Stress Engineer

Job Title: Stress Analyst

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Duration: 12 Months Contract

Pay Rate: $69.76/hr

Note: Candidates who can work on W2 bases without any sponsorship are encouraged to apply

Job Description:

• As a Contingent Structural Analysis Engineer for you all perform a range of system structural assessments across the full product lifecycle, including new design concepts through to in-service operations.
• You will also bring forward innovative analytical and experimental solutions for customer issues to meet whole product mechanical integrity requirements, including static, transient, and dynamic loads and responses.
• Perform system level structural assessments, such as Whole Engine Modeling, static and dynamic analysis
• Experimental test planning and interpretation, such as correlation of simulation to experimental data
• Facilitate teamwork between many disciplines (i.e. - manufacturing, quality, engineering, product support, etc.).
• Seeking some people with some mid-range to support some of the other junior personnel.
• Stress analysts with a minimum of 5 years experience in ANSYS, workbench and APDL preferred.
• One of the two preferred to have thin walled aerospace structures experience
• Gas Turbine experience
• Steady and modal analysis experience
• Crack prop experience
• Testing experience, Strain Gauge Placement/Reading/Postprocessing would be a nice bonus
• Communicate technical and business results via reports and presentations to senior engineers both within and external.
• Participate in technical reviews, Product Safety Reviews, Technical Life Reviews and Customer Reviews.
• Take an active role in continual improvement of our engineering methods and processes

Basic Qualifications:

• An Associates degree in Engineering with 4 years of experience or Bachelors degree in Engineering with 2 years of related experience or Masters degree in Engineering or JD/PhD
• Previous experience building and running models for static and dynamic structural analysis.
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) codes such as Nastran, Ansys, Dyna3D, NX, and internal codes.
• Exposure to experimental testing and data interpretation, in particular for vibrating structures
• Ability to quickly learn mechanical integrity topics, such as Whole Engine Modeling, rotor dynamics and extreme event assessments (e.g. bird strike, fan blade off, etc.)
• Programming skills such as Matlab, Python, Fortan, Java, C, C and an interest in automating or scripting analysis tasks.
• Ability to plan and coordinate assigned work with other groups and drive to finish assigned tasks on schedule.