Aerostructures Design Engineer

Job description

**Qualification & Skills** Degree level or equivalent in Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering preferred, with a minimum of 4 to 8 years of experience in Design of Composite and/or metallic components. **Essential skills:** - Excellent knowledge of Aerospace Primary and Secondary structures - Wings, Fuselage, Empennage - The Design Engineer will develop, integrate and implement technical solutions for some of our high-profile programmes of work. - Ensure designs are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements and internal standards within the programme, schedule, and manufacturing constraints. - Have a shared responsibility in the design of structural aircraft and helicopter components, identifying technical problems and creating technical solutions. - Work with both metal and composite structures and different assembly techniques. - Use a variety of methods and tools, for example CAD (experience using CATIA V5 and preferably NX / 3DX) and PLM (Windchill, 3DX) software. - Experience in designing composite structures is a preferred, including CAD tools like CPD and/or FiberSim. **Key Responsibilities:** - Wing, Empennage Fuselage Aero structures detailed design & development and support production requirements where necessary. - The design engineer will be part of a multidisciplinary team together with analysis engineers, manufacturing engineers, cost engineers and tooling engineers. - Working in all phases of a programme, starting with the conceptual phase, the full-scale phase in which the detailed design is translated into product drawings/ models, up to the product maturation phase assisting with problems during manufacturing and proposing changes to the detailed design in order to contribute to weight and cost savings. - Work on the integration of all requirements and input from other engineering disciplines into the conceptual and detailed design, such that the product definition can be made and a cost-efficient and producible design is achieved. - Propose design solutions, based on the correct balance of cost, quality, manufacturability, serviceability and performance. - Prepare drawings and other engineering data required for the manufacturing of the product and data submittal to the customer. - To communicate effectively with co-worker, customer and suppliers - Configuration services, BOM creation using codified components. - Modelling, simulation and prototyping services knowledge - Design or amendment of Components, Products to a specification. - Design for cost/manufacture services. - Produce layout drawings and or detailed and accurate drawings - Propose Delivery and installation strategies, installation designs (red/green drawings), mod packs for installing hardware products onto platforms. - Perform basic design changes (Notes, standard parts in models etc.) in metallic detail parts and assemblies within CATIA. - Update the Bill of Materials (BOM) and write the Engineering Change Note (ECN) - Exposure and knowledge of aero structures MRB/concessions on metallic & composite parts will be an advantage