Aerostructure Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Overview

In this role you will help shape aerospace structures by delivering safe, lightweight and manufacturable solutions. You’ll collaborate with Design, Manufacturing, Stress and Certification teams to mature structural concepts and validate them through testing and certification. You’ll balance strength, weight and cost while ensuring structural integrity across the development lifecycle. This is a hands-on senior role with impactful contributions to complex aerospace programmes in a global engineering environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Cycle & Tech Scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Life insurance & Pension Scheme
• Social atmosphere, team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Design, Manufacturing, Stress and Certification teams to develop and mature structural solutions
• Assess concepts and recommend improvements for strength, weight, manufacturability, and cost
• Review drawings and design changes for structural feasibility
• Provide technical input and judgment during design reviews and modifications
• Support development of structural test plans and execute/evaluate tests
• Compare analytical predictions with physical test results and investigate discrepancies
• Support analysis-to-test correlation to ensure models reflect structural behaviour
• Contribute to certification activities with structural evidence and justification
• Provide technical approval and engineering sign-off for structural designs and modifications
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve structural issues and drive design improvement

Key requirements

• Strong experience in structural engineering, stress analysis or aerospace design
• Understanding of structural design principles, load paths and structural integrity
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings from a structural perspective
• Knowledge of aerospace testing, validation and certification processes
• Experience supporting structural testing and correlating results with test data
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams across design, manufacturing, analysis and certification
• Strong technical communication, problem-solving and engineering decision-making skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience

• Strong technical communication
• Problem-solving
• Engineering decision-making
• Structural engineering
• Stress analysis
• Aerospace design

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