Static Stress Signatory

Stress Approver/Signatory Holder

Reporting to the Stress Team Leader, KDC require a Static Stress Signatory to be part of their experienced engineering team based at our Bristol site. Whilst primarily operating in a checking and approval capacity, the broader role encompasses activities from scoping fixed price tasking to supporting internal and customer operations.

The successful candidate will be used to supporting fixed price work packages whilst operating as an approval signatory, or as a checker with significant experience working towards signatory.

Responsibilities include:

• Customer technical liaison to understand their requirements.
• Support and input to the development of static analysis task scoping and work breakdown structures to fulfil the customer requirements as fixed price tasking.
• Highlight associated technical and commercial risks/assumptions against the scope.
• Regular interaction with internal analysis team and customer technical points of contact to ensure that tasking is progressing using the agreed methods and processes.
• Identifying and reporting any changes in approach or scope.
• Checking / approval of static analysis work package deliverables; technical reports, dossiers, supporting analysis files, drawings etc to agreed budgets and timescales.
• Where required perform analysis and associated documentation.
• Liaising with KDC and customer design/systems teams to ensure integration and collaboration between stress, design and systems teams.

Key Experience and Skills:

• Degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering, or equivalent experience gained in lieu.
• Significant relevant experience in aerospace or high integrity stress analysis roles.
• Extensive experience as a Stress Engineer operating at a senior level within the aerospace industry and able to demonstrate knowledge of hands on capability of both classical hand calculation procedures and finite element methods.
• Track record of signatory responsibility within the aerospace industry including approval of technical deliverables.
• Analysis and approval experience of both metallic and composite aircraft structure.
• Strong awareness and understanding of the responsibilities of an Approval role and able to demonstrate a comprehensive working knowledge of aerospace standards.
• Robust approach and adherence to business and customer quality processes.
• Established engineering capability and someone who can anticipate problems and plan to mitigate.
• An able communicator in verbal, written and presentational forms.
• Logical problem solver who can operate effectively under stretching project constraints.
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