Landing Gear Structural Analysis Engineer

Guidant Global; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidant Global is recruiting on behalf of Airbus for a Landing Gear Structural Analysis Engineer in Bristol. The role focuses on static and fatigue analysis of Nose Landing Gear, supporting ground manoeuvre effects and fatigue life assessment within Airbus programmes.

You will work with Airbus Stress and Loads teams, manage supplier interactions, and deliver technical reports while coordinating across multidisciplinary groups. Contract to June 2027 with extension potential.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in static stress analysis and fatigue/damage tolerance engineering.
• Knowledge of landing gear structures, fatigue analysis and airworthiness limitations.
• Understanding fatigue loads, spectra, damage and life-limit calculations.
• Experience researching technical documents and engineering archives.
• Strong technical report-writing and documentation skills.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate activity across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Relevant experience preferred over specific qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Research archives to identify towing cases with operating frequencies and weights.
• Analyse fleet usage and compare with maintenance manual limits.
• Redefine pre-flight and post-flight operations for fatigue impact analysis.
• Provide preliminary impact assessments for supplier discussions.
• Deliver fatigue loads, spectra, damage and life data for evaluations.
• Serve as the main interface between landing gear suppliers and Airbus teams.
• Coordinate projects from concept to delivery within time and budget constraints.
• Produce technical reports and internal memoranda for stakeholders.
• Provide regular progress updates to cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with Stress, Loads, Publications and Customer Services teams.
• Contribute to new ground manoeuvres for maintenance documentation.
• Balance multiple priorities on advanced landing gear fatigue projects.
• Gain exposure to vendor liaison and cross-functional coordination.

Skills

Static stress analysis

Fatigue & damage tolerance

Landing gear structures

Fatigue loads & life-limit

Technical report-writing

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Archive research & document review

Job description

Use your structural analysis expertise to help shape how Airbus commercial aircraft are operated and maintained. Guidant Global is recruiting a Landing Gear Structural Analysis Engineer on behalf of Airbus. This is an exciting opportunity to support continuous product development and engineering improvements across Airbus commercial aircraft programmes. You will evaluate aircraft fleet operations, assess the effect of ground manoeuvres on Nose Landing Gear fatigue life and help establish updated aircraft towing allowances. Working with the Airbus Stress Team, Loads Team, Chief Engineer, Customer Services and landing gear suppliers, you will take improvement projects from initial analysis through to delivery. The role offers broad technical exposure across the Airbus engineering environment, with opportunities to develop your project coordination, supplier management and cross-functional stakeholder skills.

What You'll Be Doing

• Research engineering archives to identify previously assessed towing cases, including operating frequencies, aircraft weights and evaluation methods.
• Analyse current aircraft usage through fleet data platforms and compare it against Aircraft Maintenance Manual limitations.
• Redefine and reanalyse pre-flight and post-flight aircraft operations, assessing their impact on Nose Landing Gear fatigue life.
• Complete preliminary impact assessments to support technical discussions with landing gear suppliers.
• Provide fatigue loads, spectra, damage and occurrence data for supplier-level evaluations.
• Act as the principal interface between landing gear suppliers and relevant Airbus teams.
• Coordinate engineering projects from concept through to delivery, managing time, budget and quality requirements.
• Produce clear technical reports and internal engineering memoranda.
• Provide regular progress updates to stakeholders across the business.
• Work collaboratively with teams including Stress, Loads, Technical Publications and Customer Services.
• Deliver technical information covering new ground manoeuvres for incorporation into aircraft maintenance documentation.
• Balance multiple technical priorities within a complex engineering environment., Work on technically challenging landing gear and aircraft fatigue-life projects.
• Gain exposure to specialist engineering, technical publications, customer services and supplier teams.
• Develop your experience in project delivery, vendor liaison and cross-functional coordination.

Work a 4.5-day, 35-hour week, with hours agreed between 7.00 am and 7.00 pm at the discretion of the business.

Join a new position with a contract running until June 2027 and the possibility of extension.

Essential

• Strong experience in both static stress analysis and fatigue and damage tolerance engineering.
• Knowledge of landing gear structures, fatigue analysis and Airworthiness Limitations.
• Practical understanding of fatigue loads, spectra, damage and life-limit calculations.
• Experience researching technical documents and engineering archives.
• Strong technical report-writing skills.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate activity across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Relevant experience is more important than holding a specific qualification.

Desirable

• Previous Airbus Landing Gear experience.
• Experience gained within Airbus or an Airbus supplier.
• Background as a Stress Engineer, Structural Analysis Engineer or Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer.