Senior Gas Turbine Stress Engineer
KBR, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Gloucester • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £65,000 - £80,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Assessing the structural integrity of gas turbines to support growing demand for our services from clients in the aerospace and power industries.
- Conducting strength, fatigue, creep and defect tolerance assessments of safety critical parts using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods.
- Writing bespoke software tools to assess components more quickly.
- Delivering and leading projects across the Frazer-Nash portfolio, supporting customers in the defence, energy and transport sectors.
- Meeting and communicating with customers to understand their requirements and develop the approach to deliver the desired outcomes and insights.
- Working across the business and with clients in a consultancy environment.
Requirements
- A degree in engineering or equivalent.
- Technical knowledge in the mechanical / structural engineering domain.
- In-depth experience of advanced Finite Element Analysis such as cracked-body modelling, modelling material non-linearities, authoring user sub-routines and using software such as Abaqus, Ansys or SC03.
- Experience in strength, fatigue (low cycle and high cycle fatigue), creep and fracture assessments.
- Experience in a technical consultancy environment (advantageous).
- Experience of business development (advantageous).
- Experience of building client relationships (advantageous).
- Experience of project management (advantageous).
- Experience of leading large and/or multi-disciplinary projects (advantageous).
- Experience of delivering complex technical work in a commercial environment (advantageous).
Benefits
- Competitive salary with yearly reviews.
- 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
- A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
- Happy to talk flexible working.
- Enhanced parental benefits.
- Company pension scheme.
- Targeted professional development.
- Life assurance.
- Private healthcare membership.
- Bonus scheme linked into company performance.
- Paid membership fees to a professional institution.
- Support in attaining professional membership.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Season rail ticket loan.
- And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements.
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Hard skills
Finite Element Analysisstrength assessmentfatigue assessmentcreep assessmentdefect tolerance assessmentcracked-body modellingmaterial non-linearitiesuser sub-routinesproject managementbusiness development
Soft skills
communicationclient relationship buildingleadershipconsultancyproject delivery
Certifications
degree in engineering