Structural Repair Engineer - Stress
Location : Cambridge - UK
Experience : 6 to 12 years
Aerospace domain
Required Skills
- Experience in Stress analysis of Aircraft structural components.
- Experience in first principles mechanical analysis via hand calculation and industry standard methodologies, and repair stress analysis, including durability and damage tolerance
- Strong in technical concepts (Structural design and stress analysis incl. F&DT)
- Able to communicate and understand key design engineering considerations
- Knowledge of design and sizing of aircraft primary structural components and parts.
- Able to collaborate and work independently when needed.
- Ability to liaise/negotiate with Design, Fatigue.
- Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization, set objectives and prioritize to time, cost and quality.
- Technically competent with the principles used to generate compliance data.
- A Team player demonstrating a positive and collaborative attitude.
- Good interpersonal skills, flexibility and adaptability and Good communication skills, continuous learning aptitude and proactive to define one’s contribution to the role/requirement
Activities to perform
- Create high quality integrated and certified engineering solutions for the aircraft
- Carry out calculations to assess design solutions using standard hand and methods. Create, compile and co-ordinate engineering documentation to achieve valid technical data for repair.
- Liaise with Design and other appropriate departments to come up with optimum design solutions for the airliner customer.
- Liaise with Principal and Senior Stress engineers in order to ensure that methods, assumptions, data and procedures reflect on-going developments.
- Ensure, with the relevant technical signature delegations, that the final repair solution brings the aircraft back into an airworthy condition.
- Identify and support local improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through process, method and tools improvements ensuring alignment with respective focal points.
- Ensure all tasks and activities required for Repair Engineering are correctly planned, monitored and executed to achieve customer time scales.
- With good communication skills, provide responses for routine queries, giving advice and guidance as required and Customer Services on repair matters.
- With Repair Design be a member of an integrated engineering team, ensuring its strategy, policy and direction is maintained.
Preferred Skills
- Experience of performing stress justification of aircraft repair solutions..
- Knowledge of Aircraft Static stress and fatigue Stress manuals and tools.