Stress Engineer

Summary
This position is responsible for supporting Lead Engineers, Senior level Engineers and Engineer Managers in the research, design and structural substantiation of the mechanical/payloads/systems and structures design within the Jamco Technical Services Engineering departments utilizing established modeling and analysis standards (such as Bruhn, Niu, BDM, JA Stress Manuals, etc.). The Stress Engineer 5 will support design and structural substantiation of aircraft engineering packages based on customer and OEM requirements for production, retrofit applications and product development.

Eligible to become a JA ODA UME for structures.

FLSA Status: Exempt
Sign-On Bonus: $5,000.00

This job may have some supervisory responsibilities when acting in the role of Lead Engineer and as delegated by the Functional Manager.

• Work independently, review/analyze basic mechanical/structural/payloads/systems based on defined requirements using approved processes and tools, with extensive knowledge and experiences with solid understandings in
  • Aircraft monument: FEM, interface load report, substantiation plan, stress analysis, partial static test plan and report, full scale static test plan and report, wind milling analysis
  • Aircraft seating system: FEM, stress analysis, interface load report, dynamic test plan and report, static test plan and report, dynamic simulations
  • Airframe: airframe (fuselage) stress analysis, aircraft fatigue and damage tolerances
  • Materials:
    Allowables test plan and report, metallic and composite material properties, material and process specification
  • Regulation and Certification: FAR, CS, SAE, TSO, ACs
• Perform engineering projects scope review, project scheduling and project RFQ commitment along with resources planning and assignments.
• Perform ODA UME design review/approval in accordance with related delegation/authorization.
• Provide junior level (Stress Engineers levels 1, 2 and
  3) mentoring and performance management input to Functional Manager.
• Perform engineering design approvals (design/approval authority) and task scheduling (such as detailed schedule of a given task per program requirements).
• Perform engineering design analysis (such as preliminary Stress analysis, Kinematics and Dynamic Analysis), design validation (such as validate analysis models against test data) and task scope (such as work scope validation).
• Assigned tasks include but not limited to: assemblies/components structural review/analysis, mechanical/structural/payloads/systems installations review/analysis, specifications review (such as materials specifications and manufacturing process specifications), basic test plans/reports (such as tie-rods tension/compression testing) and associated testing support as needed.
• Participates in teams to support the development of designs. Supports the documentation of design implementation.
• Obtain, interpret, and analyze OEM airplane install drawings using approved processes and tools.
• Provides technical, design and informational support for airplane modifications (including full-time on-site modification support and on-call home-team support), manufacturing support and/or in-service issues.
• Troubleshoots basic mechanical/structural/payloads/systems problems associated with structural requirements.
• Actively support engineering department goals and initiatives.
• Coordinate with other departments as necessary.
• Utilize internal analysis/drawing/document standards per customer or regulatory agency requirements.
• Fast produce error-free engineering documents per engineering document standard.
• Some domestic or international travel may be required.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to the established department standards (i.e. meet published metrics). The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

All external hiring is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen and a criminal background check.

• Candidate must have experience in aircraft seats analysis and substantiation, including seats static and dynamic testing.
• Candidate will have 6+ years of relevant experience in aircraft seats, aircraft monument and airframe analysis and substantiation. Hands‑on experience in static and dynamic testing, including creating test plans, test reports and additional test supporting stress documents.
• BS degree Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related Engineering field and 8 years or more of relevant working experience. (MS degree may be required as deemed necessary by Functional Manager)

Moderate travel within the U.S. and abroad may be required to support JAMCO America programs.

• Design:
  Able to read and understand Computer Aided Design (CAD) designs, drawings and…