Stress Engineer

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited; Cwmbran; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company is seeking a Stress Engineer to provide analytical support in structural and occupant injury simulations. The role is crucial for ensuring that seating products meet safety standards while being lightweight and durable. Candidates should have experience in aerospace structures, particularly in seat designs, and a deep understanding of various material behaviors and regulatory requirements. This position offers a dynamic work arrangement split between remote work and on-site collaboration.

Benefits

185 hours holiday plus statutory bank holidays

Personal pension scheme with contributions

Death in service life insurance

Qualifications

• Experience with aircraft seat structures.
• Knowledge of aerospace regulations FAR/CS 25-561.
• Understanding of materials and their behavior.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical support in structural and occupant injury simulation.
• Collaborate with Design, Certification, and Production teams.
• Ensure seating products are lightweight, durable, and safe.

Skills

Part and assembly meshing

Model setup in Altair Hyperworks

Use of aerospace standard calculations

Technical report writing

Direct communication with departments

Multi-body dynamic analysis

Knowledge of fatigue and damage tolerance

Tools

Altair Hyperworks

MSC Nastran

Job description

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Safran Engineering Services is looking for a Stress Engineer to join our team at our customer in Cwmbran.

The job involves analytical support in structural and occupant injury simulation, working closely with other functions such as Design, Certification, and Production to ensure that seating products are lightweight, durable, and safe throughout their working life.

The role will be based in the Cwmbran area and will involve a combination of working from home and at the customer site. The expected work arrangement is 3 days on-site and 2 days remote.

Requirements

We need an experienced stress engineer with the following skillsets:

• Part and assembly meshing, model setup, and analysis in Altair Hyperworks (Hypermesh, Optistruct, Hyperview) and MSC Nastran;
• FE checking and validation;
• Use, authoring, and checking of aerospace standard classical calculations;
• English language technical report writing & presentation skills;
• Technical, direct communication with internal departments such as Design, Certification, and Production;
• Multi-body dynamic analysis and/or non-linear explicit FE analysis (Radioss);
• Knowledge of fatigue and damage tolerance;
• Experience with aircraft seat structures;
• Occupant injury criteria.

Good understanding of:

• Loading requirements, limit and ultimate, dynamic and static occupant injury requirements;
• Metallic, non-metallic, and composite materials and their behaviour;
• Weight requirements and identification of surplus material - weight optimisation;
• Damage mechanisms including plasticity and instability, and imperfections in production and build quality;
• Aerospace regulations FAR/CS 25-561, EASA Part 21 J, ARP 5526, and airframer specifications.

Additional benefits include:

• 185 hours holiday per year plus statutory bank holidays;
• Personal pension scheme with 5% employee and 8% employer contributions, plus salary sacrifice;
• Death in service life insurance covering up to 4x annual basic salary in the event of death in service.