Senior Structural Analyst - Neutron
Rocket Lab seeks a Senior Structural Analyst to build Neutron: Rocket Lab's medium lift, reusable launch.
As a Senior Structural Analyst you will work directly with design, manufacturing, and test engineers to develop and validate primary and secondary structures for the Neutron launch vehicle: owning your designs from concept to completion.
This role is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
What You'll Get To Do:
- Support the analysis of primary and secondary structures, including composites and metallic components, and integrated structural assemblies
- Build, run, and post-process FE models to calculate design responses and margins to static, dynamic, and thermal loads
- Collaborate with design engineers to develop concepts, and manufacturing engineers to identify suitable materials, and define pragmatic build processes
- Work alongside test engineers to define test plans, monitor test activities, and post-process test data against analytical predictions
- Develop and document structural analysis methods
- Proactively identify and solve technical challenges to allow projects to proceed at pace
- Technically assist junior engineers.
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar field
- 5+ years' experience performing structural analysis in high performance applications
- Strong understanding of composites engineering fundamentals (mechanics of materials, classical lamination theory, material property characterization, design best practices, analysis methods, and manufacturing processes)
- Demonstrated expertise with one or more industry standard structural FEA packages: NASTRAN (FEMAP), ANSYS, Abaqus, Optistruct/Hyperworks etc.
- Experience with structural testing of composite components or assemblies
- Familiarity supporting composite manufacture and prototyping
- The ability to work to deadlines within a high-pressure environment
These Qualifications Would Be Nice To Have:
- Experience with defect and damage tolerance assessment of composite structures including the disposition of hardware non-conformances
- Experience in linear and non-linear buckling
- Experience in composite joint design
- Experience with sensor selection and data post-processing/ interpretation of static & dynamic structural test (load cells, accelerometers, strain gauges, LVDT's etc.)
- Experience with CAD software such as NX (preferred), Fibersim (preferred), Solidworks, CATIA, or similar with a focus on model defeaturing for subsequent analysis
- Experience using Product Lifecycle Management software such as Teamcenter (preferred), Windchill, or similar
- Hands-on composites manufacturing experience
If the above sounds like you apply now!