Structural Analysis Engineer 5

On May 2, 2005, The Boeing Company and the Lockheed Martin Corporation announced their intention to form a joint venture called the United Launch Alliance (ULA).

 

ULA brings together two of the launch industry’s most experienced and successful teams - the Lockheed Martin Atlas and Boeing Delta teams - that have supported America’s presence in space for almost 50 years. Atlas and Delta expendable launch vehicles have carried more than 850 combined payloads to space ranging from weather, telecommunications and national security satellites that protect and improve life on Earth, to deep space and interplanetary exploration missions that further our knowledge of the universe.

 

Job title: Structural Analysis Engineer 5

Req. number: 25940

Job location: Littleton, CO 80127

 

Job Description:

- Perform dynamic response analysis of Delta launch vehicles, upper stages, and spacecraft to define loads, accelerations, and displacements to establish design requirements and verify structural designs.

- Assignments require experience in mathematical modeling using finite element and component mode synthesis methods, transient response analysis, dynamic model correlation and validation.

- Work according to established guidelines. Develop, document, and maintain processes, methods, and tools.

- Help resolve programmatic and technical problems that would affect cost, schedule, and performance.

- Document analysis reports and present results to internal and external customers.

- Prefer candidates with experience in performing launch vehicle coupled loads analyses.

- Competencies Applicant must be proficient in the use of NASTRAN and PATRAN to develop dynamic models and in performing transient response and random response analyses of complex aerospace structures.

 

Experience:

- Experience with static and dynamic testing of spacecraft structures preferred.

- Education B.S. in a relevant engineering discipline (Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace).

- Fourteen to nineteen years of work related experience in loads and dynamic analysis of launch vehicles preferred.

 

Security Clearance IS Required:

No. Applicants must be eligible for working in the United States. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicants must be US citizens to qualify for obtaining / sustaining a US DoD security clearance.

 

ULA is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

 

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) information.

All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a natural person who is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

 

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