Senior Stress Engineer

Description:

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specializes solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales.

The Senior Stress Engineer provides analytical guidance in structural and occupant injury simulation, working closely with other functions such as Design, Certification and Production to ensure that seating products are lightweight, durable and safe throughout their working life.

Leading a Programme Focused Stress Team, Planning and Task Allocation, monitoring cost and maintaining technical excellence.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

* Plan and manage own workload and a limited number of others stress activities for a specific program

* Technically support junior stress engineers to ensure tasks are completed to requirements of time, cost and quality

* Assist with identifying certification test failure risk, an ensure it is managed effectively and minimized with the use of appropriate analytical methods and judgement

* Prepare, review and approve hand calculations, linear static, non-linear, crash, multi-body dynamic assessment would be favourable and optimization FE models for seating products to support the design and certification process, plus the in-service life of the product

* Prepare, review and approve stress and structural documentation to submit for internal/external customers and regulatory approval

* Review and approve drawings, designs, concessions and repairs with respect to stress

* Support the Design team in ensuring that products meet regulatory, cost and weight targets

* Identify structural design issues and recommend improvements and alternate solutions

* Supporting root cause analysis (e.g. 8D/Ishikawa)

* Assist in producing plans of tasks and resource to Programme Team for stress activities

* Liaise with Design, Certification, Manufacturing and other company departments as required

* Liaise with external suppliers, customers, airframers, regulatory bodies and other industrial organizations as required

* Provide expertise and lead continuous improvement initiatives of department processes, methods and manuals

Requirements:

* Ideally a working knowledge of regulations FAR/CS 25-561, EASA Part 21 J, ARP 5526 and Airframer specifications

* Be familiar with all aspects of Aerospace engineering techniques

* In-depth working knowledge of aerospace industry standard stress analysis methods covering both hand calculations, linear/non-linear implicit FE analysis, Multi-body dynamic analysis and/or non-linear explicit FE analysis methods would be considered an advantage.

* Be innovative in their approach to problem solving. Ensure that innovative and creative ideas are supported, evaluated and investigated to conclusion

* Minimum - 2:1 Bachelors (Honours) degree or equivalent in Mechanical/Aerospace/Structural Engineering

* Preferably - MEng or PhD with specialism in FEA, simulation, dynamics, materials and/or structures. Degree accredited with IMechE. CEng status

* Experience of working to industry standards and codes. Knowledge of Part 25 (EASA/FAA) and Boeing / Airbus specifications. Knowledge of ACs, ARPs and Aerospace Standards. Knowledge of Aerospace Material Standards and Material or component test standards and post-processing methods.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you