Structural Analysis Engineer

Overview

Would you like to work on exciting projects, enjoy new challenges, and be part of a multicultural and motivated team full of passion and team spirit? LSS is the perfect place for you. In this role you will work within a multi-functional environment to achieve our technical and schedule objectives. You will enhance our team by improving designs, providing new insights into structural analyses, and influencing technical decisions across multiple ongoing projects.

Responsibilities

• Influence new product design via sound, succinct, data-driven analysis results.
• Aid in the definition of project scope in agreement with stakeholders.
• Interact with project partners (internal and external) to optimize the designs and interfaces.
• Develop constructive solutions in conjunction with internal departments, clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Provide results tailored to business needs.
• Prepare detailed technical reports and presentations.
• Construct complex Finite Element Models for a range of structural evaluations: modal analysis, dynamic (sine, random), thermal, etc.
• Do simulation of mechanically and thermally loaded components in ANSYS (APDL and Workbench), and/or Siemens FEMAP (NASTRAN) for space applications.
• Detail assumptions and limitations of analysis techniques.
• Develop and optimize simulations, both via code scripting and GUI.
• Interpret and evaluate simulation results.
• Find the right balance between model simplicity and accuracy.
• Back up complex analysis results with hand calculations, code scripting and spreadsheet calculations.
• Proactively ensure simulation results are comparable to design requirements.