T400 Stress Engineer

Filton

2 months ago

Applications closed

Contract until early July (initially)

Shift rates from £55 per hour umbrella up to £67.60 per hour umbrella (top end for an Approver level working the night shift)

Nights

Night shift - 30% shift allowance on top of hourly rate

Monday to Thursday 8:45pm – 6:00am

Double Days (Also known as red or blue shift)

Double day shift pattern (alternating weeks)

Week of mornings – 6:00am – 1:10pm

Week of afternoons – 1:30pm – 8:40pm

20% shift uplift

About Us:

We are a team of Structural Engineers who are a mixture of technical specialists and engineering leads who are all passionate about finding technical solutions to support Wing products.

You will be operating as a Stress Engineer within our Wing Plant Engineering Team (PET) working alongside our existing stress analysts.

Key Responsibilities:

Static structural analysis, composite and metallic.
Ability to analyse and validate Metallic, Composites / Hybrids structures at component level for Static strength, F&DT and produce relevant strength margins or reserve factors according to validated and applicable methods & sizing processes.
Ability to provide stress analyses for the repair/acceptance of metallic, composites/ hybrids structures.
Ensure airworthiness requirements for aircraft structures.
Key Skills:

Ideally held T400 Concessions Approval previously
Open to candidates who don’t hold an approval but have relevant stress and / or concessions experience.
Experience with other aircrafts, military aircraft or product knowledge

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