Stress Analyst
Job ID
127380
Job Type
Contract
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Talascend is currently seeking a Stress Analyst for an opportunity in Indianapolis, IN.
SUMMARY:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
SUMMARY:
- Seeking some people with some mid-range to support some of the other junior personnel.
- Stress analysts with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in ANSYS, workbench and APDL preferred.
- One of the two preferred to have thin walled aerospace structures experience.
- Gas Turbine experience.
- Steady and modal analysis experience.
- Crack prop experience.
- Testing experience, Strain Gauge Placement/Reading/Postprocessing would be a nice bonus.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- As a Contingent Structural Analysis Engineer you’ll perform a range of system structural assessments across the full product lifecycle, including new design concepts through to in-service operations.
- You will also bring forward innovative analytical and experimental solutions for customer issues to meet whole product mechanical integrity requirements, including static, transient, and dynamic loads and responses.
- Perform system level structural assessments, such as Whole Engine Modeling, static and dynamic analysis.
- Experimental test planning and interpretation, such as correlation of simulation to experimental data.
- Facilitate teamwork between many disciplines (i.e. - manufacturing, quality, engineering, product support, etc.).
- Communicate technical and business results via reports and presentations to senior engineers both within and external to the client.
- Participate in technical reviews, Product Safety Reviews, Technical Life Reviews and Customer Reviews.
- Take an active role in continual improvement of our engineering methods and processes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Associate degree in Engineering with 4+ years of experience - OR -
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 2+ years of related experience - OR -
- Master’s degree in engineering - OR - JD/PhD.
- In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be a US Citizen or permanent resident.
- Previous experience building and running models for static and dynamic structural analysis.
- Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) codes such as Nastran, Ansys, Dyna3D, NX.
- Exposure to experimental testing and data interpretation, in particular for vibrating structures.
- Ability to quickly learn mechanical integrity topics, such as Whole Engine Modeling, rotordynamics and extreme event assessments (e.g. bird strike, fan blade off, etc.).
- Programming skills such as Matlab, Python, Fortan, Java, C, C++ and an interest in automating or scripting analysis tasks.
- Ability to plan and coordinate assigned work with other groups and drive to finish assigned tasks on schedule.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.