Structural Ironworker, Sr. jobs in Seattle, WA

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As part of a unique and highly-skilled team, you’ll be responsible for structural analysis of space launch vehicle primary and secondary structures; as well as developing analysis processes. This is a hands-on position that involves all aspects of structural analysis throughout design, assembly, testing, and flight operations.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Detailed hand calc and FEM analysis of primary and secondary aerospace structures.
• Documentation of stress analysis to support release of engineering drawings / documents.
• Making predictions, executing test campaigns, and creating reports in support of hardware qualifications.  
• Providing technical guidance on design concepts (risk vs. cost vs. performance).
• Maintain and report on activity schedule, budget and technical status.
• Supporting other teams and team members with inputs for configuration development and trade studies.
• Analysis checks for designers and junior structural analysts in stress/stability/fracture analysis and best practices.
• Improving enterprise analysis capabilities such as creating process automation tools for model creation, strength checks, and analysis report generation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree (M.S. preferred) in engineering and 8 years of experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, or automotive.
• Demonstrated proficiency with one or more of the following analysis codes, particularly with reading and manipulating input files: Nastran, Optistruct, Ansys.
• Proficiency with Altair Hyperworks products.
• Understanding of FEM modeling techniques (boundary conditions, bolted connections, contact, verification methods, etc.).
• Experience with development and/or qualification testing (test requirements, setup/configuration, test predictions, test conduct/monitoring, etc.).
• Knowledge of aerospace and/or launch vehicle structural requirements.
• Free-body diagrams for internal and reaction load derivation.
• Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (ex: Bruhn, Niu, Roark).
• Basic composites and composite analysis knowledge.
• Analysis of composite and/or metallic structures (sandwich panels, skin-stringer, fittings, etc.).
• Familiarity with composite failure modes and standard test methods (in-plane, interlaminar, shear, fracture, etc.).
• Analysis of stability critical structures (local buckling phenomenon, global buckling, crippling).
• Mesh generation (ex: mid-surfacing) and understanding of element types.
• Bolted joint calculations (bolt preload, joint stiffness, shear-tension interaction, insert pull-out, etc.).
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated process automation experience using scripting languages is highly desired (Matlab, Python, VBA, Fortran, etc.).
• Composite design and analysis skills in any thermoset, thermoplastic, metal matrix or ceramic matrix composites.
• Experience with analyzing / dispositioning non-conformances.
• Experience with Creo (ProEngineer Wildfire 4 or greater).
• Experience with CATIA V5.