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Belcan
Entry-Level Structural Engineer
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What they do
A Structural Engineer designs and analyzes engineering and construction projects to ensure they are safe and structurally sound. They often specialize in particular types of structures, such as buildings, bridges, pipelines, industrial, tunnels, vehicles, ships, aircraft, or spacecraft.
$103,468 / year median in Connecticut
+10% projected growth
Job Description
A Structural entry level Engineer position is currently available onsite at Belcan in Windsor, CT. This is a full time, direct position with full benefits. Matching candidates will need a Bachelor"s or Masters Degree of Science in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering. In this role, you will be part of team that works together at our Belcan office to provide support for our engineering projects. You will conduct structural analyses of a wide variety of component designs utilizing advanced analytical and CAD tools for turbo machinery components.
Job Duties:
- Create, modify, and validate finite element models using industry standard FEA tools (e.g., NASTRAN, ANSYS, Abaqus) and post-process results
- Perform linear, nonlinear, buckling, and modal analyses as required
- Evaluate joint, fastener, bolted, bonded, and lug strength
- Conduct fatigue and damage tolerance analyses, including crack growth evaluations
- Support safe life, fail safe, and damage tolerant design philosophies
- Collaborate with design, loads, materials, and manufacturing engineering teams
- Provide stress analysis guidance during design development and technical reviews
- Support structural testing through pre test predictions and post test correlation
- Investigate test anomalies and support root cause and corrective action efforts
- Perform trade studies to assess weight, strength, cost, and manufacturability impacts
- Ensure compliance with applicable certification, regulatory, and customer requirements
- Prepare and review stress reports, analysis summaries, and certification documentation
- Clearly document assumptions, methods, results, and conclusions
- Support program reviews, audits, and customer technical meetings
- Provide technical recommendations for optimizing hardware designs and modeling approach
- Support data acquisition/ reduction of hardware vibration environment measurements
- Support hardware certification testing
- Review and analyze parts with non-conformance / damage reported by the customer
- Interface with customers, hardware suppliers, and participate in design reviews / trade studies
Requirements:
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering or related field
- Zero to two years' experience
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Due to the nature of our work
US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED
- Desired skills:
Preferred:
- Previous experience with Ansys software We provide a competitive pay and benefits package.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plans
- Professional Development
- Dental Insurance