Lead Stress Engineer

Lead Stress Engineer

Published 07.12.2024

Company: Safran Seats
Job field: Mechanics
Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom
Contract type: Permanent
Contract duration: Full-time

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award-winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality, and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specializes solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide-body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

The purpose of this role is to lead a Programme Focused Stress Team, Evaluation Cost, Planning, and Task Allocation. Reviewing, Evaluating and Maintaining technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

1. Required working knowledge of Aerospace regulations FAR/CS 25-561, EASA Part 21 J, ARP 5526, and Airframer specifications.
2. Be familiar with all aspects of Aerospace engineering techniques.
3. Be able to thoroughly plan and manage all stress activities for a specific program.
4. Manage a team of highly technically trained stress engineers to ensure tasks are completed to requirements, of time, cost, and quality.
5. In-depth working knowledge of aerospace industry standard stress analysis methods covering both hand calculations, linear/non-linear implicit FE analysis and/or multi-body dynamic analysis and/or non-linear explicit FE analysis methods.
6. Ensure that the risk of a certification test failure is managed effectively and minimized with the use of appropriate analytical methods and judgement.
7. Review and approve hand calculations, linear static, non-linear, crash, multi-body dynamic and optimization FE models for seating products to support the design and certification process, plus the in-service life of the product.
8. Review and approve stress and structural documentation to submit for internal/external customers and regulatory approval.
9. Review and approve drawings, designs, concessions, and repairs with respect to stress.
10. Support the Design team in ensuring that products meet cost and weight targets.
11. Where structural issues are identified ensure appropriate improvements have been recommended and alternate solutions assessed ensuring the optimum solution is identified.
12. Leading/driving root cause analysis (e.g. 8D/Ishikawa).

Job Requirements

Minimum - 2:1 Bachelors (Honours) degree or equivalent in Mechanical/Aerospace/Structural Engineering.
Preferably - MEng or PhD with specialism in FEA, simulation, dynamics, materials and/or structures. Degree accredited with IMechE. CEng status.
10 years+ working in Aerospace or comparable industry.
Experience of working to industry standards and codes. Knowledge of Part 25 (EASA/FAA) and Boeing / Airbus specifications. Knowledge of ACs, ARPs, and Aerospace Standards.
Proficient in root cause analysis (4D/8D/Ishikawa).

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!

As a valued member of our team, these are just a few of the benefits you'll receive:
• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
• Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts and access to private healthcare
• Career Progression opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
• Family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave and flexible working
• Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement
• STEM engagement with schools, colleges and universities and Charitable activities for all

Please apply and submit your CV today! Once your CV has been reviewed, we will contact you with the next stages.

Specificity of the job

Occasional travel nationally, but rarely internationally.