Sr Structural Engineer – Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Lead

Overview

The ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance), Aviation, and Security (IAS) business area is a leader in ISR and aviation, a leading prime for manned and unmanned aircraft systems, and an integrator for innovative, high‑performance ISR and aviation systems. Its end‑to‑end C4

ISR capabilities encompass design, integration, test, certification, ground/flight training and complete logistics support. IAS tailors solutions to customer cost, performance, and schedule requirements and designs to consistently exceed expectations – with an unrivaled record of on‑time and on (or under) budget deliveries. SNC has led thoughtful and disruptive change in the aerospace and defense industry for the past 60 years and now brings that tenacity to the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) mission.

Join the SNC‑led SAOC team and be part of exciting and meaningful work to modernize and deliver the next‑generation SAOC aircraft trusted by the President, Secretary of Defense and Chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ensure continued critical command, control and communication during national emergencies. Learn more about NC3 and SAOC here. If you like solving problems and working with complex materials and systems, join our amazing team!

As a Structural Engineer, you will use your skills and expertise to design, evaluate, and certify our cutting edge products and services. You will examine complex metallic structures and systems. Your technical duties involve analysis and development of fatigue and damage tolerance analysis and certification.

• Perform structural fatigue and damage tolerance analysis of aircraft modifications, including preparation of technical documentation required for airworthiness
• Develop mission profiles and usage spectrums for use in service life analysis
• Lead a team of F&DT engineers and serve as an expert for fatigue and fracture
• Possesses expertise in industry best practices for analyzing and designing airframe primary structures and load paths
• Collaborates with customers and regulatory agencies to establish and uphold certification processes that ensure compliance with requirements
• Skilled in creating free body diagrams, calculating reaction forces, analyzing internal load distributions, identifying local stress concentrations, and evaluating operational usage environments
• Developing and disseminating processes, methods, and tools specifically for fatigue and damage tolerance analysis
• Guiding and mentoring colleagues
• Working to certify analysis methods and structures of various aircraft
• Coordinate with certification team and certification authorities to architect program F&DT plan, ultimately ending in FAA (or other authority, i.e. USAF, NAVAIR, etc) certified products

• Bachelor s of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering or other related discipline and typically 10 or more years of relevant experience
• Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
• Thorough understanding of engineering principles and practices
• Advanced knowledge of Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Analyses - Miner's Rule
• Experience performing fatigue and damage tolerance analysis utilizing tools such as NASGRO or AFGROW
• Ability to author substantiation reports
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary design and development teams
• Background in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

• Ability to perform classical analysis using industry standard hand calculation methods
• Knowledge of industry-standard mechanical design principles, to include, but not limited to model-based definition, material hardware selection, manufacturing and production processes
• Author process development documents

At Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) we deliver customer-focused technology and best‑of‑breed integrations in the aerospace and defense sectors. SNC has been honored as one of the most innovative U.S. companies in space, a Tier One Superior Supplier for the U.S. Air Force, and as one of America’s fastest‑growing companies. Learn more about SNC.

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