Senior Stress Engineer

Company: Safran Seats

Job field: Mechanics

Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom

Contract type: Permanent

Contract duration: Full-time

Professional status: Professional, Engineer & Manager

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award-winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality, and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

The Senior Stress Engineer provides analytical guidance in structural and occupant injury simulation, working closely with other functions such as Design, Certification, and Production to ensure that seating products are lightweight, durable, and safe throughout their working life.

Key Responsibilities

1. In-depth working knowledge of aerospace industry standard stress analysis methods covering both hand calculations, linear/non-linear implicit FE analysis and/or multi-body dynamic analysis and/or non-linear explicit FE analysis methods.
2. Assist with identifying certification test failure risk, ensuring it is managed effectively and minimized with the use of appropriate analytical methods and judgment.
3. Prepare, review and approve hand calculations, linear static, non-linear, crash, multi-body dynamic and optimization FE models for seating products to support the design and certification process, plus the in-service life of the product.
4. Prepare, review and approve stress and structural documentation to submit for internal/external customers and regulatory approval.
5. Review and approve drawings, designs, concessions and repairs with respect to stress.
6. Support the Design team in ensuring that products meet cost and weight targets.
7. Identify structural design issues and recommend improvements and alternate solutions.
8. Support root cause analysis (e.g. 8D/Ishikawa).

Job Requirements

Minimum - 2:1 Bachelors (Honours) degree or equivalent in Mechanical/Aerospace/Structural Engineering.

5 years+ working in Aerospace or comparable industry.

Experience of working to industry standards and codes. Knowledge of Part 25 (EASA/FAA) and Boeing / Airbus specifications. Knowledge of ACs, ARPs and Aerospace Standards. Knowledge of Aerospace Material Standards and Material or component test standards and post-processing methods (e.g. ASTMs and BBasis calculations).

Organizational and planning skills with the ability to self-plan and manage the technical work.

Analysing structures made with high-performance steels, corrosion-resistant steels, aluminium and/or composite materials of both monolithic and sandwich panel construction.

Proficient in root cause analysis (4D/8D/Ishikawa).

Prepare, review and approve advanced linear/non-linear implicit FEMs and/or non-linear explicit FEMs and/or MBD models of large complex assemblies.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

1. 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
2. Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts and access to private healthcare
3. Career Progression opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
4. Family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave and flexible working
5. Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement
6. STEM engagement with schools, colleges and universities and charitable activities for all

Please apply and submit your CV today! Once your CV has been reviewed, we will contact you with the next stages.

We want Safran Seats to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Safran Seats an inclusive place to work.

Specificity of the Job

Occasional travel nationally, but rarely internationally.