Senior Stress Engineer

Job Title

Senior Stress Engineer

Job ID

ENG 013

Job Location

Albuquerque, NM

General Summary

The senior 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-pressure fuselage, wing, empennage, landing gear, flight controls, 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, vendors and supply chain.

Job Description

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
• 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
• Coordinate with vendors, design groups, manufacturing liaison, field service support and other groups as required

JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Required:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Aero, Civil, Mechanical or equivalent)
• Minimum of 10 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
• Basic 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
• Experience with CAD platforms such as NX, CATIA, Solidworks
• Familiarity with FEMAP and/or Patran, Visual Basic and Fortran

Preferred:

• Experience with composite materials and classic laminate theory analysis.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This is an individual contributor role without supervisory responsibilities.

WORKING CONDITIONS / PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Work may be performed in an office, warehouse or hangar environment with exposure to noise from aircraft and machinery. Light physical demands associated with an office work environment. May need to lift/move materials up to 25lbs. with or without assistance.

TRAVEL: 10% or less travel

REPORTS TO: Manager, Mechanical Engineering

SCHEDULE: M-F / exempt position with a minimum work week of 40 hours

SALARY RANGE: $100K – $150K / year

At Eclipse Aerospace, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on the revolutionary aircraft that began the Very Light Jet category of aircraft. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in aviation as demonstrated by the Eclipse Jet winning the 2005 Collier Trophy as that year’s “greatest achievement in aeronautics and astronautics in America”. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to improve on the Eclipse Jets for the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to keep our Eclipse Jets at the forefront of aviation.  Our employees are not only part of history, they continue making history.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. In addition, Eclipse provides a variety of benefits including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401K plan
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Paid Time off (holidays, vacation and sick time)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

This position will require successfully completing a post-offer background check which includes a pre-employment drug screen. Qualified candidates with a criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with federal law, state law, and local ordinances.

Eclipse Aerospace Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender, identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, at this time we are not able to sponsor visas.

If you need an accommodation or assistance in order to apply for a position with Eclipse Aerospace, please contact us at recruiting@eclipse.aero.

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