Chief Stress Engineer

Denham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Advance your career in a senior role where technical stress governance meets real-world, life-saving impact. As the Chief Stress Engineer within our Mechanical Engineering group at Denham, you will act as a dedicated Technical Lead and the ultimate authority on structural integrity. From executing complex finite element analysis to signing off critical engineering documentation, your expertise ensures our safety-critical aerospace technologies are validated to the highest international standards.

Direct Impact, Global Scale. Life-Saving Mission.

At Martin-Baker, the work we do matters. We design, manufacture and support life-saving equipment used by aircrew around the world. Our products operate in demanding environments, where quality, reliability and attention to detail are critical.

We’re proud of our long history in aerospace and defence, also focused on the future. Joining Martin-Baker means becoming part of a business with a clear purpose, strong engineering capability and a long-term commitment to its people, products and customers.

Whether you work in engineering, operations, commercial, finance, supply chain or support functions, your contribution helps deliver equipment that protects lives. It is challenging work, but it is also meaningful, and with over 7,800 lives saved, it gives our people the opportunity to be part of something with real impact.

Working full-time alongside our technical specialist, you will act as a vital line of defence to ensure absolute measurement integrity across our manufacturing operations. This role offers deep day-to-day variety, substantial technical training investment, and an opportunity to shape work that has not previously been done. You will receive full 1-on-1 mentorship as well as external training to develop your skills in emerging digital metrology systems.

• Technical Governance: Oversee, execute, and formally approve complex structural stress analysis, fatigue analysis, and damage tolerance analysis across projects.
• Signatory Authority: Apply the highest professional standards as an immediate signatory for crucial engineering documentation, data approvals, and compliance verification.
• Active Project Contribution: Remain hands-on by actively contributing directly to core project stressing activities rather than only reviewing work from a distance.
• Engineering Change & Material Reviews: Provide decisive stress input into engineering change reviews and support complex material review applications.
• Failure Investigations: Lead and conduct thorough concessional and structural failure investigations, employing robust root-cause decision-making.
• Agile Problem Solving: Move quickly between unrelated technical matters at short notice, responding efficiently to changing priorities across the product lifecycle.

• Extensive Stress Analysis Expertise: Deeply established, substantial experience heavily focused on the direct analysis of aircraft structures or ancillary equipment attached to aircraft.
• Technical Mastery: Masterful expertise in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods, mathematical modelling, structural mechanics, vibration, and fatigue analysis. Familiarity with tools like Ansys Mechanical, NASTRAN, or LS-Dyna is highly advantageous.
• Credentials: A Master’s degree or BEng in aerospace structures.
• Professional Status:Chartered Engineer (CEng) status with a recognised professional body (e.g., RAeS, IMechE, IET) is essential
• Sector Focus: Proven experience within a high-integrity Aerospace or Defence environment is required; purely…