Structural Dynamics Engineer - Join a Leading Company

PGS Worldwide is actively seeking a skilled Structural Dynamics Engineer to support ongoing projects for an Aerospace leader in Palmdale, CA. This is an initial 12-month contract-to-hire opportunity and I will respond immediately to all qualified candidates.

Job Description

An Aerospace leader is seeking a full-time Airframe Structures Dynamics Engineer for the Advanced Development Programs (ADP) in Palmdale, California. A successful candidate will apply technical expertise in developing solutions to aircraft structural design problems. Responsibilities for this position may include:

• Creation and/or modification of primary and secondary structural parts, assemblies, installations, and interface control models/documents.
• Contributing to developing, testing, and validating aircraft structural dynamics analyses.
• Assisting in creating system requirements, trade studies, statements of work, and test plans.
• Coordination with internal Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), with some interaction with external IPTs and suppliers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering technical discipline such as Mechanical, Aerospace, or Aeronautical, 9 years experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or 7 years with a Master's Degree.
• Special Access Program (SAP) clearance with investigation in last 5 years.
• Experience making/updating Finite Element Models (FEM) in Patran, HyperMesh, FEMAP, or similar.
• Experience with running and interpreting Modal Analysis (SOL103), Random Vibration (SOL111), Transient Analysis (SOL112), Non-linear analysis (SOL106/400).
• Experience with developing vibration environments for aircraft (Mission Based Analysis) and maintaining Environment Criteria Documents (ECD).
• Experience with vibroacoustic and data processing.
• Subsystem qualification experience (vendor testing, interpreting previous qualification data and making assessment to current predicted environments, delta qual, etc.).
• Proficient in scripting language (MATLAB, Python, VBA, C++, etc.).
• Experience with documenting technical results and analysis and presenting to customers in an effective way.

Desired:

• Proficient in MSC/Hexagon ADAMs for mechanism and landing gear.
• Familiar with RCC-319.
• Experience with structural analysis for preliminary sizing.

Job ID: 14786-1

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