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Senior Structural Engineer – New Glenn
| Company | Blue Origin |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $140959 – $197342.25 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- B.S. degree or higher in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field.
- 5-10+ years in professional engineering experience.
- Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials, stress/strain, statics, and finite element analysis.
- Experience with large primary or secondary structures.
- Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc).
- Familiarity with tolerance, GD&T and design for manufacturability.
- Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software.
- Strong product data management (PDM) skills (e.g. Windchill, TeamCenter, etc).
- Hands on experience with hardware ‘on the production floor’ and/or ‘in service’.
- Ability to travel 0%-20% of the year to Suppliers and Manufacturing Facility in FL to support manufacturing as needed.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering scope to close including planning, detailed design, engineering release, procurement, and test.
- Ownership of the entire design cycle of components, including conceptual and detailed design, trade studies, structural analysis, build, development testing, and qualification.
- Develop, release, and maintain a full CAD and drawing engineering definition package.
- Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules.
- Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting.
- Perform or facilitate emergent analysis for non-conformances.
- Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
- Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to work independently driving engineering from conceptual to released engineering and flight hardware.
- Experience designing for manufacturability and value engineering, with focus on cost reduction and build time hour optimization.
- Experience with FEA analysis codes: Nastran, ANSYS, Optistruct, LS/Dyna.
- Familiarity with buckling, fatigue and/or fracture failure modes.
- Experience in risk management and consolidation of technical data for presentation to senior leadership.
