PRINCIPAL STRESS ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY
BASED DERBY

Principal Stress Engineering Consultant - you will be Degree qualified or possess suitable relevant experience. You will have significant experience in the design assessment of appropriate aircraft structures or mechanical power engineering applications.

Our client is seeking an experienced, technically strong and highly adaptable individual to take on a “Principal Consultant” role to advise on and lead a range of technically demanding projects with their team based in the East Midlands.

The position requires an individual with exceptional breadth of thinking and engineering ability as well as enthusiasm to impart knowledge effectively, particularly in the area of general structural design assessment. You will be expected to offer guidance and lead decision making, providing stress and structural analysis solutions on a range of projects. The emphasis of your work will be on aircraft structures and/or gas turbines. You will be expected to take responsibility for developing the capability of less experienced staff as well as acting as a significant interface with the client to enhance our client’s reputation for technical excellence.

Together with evidence of technical leadership, you will be required to demonstrate expertise in the design and assessment of one or more of gas turbine compressors and/or turbines, aircraft structures – stress assessment for flight clearance

You will also be expected to be a team worker with the ability to effectively manage colleagues when appropriate and posses the flexibility and desire to solve general mechanical engineering stress based design problems.

Ideally you will hold, or have held, delegated signatory status, be trained and experienced in the use of computer numerical methods and be Chartered through the IMechE or RAeS.

All candidates must be in a position to obtain UK security clearance to BC level. Additional restrictions may apply to certain projects.

Our client is a progressive and rapidly expanding part of an international consultancy. They provide high end technical and project management services to the prime aerospace companies. They are a strategic supplier to both Rolls-Royce and Airbus UK, and as such are involved in some of the most challenging and exciting aerospace projects in the world:

• Joint Strike Fighter, A380, A350, A400M & Trent 1000

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate a desire to be challenged and to contribute towards the success and growth of the business. In return the company offers career development, an empowered and supportive working environment and competitive reward package.

All candidates will be expected to demonstrate a professional approach and performance, strong communication skills and commercial awareness. You will be a team worker with the ability to effectively manage yourself and colleagues when appropriate.