Static Stress Signatory

Here at KDC, we require a Stress Signatory to be a part of our engineering team based at our Bristol site.

The successful candidate will be used to supporting fixed price work packages whilst operating as an approval signatory, or as a checker with significant experience working towards signatory.

Responsibilities include:

• Customer technical liaison to understand their requirements
• Support and input to the development of static analysis task scoping and work breakdown structures to fulfil the customer requirements as fixed price tasking.
• Highlight associated technical and commercial risks/assumptions against the scope.
• Regular interaction with internal analysis team and customer technical points of contact to ensure that tasking is progressing using the agreed methods and processes.
• Identifying and reporting any changes in approach or scope
• Checking / approval of static analysis work package deliverables; technical reports, dossiers, supporting analysis files, drawings etc to agreed budgets and timescales.
• Where required perform analysis and associated documentation.
• Liaising with KDC and customer design/systems teams to ensure integration and collaboration between stress, analysis, design and systems teams.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Significant relevant experience in aerospace or high integrity analysis roles
• Extensive experience as a Stress Engineer operating at a senior level within the aerospace industry and able to demonstrate knowledge of hands on capability of both conventional and customer specific methods.
• Track record of signatory responsibility within the aerospace industry including approval of technical deliverables.
• Analysis and approval experience of both metallic and composite aircraft structure.
• Strong awareness and understanding of the responsibilities of an Approval role and able to demonstrate a comprehensive working knowledge of aerospace standards.
• Established engineering capability and someone who can anticipate problems and plan to mitigate.