Hybrid Senior Gas Turbine Stress Engineer

at KBR, Inc.

• Job title: Senior Gas Turbine Stress Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £65,000 - £80,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Gloucester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Stress Engineer assessing structural integrity of gas turbines for aerospace and power industries. Conducting FEA methods and delivering projects in a consultancy environment.

Responsibilities

• Assessing the structural integrity of gas turbines to support growing demand for our services from clients in the aerospace and power industries.
• Conducting strength, fatigue, creep and defect tolerance assessments of safety critical parts using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods.
• Writing bespoke software tools to assess components more quickly.
• Delivering and leading projects across the Frazer-Nash portfolio, supporting customers in the defence, energy and transport sectors.
• Meeting and communicating with customers to understand their requirements and develop the approach to deliver the desired outcomes and insights.
• Working across the business and with clients in a consultancy environment.

Requirements

• A degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Technical knowledge in the mechanical / structural engineering domain.
• In-depth experience of advanced Finite Element Analysis such as cracked-body modelling, modelling material non-linearities, authoring user sub-routines and using software such as Abaqus, Ansys or SC03.
• Experience in strength, fatigue (low cycle and high cycle fatigue), creep and fracture assessments.
• Experience in a technical consultancy environment (advantageous).
• Experience of business development (advantageous).
• Experience of building client relationships (advantageous).
• Experience of project management (advantageous).
• Experience of leading large and/or multi-disciplinary projects (advantageous).
• Experience of delivering complex technical work in a commercial environment (advantageous).

Benefits

• Competitive salary with yearly reviews.
• 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
• A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
• Happy to talk flexible working.
• Enhanced parental benefits.
• Company pension scheme.
• Targeted professional development.
• Life assurance.
• Private healthcare membership.
• Bonus scheme linked into company performance.
• Paid membership fees to a professional institution.
• Support in attaining professional membership.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season rail ticket loan.
• And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements.