Key Notes
Stress analysis of safety-critical actuation systems is the core requirement for this full-time Bristol role. The advert body identifies a Senior Actuation Systems Stress Engineer, covering structural integrity and certification evidence for flight controls. You will assess supplier engineering work and use classical analysis, FEA and test correlation to substantiate hardware.
What You'll Work On
- Perform static, fatigue, endurance and vibration analyses of actuators and interfaces, substantiating structural margins through classical methods and finite-element models.
- Review supplier designs, analysis reports and test evidence, challenging methods and documentation against engineering requirements and configuration-control expectations.
- Support actuation design changes and system tests, correlating analytical models with results and recording structural risks, mitigations and certification evidence.
Why This Role Matters
- Structural analysis and test correlation establish the margins of flight-control actuators under static, fatigue and vibration loads, providing evidence for hardware integrity and certification decisions.
- Supplier actuation hardware enters a wider flight-control architecture, requiring consistent analysis and verification evidence across organisational boundaries before certification conclusions can be supported.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Relevant experience includes aerospace or other safety-critical actuation stress analysis and supplier technical review.
- Technical: Relevant technical capabilities include classical stress methods, FEA, structural testing and CATIA or equivalent CAD.
- Domain: Relevant domain knowledge includes flight-control actuator loading, verification and technical risk assessment.
- Technical: Relevant technical capabilities include JIRA or similar task and problem-management tools.