Structures Engineer

Title: Structures Engineer

Location: Fort Worth, Texas

This role will work with the client and one of our major aerospace customers, following Engineering Standard Work, to evaluate parts and ensure designs meet all structural safety margin requirements.

This is considered an onsite position, meaning the work be done full time at our customer facility in Fort Worth, TX.

Primary Responsibilities

•   Perform engineering structural analysis activities, including:

•   Stress analyses

•   Strength analyses

•   Deflection analyses

•   Fatigue analyses (LCF and HCF)

•   Vibratory analyses (modal)

•   Hand calculations

•   Use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software (ANSYS Workbench) to evaluate parts under various load conditions

•   Use CAD modeling (SolidWorks and CATIA) and drafting understanding to read and interpret part B/P for use in analyses

•   Write final structural analysis summary technical reports, summarizing the engineering analyses conducted, the final conclusions, and obtain customer approval.

•   Follow all customer required document control procedures to ensure proper data storage throughout the project

•   Work with internal stakeholders and customer engineering departments/disciplines to ensure the analyses are acceptable, and that all possible impacts are considered. Collaborate to obtain dispositions and approvals from other departments, as required.

•   Create and deliver presentations at various required gate reviews, summarizing the analysis plan, the results, and final engineering recommendations.

•   Generate templates, document lessons-learned, develop tools, and support the creation of training presentations to enable repeatable, standardized results amongst the team

•   Identify opportunities for continuous improvement to current engineering processes, tools, trainings, etc.

•   Update status reports, present project status to customers, and work with client project management to ensure productive and consistent customer communication.

•   Understand and adhere to all export control regulations.

•   Work closely with customers onsite at their facility several days per week, complying with all customer site requirements

Basic Qualifications

•   Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering

•   8 year(s) of relevant structural analysis experience

•   Experience working with FEA and CAD software

•   Outstanding communication and technical writing skills

•   Outstanding customer interfacing skills

Preferred Qualifications

•   Experience with ANSYS Workbench software

•   Experience with SolidWorks and/or CATIA software

•   Experience working in the aerospace industry

•   Experience with the engineering design process

•   An understanding of engineering services business practices

•   Exposure to project or program management

•   Experience writing or creating standard work, establishing processes, and documenting lessons learned

•   An alignment with client company values, including Being Purposeful, Ethics & Integrity, Caring, A Culture of Learning, and Results with Accountability.