Structural Engineering, SME

Peraton is hiring, on a part-time on-call basis,  a Aviation Structural Engineering, Subject Matter Expert, at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

What you will do:

• 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.
• The position 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.

What you will need: 

• 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 analysis of rotor head (dynamic) components a plus
• Experience with structural flight tests, such as Flight Load Surveys
• Experience with composite structures is desired
• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Must be a U.S. citizen