Senior Cabin Stress Engineer (Contract)

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Senior Cabin Stress Engineer (Contract) to join our Engineering department based in Mobile, AL.

This position supports the development of aircraft cabin interior structures as a stress analyst. Duties include performing analyses for metallic or composite cabin interior structures to ensure compliance to company requirements and regulatory standards. Methods include the use of both classical hand calculations and computer techniques to develop high strength to weight ratio structures. 

Meet the Team:

Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and direct support to our airline customers. If you’re interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of Airbus products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world.

Your Working Environment:

The Engineering Center in Mobile, Alabama houses hundreds of Airbus engineers who assist in the design and development of Airbus commercial aircraft cabins, including aftermarket upgrades, reconfigurations and services of all product types across the globe.

Your Challenges:

• Autonomously perform routine to moderate detailed stress analysis of cabin or cargo components, by classical hand analysis as well as Finite Element methods, to support the structural design efforts of new and modified components from the conceptual phase to development and certification.

• Perform review of supplier stress substantiation reports to ensure compliance to aircraft design requirements

• Coordinate with design engineers, suppliers and technical leads to assure that the design meets the project deliverables timeline by providing analysis to support releases.

• Create and deliver technical documents and presentations with limited direction.

• Accept broad objectives with agreed deadlines, but establish the tasks required and how they should be completed. Capable of working independently.

• Effectively communicates issues, solutions, ideas, and status of current work internally and externally.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. (Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or Civil Engineering)

• 7+ years experience in design and analysis with cabin and cargo and/or system installation projects.

• 10% travel (Domestic and International) involved

• US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license), Authorized to work in the US.

• Frequently uses widely known technical principles, theories, and concepts to solve technical problems.

• Capable of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment both independently and collectively.

• Dependable, self-motivated and accessible.

• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings, technical procedures and bill of material systems to develop project plans.

• Basic knowledge of Regulatory Requirements pertaining to aircraft design, certification and maintenance.

• Able to provide technical guidance of routine to low complexity range of problems.

• Capable of creating and delivering technical documents and presentations without guidance.

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite or remote:  100% onsite 

• Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings - part of daily job

• Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on production floor including safety warnings or alarms - part of daily job

• Speaking:  able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.- part of daily job

• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment - part of daily job

• Carrying: able to carry documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. - part of daily job

• Lifting:  able to lift documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. - part of daily job

• Sitting:  able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer. - part of daily job

• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices - part of daily job

• Travel:  able to travel independently and at short notice. - as required based on job needs

• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents):  able to walk through office areas including uneven surfaces. - part of daily job

This role requires US Person status under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)

This position is a temporary (contract) position with no specific time period but could be extended or shortened as needed. Contractors are employed by a 3rd party vendor and placed on assignment to Airbus in America.

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