The Talent Mine is recruiting for a Sr. / Lead Fluids/Mechanical Design Engineer – Tubing for an immediate contract to hire role. This is with a very well-known/reputed player in the aerospace industry, and they are hiring due to a push to deliver on a new R&D project!
If you are the kind of Fluids ME that has a passion for design, tubing, and space exploration, read on!
Responsibilities:
- Design of various pressure vessel types and shapes to accommodate vehicle space allocation and integration envelope.
- Design of fluid lines and flex elements for cryogenic and space application.
- Drawing generation, including tolerance and GD&T setup.
- Ownership of design release cycle, including drawings release and DFM reviews.
- Analysis of primary and secondary spacecraft pressure vessels.
- Integration of structural analysis with loads and dynamics environments.
- Finite Element Model development, refinement, validation, and correlation to tests.
- Strength checks and analysis report generation.
- Test and verification plan and report generation.
- Support configuration development and trade studies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Civil Engineering.
- 8+ years of experience in the prediction/validation of low and/or high-frequency structural dynamics and loads, in addition to finite element modeling.
- Solid foundation of structural static/dynamic fundamentals.
- Passion for spacecraft structural/environmental loads development/validation.
- Ability to solve a variety of static and dynamic structural problems using physics-based analytical methods (hand calculations, in-house tools, and 3rd party commercial analytical tools).
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
- Experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, or automotive in some of the following areas:
- External loads
- Vibro-acoustic analysis
- Thermal Loading
- Analysis using Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, or Opti-struct
Preferred Qualifications:
- COPV Pressure Vessel design and analysis.
- Metallic Pressure Vessel design and analysis.
- Fluids Lines design and analysis.
- Flex Elements design and analysis.
- Composite design and analysis skills in any thermoset, thermoplastic, metal matrix, and ceramic matrix composites.
- Manufacturing methods, material selection, testing, characterization & allowable development.
- Experience testing materials, joints, components, and vehicles.
- Structural optimization using standard industry codes (Optistruct, HyperSizer, Nastran Sol 200, etc).
- Experience with ProEngineer Wildfire 4 / Creo Parametric or greater.
- Experience with ProEngineer Wildfire 4 / Creo Parametric or greater piping/routing module.
- Experience with Human spaceflight.
- Experience with composites.
- Experience with AIAA S-080 and S-081.
- Experience with EJMA Ninth and Tenth Edition.
*NOTE: Must be a US Person and be able to pass both a criminal BG check and drug screen.
If you feel qualified and interested in this immediate contract to hire role in the Seattle area, let's chat! The team at the Talent Mine COMES from the IT industry, and we love to serve our candidates as peers in the field. Let's help you land your next exciting adventure today!
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