Senior Submarine Structures Specialist; FEA

Senior Submarine Structures Specialist (FEA)

Department: Technical Capability

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Canada

Reporting To: Silvia Penkova

Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 / year

Job Title: Senior Submarine Structures Specialist (FEA)

Location: Halifax, NS, Ottawa, ON, or Victoria, BC

Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Annual Salary: $,000

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The Senior Submarine Structures Specialist (FEA) is responsible for professionally and efficiently executing work in support of client taskings for submarines.

• Provide Naval Architecture advice and support to external and internal customers.
• Manage your own technical work and evaluate its effectiveness to improve best practice.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Comply with relevant business and ethics codes of conduct.
• Undertake engineering and non-engineering activities in a way that contributes to best practice.
• Act as Technical Lead on specified projects.
• Act as Technical Assurer on specified projects.
• Act as Project Manager (PM) on specified projects.
• Work within the BMT Quality Management System (QMS) processes and procedures.
• Maintain your technical competency in your area(s) of specialization.
• Promotes building a positive team culture through input, feedback and participation in team building and wellness activities.

• Proven experience in the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software creating models and running analyses.

• Experienced in FEA for Pressure Hull Inelastic Collapse Assessment, including ability to define and implement a process that defines the collapse and operational depths of the pressure hull based on design standards, FEA results, uncertainty and safety factor knock-down approach.
• Familiar with the design and analysis process of submarine pressure hulls, both for existing platforms and new design.
• The ability to search for different failure modes, due to the incorporation of different construction defects, both for existing platforms and new design.
• The ability to provide clear direction on how to obtain different failure modes, under different construction defects, both for existing platforms and new design.
• The ability to calculate and reduce uncertainties using numerical and real experiments, both for existing platforms and new design.
• Familiar with submarine pressure hull structural features.
• Highly skilled in performing non-linear FEA.
• Experience using and addressing the challenges of the risk-method, and/or the arc-length method.
• Experience creating the “paper” submarine pressure hull.
• Experience implementing Verification & Validation in solid mechanics simulations.

• Familiar with fatigue assessment using design standards such as PD5500.
• Highly skilled in performing linear FEAs and stress linearization.

• Familiar with pressure hull non-resistant structures including deck, soft tanks, and foundations.
• Highly skilled in performing linear FEAs.

• Highly skilled in performing linear, modal, response spectrum and transient FEAs.
• Familiar with naval shock standards such as STANAG 4142.

• Work with Shipyards, Dockyards, Owners, Class and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) to conduct ship surveys for design and engineering changes, mid-life upgrades and vessel condition documentation.
• Maintain a program of Continuing Professional Development to sustain your technical knowledge.
• Work with Capability Manager to identify the levels of suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) required to fulfil current and projected demand.
• Work with Capability Manager to identify training or other developmental opportunities to develop SQEP within BMT.
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