Journeyman Aerospace/ Mechanical Engineer

Journeyman Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer — 1 Opening

Location: Fort Eustis, VA
Work Arrangement: Primarily onsite
Clearance: Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding
Travel: Up to 25%
Employment: Full-time; contingent upon contract award

Essnova is seeking a Journeyman Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer to provide aircraft analysis, integration, airworthiness, and testing support for U.S. Army aviation research and development projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Support systems-engineering and technical-analysis activities for Army aviation programs.
• Assist with defining technical performance measures for testing and evaluation.
• Support post-test data collection, reduction, analysis, and reporting.
• Develop or support modeling and simulation environments, system architectures, and verification plans.
• Prepare engineering designs, drawings, analyses, and substantiation documentation for the integration of candidate solutions onto Army aviation platforms.
• Support the preparation of aircraft airworthiness-substantiation documentation.
• Develop and execute test plans and procedures for material, component, subsystem, full-system, environmental, electromagnetic, vibration, shock, and structural testing.
• Prepare technical analyses and test reports addressing applicable specifications, aircraft requirements, structural loads, fatigue, vibration, and system performance.
• Support simulations, human-in-the-loop evaluations, laboratory testing, and field testing.
• Participate in technical interchange meetings and present engineering findings.
• Work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Academic preparation must include classical analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue analysis, and finite-life or infinite-life assessment.
• Candidates must meet one of the following combinations:
• Bachelor’s degree and at least two years of experience generating aviation and/or research and development test plans, analyses, and technical reports; or
• Master’s degree and at least one year of experience generating aviation and/or research and development test plans, analyses, and technical reports.
• Ability to prepare clear engineering analyses and technical documentation.
• Ability to present technical findings at technical interchange meetings and senior-level briefings.
• Active Secret clearance granted by DCSA; Interim Secret is acceptable during onboarding.
• Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
• Ability to travel up to 25% for site surveys, technical meetings, training, testing, and other mission requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Army aviation, military aircraft, rotorcraft, or DoD research and development experience.
• Aircraft integration or airworthiness experience.
• Experience with classical stress analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue analysis, structural loads, vibration, or resonance.
• Experience developing or executing environmental, electromagnetic, structural, vibration, or aircraft-related test programs.
• Familiarity with Army Regulation 70-62 or military aviation airworthiness processes.
• Experience integrating mission equipment or emerging technologies onto aircraft platforms.
• Experience analyzing test data and preparing engineering-substantiation reports.

Contract Requirement

This position supports a federal proposal and is contingent upon contract award. The anticipated staffing level may change during task-order performance based on Government mission requirements.