Senior Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer

Number of employees

250

Bristol, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2022-09-28

Category: transportation

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Revolutionising urban air mobility and electrifying air travel

Why work with us? 

We at Vertical Aerospace are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, creating technology to achieve sustainable air travel like never before. Vertical comprises a world-class team of leaders, experts, engineers who're all striving towards the same goal, to make air travel personal, on-demand, and carbon free. This is your chance to be a part of this extraordinary team.

Vertical is one the world’s leading eVTOL businesses, and a pioneer of this ground-breaking new segment, which marks the beginning of sustainable aviation. 

Founded in 2016, Vertical uniquely combines the best of the aerospace, Formula 1 and automotive industries and has become one of only seven companies globally to have successfully flown multiple full-scale eVTOL prototypes.  The VX4, is a world-leading fully composite tilt-rotor winged eVTOL that will carry one pilot and four passengers or cargo.  VX4 is in plan to be certified in late 2025, placing the business in the top two companies globally with a commercially viable aircraft capable of spanning intra and intercity passenger and cargo eVTOL markets. 

We are looking for a Senior Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer who will:

We are looking for someone that will enjoy working with a world class team comprised of leading aerospace and technology thinkers as well as some of the finest engineering talent. Of course, you will possess or be able to rapidly adopt a passion for sustainable aviation and it’s benefits for both society and sustainability.

Vertical is a values-led business that embraces diversity in all its forms in particular diversity of thought. Vertical is committed to building an industry leading team offering global perspectives that represent the communities it serves.

The responsibilities and duties of the Senior Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer will be as follows: 

Developing and executing methods, tools and processes that will enable F&DT analysis to be carried out on novel structures.  Carrying out analysis that will create optimised solutions to meet challenging requirements.  Leading the structural analysis of metallic and composite structures using both first principles and mathematical modelling techniques.    Defining, understanding and carrying out tasks that enable the certification of structures and related Means of Compliance activities in the F&DT regime.   Being a team player that has great communications skills and is capable of reporting and explaining technical issues to all company levels.  Leading small technical teams and defining activities required to complete suitable analysis.  

The successful Senior Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Engineer will have the following Experiences & Qualifications:

  • 5 years + relevant industrial experience  
  • Degree or equivalent in a relevant field 
  • Proven capability of successfully leading technical teams 
  • IT skills and experience of developing and using F&DT analysis tools 
  • Have gained relevant technical signature rights 

 

Do you like the look of this opportunity but not sure if you meet all of the criteria we’ve outlined in the advert?

Here at Vertical, we are working to create an environment of growth, diversity and opportunities for people to take on challenges and push the status quo. 

If you are excited about this role or joining us but your experience or qualifications are not completely aligned with the criteria, we would still love to hear from you, this may be the role for you! 

 

This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.

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