Experienced or Senior Structures Design Engineer

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · North Charleston, SC

This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining aircraft structural and component designs using CAD tools. It includes integrating analytical and test results, managing supplier activities, and investigating emerging technologies for future product concepts. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and experience in aircraft structural design, CAD, and composite parts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develops, maintains and modifies structural and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle.
  2. Performs, integrates analytical and test results to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications.
  3. Manages supplier development, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals.
  4. Develops new design processes and tools to improve the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of the development effort.
  5. Investigates emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus on Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace Aeronautical or Material Sciences)
  • 3+ years of experience with aircraft structural design
  • 3+ years of experience using CAD Tools
  • 1+ years of experience designing composite parts

Nice to have

  • Expertise using CATIA and Model Based Definition (MBD) for primary structure design
  • Experience designing and qualifying composite primary and secondary structures, including laminate design, ply-drop strategies, and structural strength considerations
  • Hands‑on experience with fabrication of metallic and composite structures
  • Part 21 and Part 25 Code of Federal Regulations knowledge and experience interacting with Federal Regulators
  • Experience working and managing projects with industry counterparts across the world

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of experience with aircraft structural design
  • 3+ years of experience using CAD Tools
  • 1+ years of experience designing composite parts