Stress Engineer

Stress Engineer

Stress Engineer If you are interested joining an organization with a reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise, a position with Eclipse Aerospace may be what you are seeking. Our employees are encouraged to use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective services/products in the industry. We are committed an Agile work environment where our employees contribution are not only welcomed but are essential to our company strategy and success. Eclipse Aerospace is committed to supporting our employees' well-being by providing a robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision plans
• Flexible Spending Account/Health Savings Account
• 401k plan
• Voluntary benefits
• Company provided Life Insurance
• Company provided Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Paid time off including holidays, vacation and sick leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Work Options when available
• Annual discretionary performance based bonuses, designed to reward individual and team contributions to the company's ongoing success

Department: Engineering Location: Albuquerque, NM Remote: No
Schedule: M-F / exempt position with a minimum work week of 40 hours
Travel: Minimal travel may be required Supervisory Role: No Reports to: Manager, Engineering
Salary Range: $95K - $130K / year GENERAL SUMMARY The Stress Engineer will perform and check stress, fatigue, and damage tolerance analyses for primary and secondary airframe structures. The structure will include pressurized and un-pressurized metallic fuselage, wing, empennage, landing gear, flight controls, non -metallic and composite exterior and interior components and payloads. The Stress Engineer will work with internal and external customers including airframe, mechanical, propulsion, and avionics design groups, customer field service, manufacturing liaison and MRB, internal and external FAA Designated Engineering Representatives, vendors and supply chain. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Perform static strength, fatigue analysis, and damage tolerance analysis based on various loading conditions or combination of load conditions that included flight loads, ground loads, emergency loads, vibration loads, installation loads, environment induced loads, abuse loads, etc.

• Support manufacturing liaison / MRB and customer field support and coordination with DER
• Document stress analysis in formal report system for each drawing
• Write formal documentation of analysis results, assumptions, methodology, and techniques for FAA and foreign civil authority certification
• Review and approve vendor drawings, stress reports, and test reports
• Plan and support structural tests as required
• Solve typical structures engineering problems associated with the research, design, development and manufacture of the aircraft and its components.
• Coordinate with vendors, design groups, manufacturing liaison, field service support and other groups as required

Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Aero, Civil, Mechanical or equivalent)
• Minimum of 5 years of airframe stress experience
• Knowledge of performing hand calculations
• Knowledge of preparing stress reports, covering static, fatigue and damage tolerance
• Familiar with relevant FAA certification requirements
• Knowledge of repair design and substantiation of metallic and composite structure
• Strong computer skills, utilizing common tools such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Good understanding of metallic airframe structures including application of diagonal tensioning
• Good knowledge of NASTRAN software
• Ability to read and interpret detailed drawings, design requirements, and technical reports and data
• Familiarity with CAD platforms such as NX, CATIA, Solidworks
• Experience with FEMAP and/or Patran
• Familiarity with Visual Basic and Fortran

Qualifications (Preferred):

• Experience with AFGROW or other damage tolerance software
• Experience with composite materials and classic laminate theory analysis
• Knowledge or experience with Agile methodology

We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work in the U.S. We may in our discretion provide visa sponsorship on a selective basis. If you have these skills and experience, we encourage you to apply!

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