Senior Structural Engineer - FEA, Dynamics & Verification

Amtec Staffing; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amtec Staffing in Pasadena, CA seeks a Mechanical/Aerospace Structural Engineer to perform FEA and hand analyses across project phases and to size structural hardware per loading environments.

Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree and experience with MSC/NASTRAN or NX/NASTRAN, FEMAP, and familiarity with metals and composites; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or civil Engineering.
• Extensive structural analysis experience including classical hand analyses and FEA.
• Proficiency with FEA codes MSC/NASTRAN or NX/NASTRAN and FEMAP.
• Knowledge of metallic and composite structures and joint analyses.
• Understanding structural failure mechanisms and fatigue.
• TS/SCI Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Perform structural analysis (FEA and Classical Hand) for project phases from configuration studies to verification and validation.
• Analyze and size structural hardware per loading environment and materials; generate strength and stability margins.
• Make configuration and design recommendations to optimize the load path for more efficient designs.

Skills

Structural analysis (FEA & hand)

FEA methods

Load-path optimization

Fatigue & failure mechanisms

Clearance: TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or civil Engineering

Tools

MSC/NASTRAN

NX/NASTRAN

FEMAP

MATLAB

NX CAD

Teamcenter

SolidWorks

Job description

• Perform structural analysis (FEA and Classical Hand) for different phases of the project, such as configuration studies, preliminary design, detailed design, and verification and validation (static and dynamic testing).
• Responsible for analyzing and sizing the structural hardware per prescribed loading environment and material properties, and generating the structural (strength and stability) margins.
• Other responsibilities include making configuration and design recommendations to optimize the load path and thus achieving a more efficient design.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or civil Engineering
• Wide-ranging experience in structural analyses techniques including classical hand analyses and Finite Element analysis utilizing both coarse system load and detail stress FE models.
• Working knowledge of FEA codes (MSC/NASTRAN or NX/NASTRAN) and pre & post processing tools (FEMAP)
• Knowledge of metallic and composite structures, as well as bonded joint, and bolted joint analyses.
• Knowledge of structural failure mechanisms including material failure in metals and composites, instability of structural elements, and Fatigue.
• TS?SCI Clearance

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of nonlinear and dynamic response ( sinusoidal, random, time history) analyses.
• Experience with static and dynamic testing.
• Other preferred computer skills include MATLAB, NX CAD and Teamcenter, SolidWorks.