Stress Engineer - Repairs

Stress Engineer - Repairs

Location: Bristol , Avon Salary: Unspecified Date posted: 26/04/2012 16:04 Job type:Permanent Company: EADS Contact: Sorry, no contact available Ref: Totaljobs/EADS_48743_EN Job ID: 53436648

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EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2009, the Group - comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter - generated revenues of 42.8 billion and employed a workforce of more than 119,000.

Stress Engineer - Repairs

Assignment / Location: Airbus Filton
Target group: Professional staff - engineer
Functional Area / Specilalities: ENGINEERING / Structures, mechanical & dynamic systems
Work Contract Type: Permanent contract

Working Time: Full time
Education: Degree up to 3 Years
Engineering / Aerospace Engineering

Airbus, an EADS Company headquartered in Toulouse, France, is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats.

Airbus in the UK is responsible for the design, manufacture and assembly of all wings for the Airbus family of aircraft. Airbus in the UK has a workforce of around 12,000 people based at two sites; Broughton in Flintshire, North Wales and Filton in Bristol. Broughton has 6,500 employees and at Filton there are 5,500. More than 400 UK companies supply to Airbus and 100,000 jobs in the UK are secured by Airbus work.

Stress Engineer - Repairs
Reference Code: 10125841 UE EN TJ 6

Description of the job
A vacancy has arisen at Airbus UK for a Stress Engineer to work within the Wing and Pylon Customer Services based on the Filton site (Bristol) The successful candidate will work in conjunction with the other members of the multi-disciplinary repair team. It will be your responsibility to ensure the customer services and product organisations are supported by creating and maintaining repair solutions, to ensure all repair activities are completed within time scales to meet customer requirements.

You will be carrying out stress analysis on structural damage reported on the Airbus family of aircraft. The structure covered is mainly the metallic wingbox and secondary composite panels on Wide Body (A300 / A310), Single Aisle (A318 / A319 / A320 / A321) and Long Range (A330 / A340 / A3456) but also includes the composite spoilers and ailerons on the Single Aisle aircraft. The damage to be assessed ranges from simple corrosion blend outs and bolt oversizing, to major structural repair involving splicing in of replacement components.

The work will involve liaison with Fatigue & Damage Tolerance, Design and other appropriate Airbus departments in Toulouse and Filton, to come up with optimum design solutions for the airline customer and to define maintenance programs.

The role will also require the successful applicant to take responsibility for individual tasks such as leading major incidents and large damage repair. This will entail project, resource, and budget planning.

Tasks
As the successful candidate your principle tasks will include:
- Working within the team in order to ensure that methods, assumptions, data and procedures reflect on-going developments;
- Leading a small team (as required) to support major incidents and larger repair tasks on both a technical and personal management basis;
- Supporting the team in order to adhere to short timescales required for query answers;
- Carrying out static stressing calculations to assess design solutions using standard hand and computer methods;
- Int errogate drawing systems, raising and co-ordination of documentation;
- Supporting on-going local improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods and process improvements;
- Providing a platform for the continued and future development of the Repair Stress Team;
- Identifying areas where technical processes and procedures are lacking and develop new methods and tools for improvement.

Your skills
As the successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

- A HNC/HND/Degree qualification and experience of working in a Stress position in an engineering environment;
- Static analysis of aircraft structures using a broad range of standard hand and computer methods prefered
- An understanding of the fundamental method of analysis for static stressing and an ability to develop these methods;
- Be conversant with the technical requirements for designing repairs;
- The ability to understand budget responsibilities for the team;
- PC skills and a good working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint and standard tools such as MathCAD, Unix, Nastran/Patran etc;
- Signatory, or the capability of achieving this within twelve months;
- Good interpersonal, team leadership and communication skills;
- The ability to translate customer requirements into operational deliverables and prioritise.

Work Experience
Confirmed (3+ to 5 years of experience)

Start Date (earliest)
2012-05-31

Contact
Applications should be made via the EADS website. All applications are to be made on-line no later than the closing date.

NB: all roles within the EADS group are advertised for a minimum of two weeks to ensure maximum visibility to potential candidates. However, if a successful candidate is found before the advert expires the role will be closed. We would therefore advise any candidate to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

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For internal use only: this position has been banded AP Level.
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