Senior Mechanical Engineer - Structural Analysis

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Location:

Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Role Type:
Permanent – Full Time

Package: £47,000 -£53,250 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role : SF20445

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as an Engineer
- Structural Analysis at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

As an Engineer
- Structural Analysis, you’ll support our Structural Analysis and Optimisation capability. The Structural Analysis team uses advanced finite element‑based structural analysis codes supported by classical analytical methods to simulate the response of complex, and often novel, materials and structures in challenging, real‑world environments.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll support projects across the whole of QinetiQ and for customers in most technical domains, including air, maritime, weapons, land and space. Activities range from conventional stress analysis services through to the development and application of novel simulation methods to develop products, de‑risk high‑value test activities, inform safety cases and evaluate scenarios that would not be feasible to test.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Structural analysis of large, complex assemblies to support the development of major military products
• Stress analysis of aircraft modifications and trials installations, for military aircraft and the QinetiQ fleet
• Assessment of collisions between small ‘drones’ and crewed aircraft, using a combination of validated simulation methods and full‑scale testing
• Development and validation of simulation methods to evaluate the effect of emerging directed energy laser weapons on target structures
• Supporting the development of novel technologies for the future UK aircraft
• De‑risking the development of large composite structures for major UK maritime programmes

Essential experience of the Engineer
- Structural Analysis:

• Experienced structural analyst, with strong analytical and numerical skills
• Experience in finite element modelling methods, using ABAQUS
• Ability to deliver projects that include high levels of novel research and methods development as well as undertaking traditional engineering assessments and design‑support activities
• Knowledge of adjacent technical disciplines such as design, manufacturing, materials, aerodynamics/hydrodynamics
• Able to write quality technical reports and presentations
• The team operates across multiple technical domains so technical capability is more important than domain experience. However, experience in aerospace, space or weapons domains would be beneficial

Essential qualifications for the Engineer
- Structural Analysis:

• Meets the requirements of a Chartered Engineer (or working towards this)
• Finite element analysis using the Hyperworks suite of products (desirable)

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected (mainly Boscombe Down). Flexible working and compressed hours are available.

Farnborough At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state‑of‑the‑art facility, with high‑energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation.

Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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