Stress Engineer
Airbus, an EADS Company headquartered in Toulouse, France, is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats.
We have a constant requirement for professional Engineers at all levels within the disciplines of Design, Analysis and Integration both at Systems and Component level. We would invite you to visit our website: www.airbus.com/work.
Airbus in the UK is responsible for the design, manufacture and assembly of all wings for the Airbus family of aircraft. Airbus in the UK has a workforce of around 12,000 people based at two sites; Broughton in Flintshire, North Wales and Filton in Bristol. Broughton has 6,500 employees and at Filton there are 5,500. More than 400 UK companies supply to Airbus and 100,000 jobs in the UK are secured by Airbus work.
A vacancy has arisen for a Stress Engineer to be based within the Wing Design Support group on the Broughton site (North Wales, near Chester), UK.
Reporting functionally to the Chief Stress Engineer (Wing Design Support) through the applicable Lead Stress Engineer and operationally to the applicable Manufacturing Support Engineering Team Leader, this role primarily involves the stress assessment and verification of solutions to manufacturing support issues on wing structure using Airbus methods and tools.
The candidate will be able to attain a level of signature delegation after an appropriate level of development and there may be a requirement to travel to support particular issues in the Supply Chain or Final Assembly Line.
As the successful candidate your principle activities will include:-
- Carrying out static stress calculations to assess design solutions for a range of tasks, ranging from modifications to manufacturing concessions against the Aircraft Design requirements.
- Liaising with specialists to ensure fatigue and damage tolerance requirements are met.
- Liaising with other functions and project to ensure stress requirements are fully integrated.
- Assisting in the structural design process to help ensure optimised design quality.
- Reporting critical technical issues up through functional management.
- Supporting on-going continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, process and other capability improvements.
As the successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:-
- Experience working as an aircraft stress engineer involved in the analysis of composite and metallic structures using a broad range of standard hand and computer methods.
- An understanding of aircraft production methods and processes, especially if gained through involvement in MRB or similar manufacturing support activities.
- The ability to ensure that solutions are technically integrated across the whole project.
- Chartered Engineer/ Aeronautical Engineering degree or equivalent.
- Broad range of standard hand and computer stress analysis tools.
- Good communication skills and a pro-active approach to problem solving.
- The ability to demonstrate good leadership skills.