Lead, Aircraft Stress Engineer
L3Harris Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Waco • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- responsible for performing structural fatigue and damage tolerance analysis of aircraft modifications
- including design support, and preparation of technical documentation necessary to ensure airworthiness
- identification of critical load paths in primary aircraft structure resulting from applied and induced operational loads
- determining the local stress concentrations, internal fastener load distributions, operational usage environments and design allowables
- development of tailored mission profiles and usage spectra for modified aircraft for use in calculation of service life
- willingness and ability to travel as necessary
- ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET security clearance
- must be able to work any shift, weekends, and overtime as required
- willingness to mentor less experienced engineers
- effective and demonstrated leadership qualities
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience.
- Graduate Degree (MSME, MSAE) and a minimum of 7 years of prior aircraft structural dynamics related experience.
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Must be a US citizen.
- Experience with predicting crack initiation lives and running industry-standard crack growth programs; e.g., AFGROW, NASGRO.
- Working knowledge of one programming language.
- Working knowledge of both military (Mil Standard) and civilian (14 CFRs) certification regulations and generating substantiation data to demonstrate compliance.
- Working knowledge on how to develop the Airworthiness Limitations section of the Instructions for Continued Airworthiness for a structural modification.
- Experience with standard Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) methods and corresponding crack growth detectable flaw sizes.
- Experience with Dynamic Response Fatigue Analysis (High-Cycle Fatigue) due to high vibration environments and/or acoustic fatigue stresses.
- CAD or analysis (FEA) tools exposure, and/or experience in mechanical design or analysis structures and mechanisms.
- Familiarity with transducer instrumentation, data collection and or automation and software programming for numerical analysis.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, and have general computer knowledge.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- competitive benefits
- generous relocation package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
structural fatigue analysisdamage tolerance analysisstress concentration determinationcrack initiation predictioncrack growth programsDynamic Response Fatigue AnalysisNondestructive Inspection methodsFinite Element Analysismechanical designdata collection
Soft skills
leadership qualitiesmentoringeffective communicationteam collaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitytime managementattention to detailorganizational skillswillingness to travel
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Aerospace EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Civil EngineeringGraduate Degree (MSME)Graduate Degree (MSAE)SECRET security clearance