L3Harris Technologies

Lead, Aircraft Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer

L3Harris Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Waco • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • responsible for performing structural fatigue and damage tolerance analysis of aircraft modifications
  • 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

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
  • 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
Benefits
  • competitive benefits
  • generous relocation package for those who qualify

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Hard skills
structural fatigue analysisdamage tolerance analysisstress concentration analysiscrack initiation predictioncrack growth programsDynamic Response Fatigue AnalysisNondestructive Inspection methodsFinite Element Analysismechanical designprogramming