Senior Stress Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Stress Engineer, you will own structural analysis across the aircraft lifecycle, translating concepts into robust designs. You’ll work with multidisciplinary teams to solve complex structural challenges for current and future aircraft platforms. Your expertise will guide material selection, analysis methods, and design validation to ensure safety, performance, and reliability. This role offers impact on innovative stratospheric platforms and collaboration across production, maintenance, and design teams. Join a mission to advance Zephyr and Stratospace within a fast-growing aerospace landscape.

Pay / Benefits

• Performance Bonus
• 25 days of annual leave
• Private Healthcare (medical, dental, optical)
• Pension Contributions
• Income Protection & Life Assurance
• Electric Vehicle & Car Scheme (salary sacrifice)`,"Employee Assistance Programme"),

Responsibilities

• Lead structural analysis activities through design and development
• Conduct material selection and structural concept trade studies
• Develop and maintain structural design records using historical data
• Provide structural support for production and line maintenance
• Collaborate with mechanical design engineers on detailed solutions
• Provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams
• Support concept studies, design reviews, and build challenges
• Plan and support structural and materials testing for validation and certification
• Lead or contribute to engineering reviews for work packages
• Assist production with structural repairs, concessions, and deviations
• Identify and implement continuous improvement to quality and manufacturing efficiency
• Maintain and develop disciplinary knowledge and competence

Key requirements

• Proven experience in structural stress analysis in aviation/aerospace
• Strong understanding of aircraft structural design principles and verification
• Experience with FEA and hand calculations
• Working knowledge of composite materials and analysis methodologies
• Proficiency with ANSYS, Nastran, or equivalent tools
• Ability to translate requirements into robust analytical solutions
• Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent communication and ability to justify engineering decisions
• Commitment to continuous improvement and engineering excellence

• Excellent communication and collaboration
• Problem-solving
• Proactive continuous improvement mindset
• FEA (ANSYS, Nastran or equivalent)
• Composite materials analysis
• Classical hand calculations

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