Structural Analysis Engineer (level 2 / 3)

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Melbourne, FL +1 · Mechanical

Structural Analysis Engineer for Northrop Grumman, focusing on metallic and composite aircraft structures. Responsibilities include performing static, dynamic, and DaDT structural analyses, ensuring designs meet program requirements, and optimizing structures using various software tools. Requires a STEM degree and relevant experience, with a Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Performing static, dynamic, and DaDT structural analyses of metallic and composite airframe structure, mechanical systems, and equipment, by hand and by using the automated methods and procedures approved for the program
  2. Ensuring that designs meet program requirements and are the lightest, lowest cost, and highest quality products consistent with schedule and budget objectives.
  3. May derive non-flight applied loads, create, extract, and perform weight and stiffness optimization utilizing tools such as FEMAP, NX, Teamcenter and other software applications
  4. Candidate must be able to collaborate in a team environment, prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish the project result, prioritize multiple responsibilities and/or accomplish them simultaneously, and comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline
  • 2 years of related professional/military experience (for Level 2)
  • 5 years of related professional/military experience (for Level 3)
  • Ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain a U.S. government Secret clearance
  • Professional experience in aerospace structural analysis

Nice to have

  • Degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering
  • Proficiency with NX Solid Modelling or similar 3D modeling software
  • Proficiency with Teamcenter
  • Understanding of GD&T and MBE methods
  • Final adjudicated government Secret clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance