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Engineer Aeronautical
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What they do
An Aerospace Engineer designs aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft using knowledge of engineering and physics, and tests prototypes to see if they work according to design. May specialize in aeronautical design and work with airplanes and helicopters, or specialize in astronautical design and work with vehicles used in outer space. May specialize in a particular area of design, such as aerodynamic flow or navigation.
$118,318 / year median in Florida
+7% projected growth
Job Description
Job Category:
Engineering Position Type:
Associate - W2Duration:
12 months We have an outstanding Contract position for an Engineer Aeronautical to join a leading Company located in the Palm Beach Gardens, FL surrounding area. This position will apply engineering principles, industry standards, company standards and customer requirements to develop and perform thermo-structural analysis simulations--under general supervision--to support design activities across Propulsion Systems and Controls, Elkton Operations product lines. These simulations include development of thermo-structural models, gridding, selection of boundary conditions and constraints, selection of applicable material properties and selection of proper simulation codes and methodologies. In addition, this position will coordinate strategy for developing and leveraging multi-disciplinary design, optimization, and analysis processes to support mission requirements.Job Responsibilities:
- Under general supervision, develop analytical approaches to assist in the resolution of unique structural/thermo-structural mechanics issues.
- Provide structural mechanics and material specialist recommendations to IPT working group.
- Taking role in developing methodologies, interpretation of analytical results, and recommendations for design improvement.
- Preparation of technical reports and presentations of work products to both internal and external customers.
- Provide technical assessments of test hardware and test data.
- ANSYS mechanical experience.
- Development of material models for thermal or structural analyses efforts.
- Assist in development of material test plans, selection of test methods, test data analysis to support material modeling efforts.
- Provide analytical services in support of failure investigations: developing fault trees, developing approaches and providing analytical efforts to assess fault causes.
- Assist project team in design of experiments testing to provide necessary data to support detailed analyses.
- Form close working relationships with internal and external customer technical community and specific customer technical points of contact.
- Ability to organize, preserve, and manage engineering data, design documentation, and models to ensure they remain searchable, secure, and accessible for future redesigns, manufacturing, or analysis.
Benefits
- Dental Insurance