Senior Stress Engineer - Rocket Propulsion

Senior Stress Engineer - Rocket Propulsion

• Stress; FEA; Structures; Materials Science; Mechanical Engineering
• 40,000 - 55,000 + excellent bens.
• Kidderminster (Hybrid available)

A cutting-edge Aerospace & Defence organisation have a unique opportunity for a Stress Engineer to join their Design team.

The design department designs new and modified rocket motors and related systems. Analysis of rocket motor designs, including: Ballistic performance prediction and modelling, propellant charge and hardware stress analysis, and the provision of documentation service.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & REPONSIBILITIES - Stress Engineer

Technical Responsibilities

• Analysis of new and existing rocket motor systems such as motor hardware and propellant charge structural and thermal analysis using FEA software.
• The use of various software and programming techniques, including: Abaqus, Altair-Hyperworks, Fortran and Matlab.
• Rheological analysis of material testing results and providing advice to the technical community for validation and verification of FEA models.
• Development of motor structural test plans and involvement in the delivery and assessment of the structural testing results.
• Responsible as the structural performance technical authority aspects of assigned projects, including supporting project customer meetings, project investigations, design reviews, and corresponding customer stress engineers.
• Deliver key project documentation including, structural analysis and structural test plans and reports and structural design records.

EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND - Stress Engineer

• Educated to degree level in an engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Aerospace or Structural or another related discipline such as Material Science.
• Material science knowledge
• Use of ABAQUS software in an professional or academic environment
• Experience with CAD modelling