Structural Engineering, SME

Peraton•Huntsville, AL

2d•$112,000 - $179,000•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is hiring, on a part-time on-call basis, a Aviation Structural Engineering, Subject Matter Expert, at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. This role provides structural engineering support to Army Aviation customers by applying classical structural methods and advanced finite element modeling techniques to evaluate possible new design alternatives, repairs, and/or redesign efforts. The position involves performing fatigue analysis/fracture mechanics evaluation, investigating accidents causing personal injury/illness or property damage and recommending measures to prevent reoccurrence. The SME will provide technical expertise to airworthiness qualification/release programs for standard configurations and/or alterations/modifications. This includes recommending technical/test requirements, specifications, acceptance criteria, and measuring programs consistent with design criteria, statements of work, and airworthiness qualification specifications and plans. The role requires analyzing structural design criteria, stress, internal and external loads, finite element modeling, strength and margins of safety, statistical evaluations, and structural design. Additionally, the SME will provide fatigue test requirements and test plan definition, evaluate fatigue test results, define flight load survey test plans, determine fatigue methodology requirements, and analyze/review design and production drawings. The position also involves reviewing test plans and reports for laboratory and flight tests, and field support documents such as depot maintenance work requests, technical manuals, and quality deficiency reports. The role requires experience and the ability to perform detailed and complex calculations, including classical stress analysis techniques, finite element modeling techniques, fatigue/fracture mechanics analysis techniques, and aerospace structures design, plus knowledge of practices/principles necessary to assess advanced systems concepts, assess specifications and perform system integration.

Requirements

Minimum of 16 years with BS/BA, 14 years with MS/MA, 10 years with PhD
Experience in Aircraft Structural Analysis with a degree in Engineering
Understanding of statistical reliability for engineering structures
Understanding of Classical Stress Analysis Techniques, Finite Element Modeling Techniques, Fatigue/Fracture Mechanics Analysis Techniques, and Aerospace Structures Design
Understanding of practices/principles necessary to assess advanced systems concepts, assess specifications and develop structural airworthiness requirements
Experience performing Finite Element Analysis using Patran, FEMAP, or ANSYS.
Experience with CAD modeling and reading engineering drawings.
Knowledge of structural bench testing, static and fatigue of aircraft structural components
Experience with structural flight tests, such as Flight Load Surveys
Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
Must be a U.S. citizen

Nice To Haves

Experience with analysis of rotor head (dynamic) components a plus
Experience with composite structures is desired

Responsibilities

Provides structural engineering support to Army Aviation customers by applying classical structural methods and advanced finite element modeling techniques to; evaluate possible new design alternatives, repairs, and/or redesign efforts.
Performs fatigue analysis/ fracture mechanics evaluation, investigates accidents causing personal injury/illness or property damage and recommends measures that can be taken to prevent reoccurrence.
Provides technical expertise to the airworthiness qualification/release programs standard configurations and/or alterations/modifications to standard configurations.
Will apply top technical expertise in, recommending technical/test requirements, specifications, acceptance criteria and measuring programs consistent with, and in the definition of, design criteria, including statements of work and airworthiness qualification specifications and plans.
Analyzes structural design criteria, stress, internal and external loads, finite element modeling, strength and margins of safety, statistical evaluations, and structural design.
Provides fatigue test requirements and test plan definition and evaluating fatigue test results; providing flight load survey test plan definition, determining fatigue methodology requirements; and analyzing and reviewing design and production drawings.
Reviews test plans and reports for laboratory and flight tests, and field support documents such as depot maintenance work requests, technical manuals, and quality deficiency reports.