Stress Engineer

Stress Engineer

Location: Bristol , Avon Salary: Unspecified Date posted: 09/06/2012 18:02 Job type:Permanent Company: EADS Contact: Sorry, no contact available Ref: Totaljobs/EADS_92306_EN Job ID: 53603862

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EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2011, the Group - comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter - generated revenues of 49.1 billion and employed a workforce of over 133,000.

Stress Engineer

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 UK- Bachelor - University
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.

We have a constant requirement for professional Engineers at all levels within the disciplines of Design, Analysis and Integration both at Systems and Component level. We would invite you to visit our website: www.airbus.com/work.

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 10,000 people based at two sites; Broughton in Flintshire, North Wales and Filton in Bristol. Broughton has 6,000 employees and at Filton there are 4,000. More than 400 UK companies supply to Airbus and 100,000 jobs in the UK are secured by Airbus work.

Stress Engineer
Reference Code: 10176535 C EN TJ 1

Description of the job
A vacancy has arisen for a Static Stress Engineer within the Wing Centre of Excellence to be based at Airbus UK on the Filton site (Bristol)
In conjunction with the other members of the multi-disciplinary Long Range team, the successful candidate will be able to attain a level of signature delegation after an appropriate level of development to enable you to carry out stress analysis on Long Range Product structural.
The structure covered is mainly the metallic wingbox and secondary composite panels on the Long Range (A330 / A340 / A3456) .

The work will involve liaising with Fatigue & Damage Tolerance, Design and other appropriate Airbus departments in Filton and other Transnational partners, such as Bremen, Toulouse, to come up with optimum design solutions for the Long Range Programme, the customer .

Tasks
As the successful candidate your principle activities will include:-

Carrying out static stressing calculations to assess design solutions by static stress calculations to assess design solutions for a range of tasks, ranging from modifications to manufacturing concessions against the Aircraft Design requirements, new product developments using standard hand and computer methods.

Other tasks will include:

Interrogating 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 Static Stress Team
Liaising with specialists to ensure fatigue and damage tolerance requirements are met.
Liaising with other functions and project to ensure stress requirements are fully integrated.
Assisting in the structural design process to help ensure optimised design quality.
Reporting critical technical issues up through functional management.
Supporting on-going continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, process and other capability improvements.

Your skills
As the successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:
HNC/HND/Degree qualification and a good understanding of working in an engineering environment.
Static analysis of aircraft structures working as an aircraft stress engineer involved in the analysis of composite and metallic structures using a broad range of standard hand and computer methods.
An understanding of the fundamental method of analysis for static stressing and an ability to develop these methods, using computer programmes and analytical methods.
Good PC skills including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Good interpersonal and communication skills
The ability to translate customer requirements into operational deliverables and prioritise accordingly.

Work Experience
Early career (2 to 3 years of experience)

Start Date (earliest)
2012-06-30

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.

We are working towards providing equal opportunities and becoming a benchmark diversity employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

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For internal use only: this position has been banded P Level.
Your Line Manager will be advised if your application is successful and leads to an interview/assessment. If you have any issues with this, please raise with your HR Business Partner upon applying.

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