Lead, Structural Engineering - Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
Waco, Texas
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Job Title: Lead, Structural Engineering - Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
Job Code: 17002
Job Location: Waco, TX
Schedule: 9/80
Job Description:
The Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer will be responsible for performing structural fatigue and damage tolerance analysis of aircraft modifications, including design support, and preparation of technical documentation necessary to ensure airworthiness. This includes identification of critical load paths in primary aircraft structure resulting from applied and induced operational loads, as well as the determining the local stress concentrations, internal fastener load distributions, operational usage environments and design allowables. Additional responsibilities include development of tailored mission profiles and usage spectra for modified aircraft for use in calculation of service life.
Essential Functions:
- Fatigue analysis of aircraft structures
- Crack growth analysis of aircraft structures
- Development of specific mission profiles and usage spectrum for modified aircraft
- Determination of inspection intervals for delivered aircraft
- Design support and drawing review
Qualifications:
- BSME, BSAE, BSCE and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree (MSME, MSAE ) and a minimum of 7 years of prior aircraft structural dynamics related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Must be able to generate free body diagrams, determine reaction forces, calculate internal load distributions, local stress concentrations, and operational usage environments
- Must be able to travel as necessary.
- Must be able to obtain a SECRET security clearance.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, and have general computer knowledge.
- Must be able to work any shift, weekends, and overtime as required.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to conduct analyses and support project tasking with limited oversight and direction
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Experience with predicting crack initiation lives and running standard crack growth programs; e.g., AFGROW, NASGRO
- Working knowledge of one programming language
- CAD or analysis (FEA) tools exposure, and/or experience in mechanical design or analysis structures and mechanisms
- Working knowledge of both military (Mil Standard) and civilian (14 CFRs) certification regulations and generating substantiation data to demonstrate compliance
- Familiarity with transducer instrumentation, data collection and or automation and software programming for numerical analysis
- Working knowledge on how to develop the Airworthiness Limitations section of the Instructions for Continued Airworthiness for a structural modification
- Experience with standard Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) methods and corresponding crack growth detectable flaw sizes
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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