glass and carbon prepreg layups with various combinations of co-cured or bonded joints. It is expected that the role will also provide the opportunity to work on, or develop, the applicants experience working on metallic structures.

This role is based from Wimborne, Dorset.

As a Senior Stress Engineer, your main responsibilities will involve:

• Ownership of all stress deliverables to meet design review entry requirements
• Stress signatory for drawing issues
• Stress signatory for non-conformance reports
• Support to manufacturing engineering team in support of production
• Support to concessions and design modifications
• Mentor less experienced engineers / graduate (the role does not have line management responsibility)
• Prepare estimates to complete stress packages of work (new bids / modifications to existing products)
• Preparation and management of work packages to be outsourced to 3rd party engineering outsource providers
• Pieces of work within project teams including the R&D function to provide subject matter expertise for new product development using existing or new composite materials
• Review existing FEM and reports and investigate / analysis deviations and changes to the design.

Qualifications:

• Ideally, you will have worked in aerospace industry but this is not mandatory if you are able to demonstrate strong understanding of the following:
• Support to composite design process working with design engineers
• Building FE models, running analysis, post processing and authoring of reports for composite structures
• Static strength and fatigue analysis of composites structures utilising hand calculations and Finite Element Analysis techniques as appropriate
• Ability to write stress reports to demonstrate compliance of composite structures to meet structural and performance requirements
• Understanding of drawing change process and assessment of appreciable effect (fit, form, function) with respect to non-compliances or drawing changes
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings for composite structures

It would also be beneficial if you have experience in the following areas:

• Use of an LCM system such as SmarTeam or Windchill
• Dynamic analysis / impact analysis
• Knowledge of developing composite technologies
• Optimisation techniques for composite design
• Vibration analysis / frequency response analysis
• CAD user able to open and manipulate 3D parts where required to assist with FEM

If you think this is the role for you, just get in touch!

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.