FDT Engineer 5

Fatigue and Damage tolerance experience required on primary and secondary airframe metallic structure

Position Purpose:

Works on engineering projects containing critical problems, the solution of which requires major technological advances and extensive related development

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for an entire engineering project of major complexity within an established scope
• Makes technical decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative and have an important impact on extensive engineering activities
• Applies advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts based on broad expertise or unique specialized knowledge
• Leads the development of innovative principles and ideas
• Acts independently to determine improved methods and/or procedures to optimize technical product, cost, and schedule requirements
• Works under consultative direction; uses independent judgment to accomplish objectives
• Develops standards and guides for diverse engineering activities
• Conceives and plans investigation of broad areas of importance for which engineering precedents are lacking in areas critical to the program

Strong background in:

• Classic Stress Analysis
• Splice Analysis
• Fatigue Spectrum Development/Generation
• Kt evaluation
• Fatigue Analysis
• Damage Tolerance Analysis
• Experience with SmarTeam & Catia V5 to support stress analysis and drawing release.
• Ability to write and review technical documents and reports.
• Experience with GAC F&DT methods and tools is preferred. Experience with Patran/Nastran, Abaqus, and StressCheck is preferred.
• Experience with VBA & Python is preferred.
• Testing experience including correlation of test results to analysis, determining the root cause of any failures, and identifying required corrective action, is preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or related curriculum applicable to the respective job position required or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• 13 years of specific technical discipline or 15 years of broad eng experience in several technical disciplines with a Bachelor's.
• Experience credit considered for related adv degrees limited to 2 yrs for Masters and 4 yrs for PhD in fields applicable to this job.