Lead Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer
Filton, Bristol, Avon, South West
£38,000 plus other benefits
Salary guideline range
Colbern Limited is a specialist recruitment agency and we are currently recruiting for our client based in Bristol for a permanent Lead Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer - based at their Bristol site.
Candidates will require experience within an aerospace industry setting.
The Lead Fatuque and Damage Tolerance Engineer will be:-
The job involves the analysis of aircraft structure using the standard fatigue and crack growth methods to develop design solutions within the project teams.
The work will involve liaison with Static Stress, Design and appropriate departments in Toulouse to come up with optimum design solutions for the airline customer and to define maintenance programs.
The engineer will carry out fatigue, crack growth and residual strength calculations to assess design solutions using standard hand and computer methods.
The engineer will be expected to liase with the Methods and Data group in order to ensure that methods, assumptions, data and procedures reflect on-going developments.
The Engineer will also be expected to support on-going local improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods and process improvements.
Skills and Experience
Strong experience working as an engineer, preferably in the aircraft industry, involved in fatigue and crack growth analysis of metallic structures using a broad range of standard hand and computer methods is desired.
In addition, an understanding of the fundamental method of analysis for fatigue and crack growth and an ability to develop these methods would be expected. Engineers would also be expected to have an ability to assess structural analysis problems.
Some knowledge of the application of FE analysis and an understanding of aircraft production methods and processes would be beneficial.
Experience of PC and mainframe computer systems would be expected.
A team player with a high regard for internal and external customers, whilst maintaining aircraft integrity as the over-riding principle is expected.
In addition, an ability to lead a team of engineers would be expected.
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