Stress Engineer

Job description - summary:

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solution (CWS) is one way we support our clients. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of our globally respected client who develop cutting-edge technologies that deliver clean, safe and competitive solutions to meet the planet's vital power needs we are looking for a number of Aerospace Stress Engineers for a 12 months contract based in Bristol. Please note that these roles are going to be on a hybrid basis.

Purpose of the role:

We have numerous positions across each team; Critical Part Lifing, Turbomachinery and Structures.
The Stress Engineer will use Ansys or Abaqus to assess the mechanical behaviour of the engine and powerplant assembly under static (flight loads, mechanical deflections) and dynamic (vibration, FBO, etc.) conditions. The Stress Engineer supports the Design function by undertaking analysis of the proposed designs to ensure that they are robust and that they meet requirements.

Day-to-Day Activities:

• To conduct Stress Analysis. This includes selection and generation as well as involvement in further development of numerical models, use of numeral calculation methods, developing of interdisciplinary agreed boundary conditions and implementation into own models as well as into models of other disciplines (e.g. performance), plausibility check of boundary conditions, execution and analysis of numerical model calculations, understanding calculations as well as derive suggestion for improvements.
• To conduct Mechanical experiments. This includes preparation of experiment specification for tests on test rigs and engines, supervision and support of experiments, plausibility check of results during the execution of the test, analysis and interpretation of test results and comparison with analytical and/or empirical models.
• To resolve problems through evaluative judgements. Analyses factual information from multiple sources, interprets results and identifies effective solutions by applying their own technical knowledge, expertise and engineering judgement.
• Is responsible for defined technical packages/investigations of work providing delivery against programme milestones within agreed cost, timescale and quality requirements.
• To be a point of contact within a given engineering discipline and to share subject matter knowledge across the function. This may include providing advisory services to designated customers, influencing their peer group, representing senior departmental staff and acting as advisor/coach on matters where they are technically authoritative.

Key skilled/Qualifications:

• Experience as a Stress Engineer within an aerospace engineering environment
• Qualifications; bachelor's degree within a suitable engineering discipline.
• Working knowledge of Gas turbine engines.
• Experience using systems such as Ansys, or Abaqus (Nice to have: MATLAB, VBA, or Python).
• Must be able to obtain Security Clearance.

Next steps:

We will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for the Stress Engineerposition and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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