Title:  Specialist, Mechanical Dynamics Analysis Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Mechanical Analysis Engineer (Dynamics)

Job Code: 24242

Job Location: Orlando, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Aerojet-Rocketdyne Coleman Aerospace, an L3Harris Technologies Company, has an immediate opening for a Mechanical Dynamics Analysis Engineer to join our Coleman Aerospace team in Orlando, FL. Coleman Aerospace produces complex single, two, and three-stage air-launched target vehicles used to support ballistic missile defense testing and is the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment Center of Excellence for Undersea Propulsion manufacturing. We are seeking a self-motivated individual contributor with junior to mid-level mechanical Dynamics analysis skills that can help support large, complex project initiatives of substantial importance to the organization, while working under guidance of more senior analysts. 

Essential Functions:

• Perform structural static and dynamic analyses utilizing classic hand calculation methods and finite element models.
• Provide support to structural dynamics testing activities (vibration, shock, acoustic etc.) and assess measured data against requirements. 
• Analyze dynamic response data from launch vehicle missions to define dynamic environments and for structural health monitoring.
• Correlate analysis models and test results.
• Provide assessment of the products ability to satisfy internal structural requirements as well as those flowed by the customer.
• Report status and results of analysis tasks at team meetings, design and program reviews.
• Prepare technical reports documenting all analysis activities.
• Travel may be required but typically less than 10%

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant Mechanical Dynamics Analysis Engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience working in several of the following areas:
  • Dynamic analysis (coupled loads, random vibration, shock, flutter, explicit analysis)
  • Analysis of aerospace structures (primary and secondary)
  • Vehicle load path definition and strength analysis
  • Perform analysis to support Nonconformances
  • Experience with metallic structures and bolted joints
  • Linear and Non-Linear stress analysis of metallic and/or composite structures (skin-stringer, fittings, sandwich panels, etc)
  • Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (Bruhn, Niu, Roark, etc)
  • Fatigue or damage tolerance and crack growth (hand calcs, NASGRO, VCCT, etc)
  • Analysis tools PATRAN, FEMAP, and/or NASTRAN
  • Provide test support including writing test plans, procedures, and reports, data review/reduction, derivation of loads, force / acceleration limiting, correlating tests such as static pull tests, random vibration, sine vibration, modal, etc., and logistics. 
• Experience within MDA/NASA, the aerospace industry, or related discipline
• Development of software tools (Excel, Matlab, Python, etc) to support the detailed analysis and optimization of aerospace structures.
• Identification of opportunities for analysis efficiency improvements.
• Experience with composites and bonded joints.
• Structural optimization using standard industry codes.
• Experience in non-conforming material review of root cause / corrective action and disposition instructions.
• Experience with White Belt training, lean manufacturing, and/or 6-sigma practices.
• Ability to use Creo to interrogate design models and support model preparation.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-1540 / SMC-S-016 / MIL-STD-810, or other launch vehicle test requirements document.
• Familiarity with NASA-STD-5020 or other similar fastener design and analysis specifications.

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