Strength Analyst Lead 4 - Vulcan Development

Job Overview & Responsibilities

As a Structural Analysis Team Lead who has ownership over technical scope assigned to the team, job responsibilities include the following:

• Candidate will lead a team of analysts through Vulcan Development activities, including Centaur V on SLS in support of Artemis and Upper Stage Advancement long-duration capabilities
• Candidate will lead the team in advanced strength, fatigue and fracture analyses of structural components, including nonlinear analyses
• Candidate will facilitate work scope planning, prioritization, execution, and issue resolution and communicate status to program leaders
• Candidate will create advanced analysis models, perform hand calculations, and understand analysis best practices to provide strength inputs and recommendations for new designs and installations
• Candidate will review and approve 3D engineering layouts, 3D models, designs/drawings, and 2D drawing changes for a variety of propulsion, fluid system, and mechanical system components
• Candidate will make engineering design recommendations with consideration of thermal, mechanical, and pressure loading using appropriate material properties, configurations, safety factors, etc.
• Candidate will document analysis results in strength reports
• Candidate will drive internal peer reviews, tabletop reviews, and formal design reviews as needed
• Candidate will support fast-paced design/analysis cycles and evaluate hardware nonconformances to support production activities
• Candidate must be able to work independently and coordinate their efforts across functional and product teams
• Candidate will assist in developing the team’s processes and capabilities as well as mentor junior engineers
• Candidate will assist the team in creating analysis automation tools   

• Candidate will need familiarity with the following tools/software:
  • Nastran (static, modal, dynamic and nonlinear analysis solutions) 
  • Femap pre-/post-processor
  • NX CAD/Simulation 
  • NASGRO fracture mechanics tool 
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) 
  • Unix/Linux-mainframe-based analysis tools 
  • Matlab
  • Abaqus
  • Jira

Required Education

Bachelor

Required Years of Experience

Minimum of 6 years of related work experience

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field from an accredited college or university
• Ability to resolve technical issues, leveraging all available analysis tools and methodologies
• Ability to make design recommendations based on first-order analysis results and engineering judgement/experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and Agile tools, including Jira
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Detailed understanding of materials and material properties
• Advanced experience with structural analysis (tanks, adapters, brackets)
• Advanced experience analysis of propulsion hardware (tubing, ducting, flex joints)
• Understanding of fatigue/fracture analysis methodology and the ability to develop tools that facilitate this analysis
• Understanding of bolted joint analysis and modeling and the ability to develop tools that facilitate this analysis
• Understanding of GD&T standards and principles
• Understanding of analysis best practices and underlying assumptions, along with the ability to establish these standards for the team
• Understanding of basic hand calculations
• Experience resolving hardware nonconformances

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as technical lead in an aerospace development program
• Experience running/creating analysis automation and pre- and post-processing scripts using the following tools:
  •  Unix, Matlab, Python, Excel
• Experience developing tools for analyzing propulsion systems including tubing, ducting, bellows, and supplier components
• Experience leading static/dynamic testing and model correlation
• Experience leading structural optimization techniques for mass savings
• Experience integrating with system-level analysis models (e.g. coupled loads models)
• Experience with NASA man-rating analysis and qualification requirements, including but not limited to NASA-STD-5019 and NASA-STD-5001
• General knowledge of fabrication methods for mechanical hardware, such as machining, welding, processing and assembly
• Familiarity with mechanical support equipment
• Familiarity with composite structural analysis
• Experience leading analysis efforts that support cross-functional teams
• Experience working development programs within the Agile framework and understanding of Agile tools, including Jira