Senior Stress Engineer

ALTEN; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

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Company Description

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Job Description

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Stress Engineer, you will join our team in Glasgow to support our activities within the aerospace sector and play a critical role in ensuring the structural integrity and airworthiness of major aircraft components. Your work will support the full lifecycle of complex aerostructures, from initial concept design through to certification and production.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Ensure the structural integrity of all projects, delivering approved documentation on time and within budget.
• Supervise engineers and contractors to meet customer expectations and regulatory compliance (CAA, EASA, FAA).
• Develop and implement analysis methods, ensuring adherence to Type Approvals and industry standards.
• Review and approve stress analyses, guaranteeing compliance with safety and environmental standards.
• Define project structural analysis requirements, liaising directly with customers to agree on compliance methods.
• Manage resource schedules, allocate work packages, and oversee subcontractor selection.
• Monitor project execution, ensuring timely delivery and budget adherence.

Who are we looking for?

You are...

• Passionate about engineering
• result-oriented
• proactive

Qualifications

Experience, skills and qualifications required:

• Strong project management experience, with the ability to oversee multiple workstreams.
• Expertise in structural analysis, stress calculations, and compliance requirements.
• Proficiency in FEA tools (e.g., Nastran, Patran, HyperMesh).
• Experience working with aerospace, defence, or automotive design and certification processes.
• Ability to plan and conduct engineering training, ensuring the team remains highly skilled.
• Holder of signatory approval (preferred).

Additional Information

Why join us?

We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently.

Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering, and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs, mentoring programs, internal universities, and more, we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities.

We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies.

We prioritise your career development with personalised support plans tailored to your own aspirations. We're here to empower you and help you reach your full potential.

Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow, today!

In short you get:

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
• A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with Premium Customers
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• A competitive salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Cycle-to-work Scheme among many additional benefits
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)