Specialist, Structural Engineering
L3Harris Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Huntsville • Alabama • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Perform structural analysis to verify product designs meet structural performance requirements and assist with preliminary design verification.
- Manage and/or support structural modeling and analysis efforts for solid rocket motor (SRM) components.
- Collaborate closely with cross-disciplinary teams and interface with customers.
- Drive analysis tasks for SRM components including metallic and composite motor cases, nozzles, insulation, and propellant grains.
- Ensure structural integrity across all phases of flight and ground handling.
- Build and execute finite element models using ANSYS, ABAQUS, or comparable tools.
- Collaborate with thermal, CFD, and performance teams to establish loading conditions.
- Apply classical methods to validate and supplement numerical results.
- Import and simplify solid CAD models for analysis.
- Produce high-quality technical reports and presentations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior structural analysis experience.
- Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior structural analysis experience.
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior structural analysis experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree (in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related Engineering discipline) is preferred.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Proven experience in linear, nonlinear, and dynamic structural analysis supporting design and qualification of solid rocket motors.
- Proficiency with FEA tools such as ANSYS Mechanical; experience with ANSYS MAPDL or Python scripting is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with structural assessment and design of filament-wound composite pressure vessels is a strong asset.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret aerospace structural requirements and coordinate load development with cross-functional teams.
- Working knowledge of structural instabilities, material nonlinearities, and coupled load environments.
- Exposure to full lifecycle aerospace SRM propulsion product development, from design through manufacturing and test.
- Strong technical communication skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Benefits
- Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
structural analysisfinite element analysislinear structural analysisnonlinear structural analysisdynamic structural analysisstructural modelingCAD modelingtechnical report writingPython scriptingcomposite material assessment
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationcross-functional teamworktechnical communicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillscustomer interfacepresentation skillsanalytical thinkingattention to detail