Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Specialist

Overview: Responsibilities:

• Addressing increasingly complex technical engineering tasks without the need for supervision.
• Providing solutions by advanced computing/database/CAD/FE or other skills required by projects and showing increasing evidence of using company and client high-level technology.
• Acting as a coach for junior staff.
• To suggest methods of solutions based on a good understanding and use of company, client and state of the art working practices, methods and procedures and his ability to develop derivative approaches.
• Contributing to the development of improved processes and value engineered solutions.
• Ensuring the independent check of engineering output. Where, he has Delegated technical signature rights, carrying out this responsibility/checking diligently and independently of business or project pressures.
• Justifying decisions and explaining reasons for solutions with evidence of a clear logical approach to problem solving.
• Playing a significant role in team/project meetings/technical reviews etc. demonstrating increasing influences within team and externally.
• Preparing reports, minutes and other project documentation effectively and concisely.
• Chairing from a technical point of view a project review in a single specialty and acting as a technical expert focal point within a project team
• Representing company expertise for technical matters in front of the customer or external instances.
• Controlling internal delivery quality and with the customer, analysing performance indicators and contributing to recovering action plans.
• Supporting sales activity for promoting the company and during bidding phases.

Qualifications: Essential skills:

• Knowledge of aircraft Fuselage and wing structure and aircraft loads
• Experienced in spectrum generation and Kt Calculation
• Good in Fatigue and Damage Tolerance (F&DT) calculations of Airbus aircrafts (fuselage section)
• Well versed in ISAMI modules (including crack models, joint models) and ISAMI template preparation
• Should have Fatigue and Damage Tolerance experience related to Single Aisle, Long Range and A350 programs
• F&DT Analysis of Junctions, notches, unfolding radius, lugs & pins
• Sizing and stress analysis of the Fuselage and Wing Structure and interfaces by means of hand calculations, numerical simulations (FEM)
• Experience in numerical modeling, post-processing and reporting of the results
• Checking the analysis and stress dossier at approval level.
• Very well-versed in stress dossier writing
• Good in excel macros
• Knowledge of Airbus processes and procedures
• Expertise in the below tools are needed
• ISAMI
• Hyperview (post processing knowledge)
• Catia V5, PASS SSI (Basic Knowledge)
• Nastran/Patran
• Microsoft Office
• Airbus Supply

Desired skills:

• Visual basic and or python programming knowledge.
• Automation of repeatable tasks / processes.
• Experience in initial Design Stress (Static and FEM) tasks of Aircraft Structures.

Experience: