Senior Stress Engineer

About the Role

Senior Stress Engineer

Belfast

Full time

Posted Yesterday

JR10441114

**Job Description:**

**SECURITY CLEARANCE:** You will be subject to BPSS and Export Control checks (including a criminal record check)

**TRAVEL REQUIRED:** Occasional travel within UK

**LOCATION:** Belfast

**GRADE:** B6

**TYPE:** Full time

**WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU**

* **Financial Reward:** Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options

* **Work / Life Balance:** 36 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, flexible working

Join the dynamic engineering team at Airbus Belfast as a Senior Stress Engineer, where you will lead the structural analysis and sizing of cutting-edge commercial aircraft structures from preliminary concept through to final production. Collaborating closely with diverse disciplines such as Design, Manufacturing, and Materials, you will spearhead the evaluation of composite and metallic components to ensure exceptional static strength, fatigue life, and damage tolerance. In this highly impactful position, you will act as the core technical authority for airworthiness certification, authorizing complex finite element models and driving innovative solutions for both manufacturing and in-service aircraft support.

**HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEAM**
* Conduct Structural Stress analysis of composite and Metallic Structures for Static Strength. Fatigue and Damage tolerance.
* Ensure Compliance with Customer requirements and airworthiness regulations.
* Support Aircraft development, certification and In-service Engineering
* Compiling, checking and approving static stress certification reports and dossiers.
* Stress approval of production drawings
* Liaise with other engineering disciplines (Design, Loads, Materials, Manufacturing and Test Engineers)
* Supporting Design Reviews and resolve production or in-service Structural Issues.
* Supporting with the integration of systems into the Aircraft Structure.
* Involved with the development of structural test requirements and plans for certification testing.
* Supporting MRB approval of production concessions as required.

**ABOUT YOU**

**It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that sufficient detail is provided to demonstrate how they meet essential job criteria, as this alone will be used for vetting purposes.**

**Essential**
* Hold a minimum of an HNC in an engineering related subject and have a minimum of 3 years' relevant stress engineering experience.

* Experienced in Stress Analysis using classical methods static Fatigue and Damage Tolerance and Finite element Analysis Using NASTRAN, PATRAN/ Hypermesh for composite and metallic material.
* Experience in technical report writing and presentation material.
* Have experience in checking or approving production drawings or stress analysis reports.
* Demonstrate the ability to work independently.
* Good interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with Engineers and all levels.

**Desirable**

While applicants only need to meet the essential criteria, relevant desirable experience within your specific discipline may be used to shortlist candidates. Given the specialised nature of these roles, you are not expected to meet every item listed below.

**Desirable Criteria - Statics:**
* Previous experience in Airbus stress methods for static and Composite structures including ISAMI.
* Has held previous Airbus Delegation on all A/C programs including legacy Bombardier C-Series of the A220.
* Experience in sizing analysis of the main structural components of commercial aircraft wings.
* Experience in development of Structural Certification Test Requirements.

**Desirable Criteria - Fatigue & Damage Tolerance:**
* Experience in development of fatigue spectrum using Bombardier Goliath tools
* Experience in development of fatigue spectrum using Airbus ISAMI Tools.
* Development of NASGRO stress models for damage tolerance analysis.

**Desirable Criteria - Finite Element Modelling:**
* Experience development of Global and Local/Detailed Finite Element Models for Aircraft development and certification.
* Good working knowledge of Airbus Finite Element Modelling rules
* Experience of FEM validation to comply with Airbus and Certification Requirements.

**Desirable Criteria - Material Review Board:**
* Experience of stress analysis to support disposition of Reports of Non Conformance (RNC's) or concessions.
* Previous MRB approval for stress disposition of concessions.

**Closing date: 7th October 2026**

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