Our client, a global leader in the aerospace sector, is currently seeking a Principal Performance & Dynamics Engineer to join their Performance & Dynamics team under the Systems Integration & Test department.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a technical expert for the Performance & Dynamics (P&D) team, providing high-level technical guidance.
- Participate in the Safran Landing Systems Experts Network, sharing best practices across the group.
- Influence and guide industry standards by working closely with specific industry bodies, which may require global travel.
- Mentor and coach the wider P&D team, sharing technical knowledge and expertise.
- Maintain technical decision-making responsibility for relevant and assigned programs or projects.
- Provide solutions to technical problems within P&D.
- Serve as Airworthiness technical signatory for the P&D domain.
- Build computational models and run simulations.
- Support technical audits and calculate static and dynamic loads.
- Conduct performance, frequency response, stability, shimmy, modal, and failure case analyses.
- Correlate and validate computational models, and write and validate performance and dynamics requirements.
- Define and document simulation cases and pass/fail criteria.
- Optimise design solutions in collaboration with other engineering disciplines.
- Define test requirements and analyse and interpret test results, ensuring adherence to programme schedules.
Job Requirements:
- Experience in landing gear structures and systems.
- Proficiency in dynamic analysis and computational modelling and simulation.
- Experience with model correlation and validation.
- Knowledge of airworthiness requirements and certification for landing gear and equipment.
- Proficient in using MATLAB/Simulink, MSC ADAMS, and AMESim.
- Proficiency in coding, with experience in languages such as Python.
- Ability to communicate and work effectively with all engineering disciplines and external suppliers.
- Strong coaching, communication, and technical leadership skills.
- Excellent decision-making and technical problem-solving abilities.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of HNC level in an engineering discipline with relevant experience.
Benefits:
- Early finish on Fridays to allow for more personal recharge time.
- Starting with 25 days of holiday plus UK Bank Holidays, with options to buy or sell days to fit your needs.
- An annual bonus and share scheme options to reward your contributions.
- A generous pension scheme with up to 8% matched contributions, and life assurance at 4x your salary.
- Onsite parking, including EV chargers, a subsidised restaurant, bicycle storage, and shower facilities.
- Flexible benefits and working options, and enhanced maternity and family-friendly benefits.
If you are an experienced engineer with significant expertise in performance and dynamics, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and talented team in the aerospace sector.
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