Senior Stress Engineer

Senior Stress Engineer
Aircelle, as part of a joint venture with Nexcelle, have won, and are in the running to further win future projects and manage a challenging range of existing products. This role offers an exciting opportunity to join the Aircelle Engineering Team to help deliver these new projects.

Job Role

As the Senior Stress Engineer you will be required to represent the Aircelle Stress and Engineering departments at both internal and customer facing meetings. You will be expected to drive through new product development and R&T projects, to achieve timescales, requirements and costs. As an experienced Stress Engineer you will providing technical guidance and assistance to junior stress engineers and checking and approval of stress work is key. You will develop and validating new products from a structural analysis perspective.

Responsibilities

• Definition and application of efficient stress methodologies to support structural optimisation, validation of product and demonstration of compliance to customer requirements for static, fatigue and damage tolerance
• Setting up cost effective FEM representation of products for linear, non-linear and dynamic analyses, applicable post processing and interpretation of results
• Assessment and manipulation of loading inputs to establish critical load case definitions to be reviewed for structural certification in both static and fatigue conditions
• Creation and approval of clear and concise reports of work completed for both internal and external issue
• Liaison with customers, suppliers and internal resource on stress related issues and work packages
• Promoting and contributing to initiatives aimed at improving the performance of the stress team, engineering and the business
• Monitoring and reporting on stress deliverables for the programme and feedback to the Engineering Project Manager
• Check and approve schemes, models, drawings and supplementary data, ensuring adherence to approved methodologies, input to certification schedules, procedures and technical specifications.
• Definition of physical product testing for both R&T and new development work to validate methods and assumptions applied including liaison with test engineers to generate plans and analysis and interpretation of results
• Working within Aircelle standard procedures and stress handbook methods
• Manage the sub contracting of stress packages, providing technical support and guidance where required

Essential Experience

• Experience of stress analysis in static, fatigue and damage tolerance at a senior level
• Experience of stress analysis of both composite and metallic structures
• Good knowledge of Nastran and Patran software in linear and non linear analysis
• Excellent knowledge of performing hand calculations (using such tools as ESDU, Niu, Bruhn )
• Excellent knowledge of preparing stress report, covering static, fatigue and damage tolerance
• Good general aircraft knowledge and experience of aerostructures loading and analysis

Desirable experience
• Project management and vendor design work package outsourcing
• Certification knowledge and authority

As an employee of Aircelle Ltd., you will be part of a highly motivated team where the emphasis is on technical and management career and personal development, employee involvement and a culture built around trust and respect.
Aircelle Ltd. combines the advantages of a dynamic and growing significantly-sized business with all of the benefits of an organisation that encourages an autonomous, entrepreneurial culture. This environment provides opportunities for deeper creativity, variety and scope in the workplace, and it also includes the benefits of in-house training, regular salary reviews and involvement in creating a great place to work.

Aircelle is a major player in the worldwide aircraft engine nacelle market. Aircelle has seven sites in France, the United Kingdom and Morocco and employs around 3,000 people of whom 750 are based at Aircelle, Burnley. Aircelle is the only engine nacelle manufacturer worldwide doing business in all segments of the market, from regional and business aircraft to the largest commercial airliners. Aircelle also is developing the worldwide customer support and service activity for nacelles and their components. Aircelle is a subsidiary of Safran, the international high-technology group specialised in aerospace, defence and security.

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