Stress Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Stress Engineer

Location AL - Huntsville

Req # 5616

Minimum Clearance Required None

Thank you for your interest in joining the KBR team. Together, we can leverage the next generation of advanced technologies to deliver industry-leading capabilities across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace. Our goal is to deliver innovative solutions using an agile, mission-first approach to address the most difficult technical challenges facing our customers. The only way that we can tackle these challenges is by recruiting the brightest minds in the industry to join our team.

Stress Engineer ?

• Provide Primary and Secondary Structures Design and Analysis
• Develop engineering products to mature the engineering configuration via development of layout deliverables & artifacts
• Coordinate with interfacing teams & other stakeholders as required to ensure all Vehicle Design requirements are met
• Release engineering datasets & strength reports as applicable
• Structural and finite element analysis using code such as Patran/Nastran and Abaqus
• Perform static, fatigue, fracture and damage tolerance analysis of metallic and composite primary and secondary structure.
• Development of structural test plans
• Structural configuration, optimization and sizing
• Impact, durability and damage tolerance analysis
• Perform Design optimization to reduce part count and mass (e.g., monolithic design)
• Perform Design for Manufacturing/Affordability assessments as applicable
• Coordinate with Program Engineering (Project, Design, Manufacturing, etc.) to ensure safety of designs
• Prepare documentation of analysis reports and technical reports of the findings for review
• Support products by investigating failures and analyzing improvements
• Support Material Review Board and perform structural repair engineering, nonconformance analysis
• Perform Stress Analysis (static, stiffness studies, etc.)
• Perform Dynamics Analysis
• Perform Mass Properties Analysis
• Provide documentation to substantiate the design criteria and document analysis results to substantiate for customers and regulatory agencies requirements
• Perform trade studies
• Provide support equipment design and analysis
• Support technical coordination meetings - discuss issues with interpreting engineering documentation, provide answers to technical questions regarding obsolescence and part adaptability, and ensure Boeing technical standards are being met.
• Attend status meetings reflecting work packages received

Requirements:

• Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry. ABET is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.).
• Ability to pass NASA background check.
• US Citizenship is required
• Experience with stress engineering
• Experience with Patran/Nastran and Abaqus

KBR is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by law.