Engineer (Analysis)

Job Summary

Sitting across our three business lines; Civil, Defence and Engines our East Cowes manufacturing plants established in 1901 are one of our older production sites with a workforce of cira 800 employees. Our East Cowes plants, Isle of Wight are where we design, manufacture, test and repair high performance structures and systems. We have two facilities on the Island; Falcon Yard, Ferry Road and Osborne Site, Saunders Way. Both locations employ the company’s distinct competencies in major assemblies and composite structures for the global aerospace market.

Our customer base includes Airbus, Astronics, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Cessna, Cobham, Honeywell, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce and Triumph. We are seeking to recruit an experienced Stress Engineer to support the analysis of aircraft structures.

The role will be part of a dynamic engineering team that is responsible for the Design and Production Support of various aircraft components, including winglets, nacelles, and wing moveable components for major commercial and military aircraft platforms.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and check technical solutions and compliance documentation to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints
• Identify technical problems and apply/integrate solutions
• Execute and implement methods plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant to achieve the design and programme objectives
• Support the creation of technical solutions against customer requirements as input to bids and proposals within assigned programmes/projects
• Identify and assess technical risk for own work and propose mitigations within assigned programmes/projects
• Support or generate test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance (analysis/similarity) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with certification requirements
• Develop designs compliant to cost and manufacturing requirements using appropriate techniques for design such as manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and design to cost
• Create detailed design definitions of products, including interfaces, dimensions,
• materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives
• Generate assigned project deliverables, documents, and reports according to the project signature authorizations
• Support technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews, including the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of product design
• Process documentation such as concessions and non-conformances, and provide
• technical support by implementing solutions to address non-conforming products,designs, and compliance documentation
• Perform all activities at a level of minimal supervision and support other engineers with peer-to-peer reviews
• Identify improvements and support the creation of work instructions, procedures,technical manuals, and guidelines
• Understand the qualification process of products, and prepare compliance documentation to internal, customer, and regulatory requirements, where applicable

How You'll Contribute

To help us make a difference, you’ll bring your passion and talent for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

Essential:

• Holds relevant technical qualifications in Engineering subject (Bachelor, Master or equivalent)
• Experience of conducting a variety of stress analysis types on both composite and metallic structures
• Able to perform finite element analysis
• Experience of preparing and interpreting analysis reports and certification documentation
• Experience in interpreting and processing design data and manufacturing drawings

Desirable:

• Experience with scripting in Python or similar programming language
• Experience with using CATIA to be able to interrogate design data.
• Experience of working in cross-cultural teams
• Experience in static and fatigue and damage tolerance analysis using recognised methods
• Experience of light weight aircraft structural design
• knowledge of Lean Principles
• Awareness of other engineering functions

We are looking for people who want to make a difference, talented members with the skills and passions to become the best of the future in what they do. To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate a good level of technical problem solving skills with the ability to act under own initiative in relation to the assigned tasks within defined functional procedures and
governance. You will be comfortable working within an extended team environment across different functions and locations both locally and remotely.

What We'll Offer

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary dependant on experience
• Opportunity to earn up to 15% bonus
• Hybrid working – giving you the opportunity to balance home and office working
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• Income protection
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!