Strength Analyst 1 - Vulcan Development

Job Overview & Responsibilities

As a Strength Analyst at ULA Job responsibilities include the following:

• Candidate will support Vulcan Development activities, including Centaur V on SLS in support of Artemis and Upper Stage Advancement long-duration capabilities
• Candidate will perform strength, fatigue, and fracture analyses of propulsion and structural components, including nonlinear analyses
• Candidate will be required to create analysis models, perform hand calculations and understand analysis best practices to provide strength inputs and recommendations for new designs and installations
• Candidate will be required to review and approve 3-D engineering layouts, 3-D models, designs / drawings and 2-D drawing changes for a variety of propulsion, fluid system and mechanical system components
• Candidate will make engineering design recommendations with consideration of thermal, mechanical and pressure loading using appropriate material properties, configurations, safety factors, etc.
• Analysis results will be documented in strength reports
• Candidate will support internal peer reviews, tabletop reviews, and formal design reviews as needed
• Candidate will support fast-paced design/analysis cycles and trade studies
• Candidate will need familiarity with the following:
• CAD/Simulation Tools
• FEA Tools
• Mathcad
• MATLAB
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Required Education

Bachelor

Required Years of Experience

None required

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field from an accredited college or university
• Ability to make design recommendations based on analysis results/experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Understanding of materials and material properties
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Understanding of fatigue/fracture analysis tools and methodology
• Understanding of bolted joint modeling and analysis
• Understanding of GD&T standards and principles
• Understanding of analysis best practices and underlying assumptions
• Understanding of basic hand calculations
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or familiarity with the following:
• Nastran (static, modal, dynamic and nonlinear analysis solutions)
• Femap pre-/post-processor
• NASGRO fracture mechanics tool
• Unix/Linux-mainframe-based analysis tools
• Experience running/creating analysis automation and pre- and post-processing scripts using the following tools
• Unix, Matlab, Python, Excel
• Experience with static/dynamic testing and model correlation
• Experience with structural optimization techniques for mass savings
• Knowledge of NASGRO fracture mechanics tool and Abaqus