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Job Title: Manager, Structural Engineering - Stress Analysis  *$15,000 Sign On Bonus*
Job Code: 46310
Job Location: Waco, TX (Onsite)
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a Stress Analysis Manager for our onsite aircraft modification facility in Waco, TX. The Stress Analysis Manager reports to the Senior Manager of Flight Sciences Engineering and oversees a team of approximately 8 to 12 engineers responsible for analysis, modeling, and testing to ensure compliance with airworthiness structural requirements, ensuring safety of flight, and meeting program cost and schedule targets.  Candidate must be experienced in aircraft stress analysis, and familiar with FAA and Military Airworthiness Requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for the technical work product of the Stress Analysis Group, as well as work assignments, manpower planning, project and engineering status, project bid support, employee training, mentorship and coaching of team members,
• Establish annual group and individual goals, preparing and giving out performance reviews, and management of overhead budgets.
• Ensure compliance to company processes relating to structural analysis and reporting.
• Set the highest ethical standards for self and direct reports, commits to Continuous Improvement initiatives, and drives positive change throughout the group.
• Planning, scheduling, and budgeting tasks for the Stress Analysis Team.
• Technical oversight of a Stress Analysis Group supporting one of the L3Harris MMG Division business areas.
• Assisting Senior Manager of Flight Sciences Engineering with monthly staffing and manpower planning.
• Providing regular project status updates for supported programs.
• Annual goal planning and performance evaluations for direct report employees.
• Training, teaching, mentorship, and coaching of Stress Analysis Group members.
• Willingness and ability to work any shift, weekends, and overtime as required.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 7% as required.
• Ability to obtain a US Secret security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering with 9 years prior aircraft structural analysis experience, Graduate Degree with 7 years prior aircraft structural analysis experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active US Secret security clearance.
• Strong background in Aircraft Stress Analysis, with a combination of primary airframe and secondary structures.
• Mastery of classical aircraft engineering analysis methodology, and finite-element modeling (combination of course-mesh “internal loads models” and fine-mesh “stress models”).
• Familiarity with NASTRAN Finite-Element solver, and either FEMAP or PATRAN pre/post-processor software.
• Experience working in inter-disciplinary engineering environments, providing support to design engineering, and working alongside other flight sciences engineers (specialized fields such as fatigue and damage tolerance, loads and dynamics, aerodynamics, thermal and fluids analysis, and mass properties).
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering groups (examples: Stress Analysis Lead, Project Lead, or Project Engineering).
• Prior experience as a Stress Analysis Group Manager, or in other Engineering Manager roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering groups (examples: Stress Analysis Lead, Project Lead, or Project Engineering).
• Experience in stress analysis of composite materials.
• Experience in structural testing.
• Experience in adjacent disciplines such as Fatigue and Damage Tolerance, External Loads Development, or Structural Dynamics.
• Skills in analysis automation development, either through use of commonly available software, or programming in languages such as VBA, Python, etc.
• Familiarity with the use of AI tools in engineering analysis, or for engineering management tasking.

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