Lead Stress Engineer – Cwmbran – Safran Seats
Hybrid – 3 days on site.
Skills: Static Simulation, Hand Calculations, Certification, Altair, Radioss, HyperCrash, HyperMesh, HyperView, OptiStruct, Nastran, SimSolid, MotionSolve, Linear, Non-Linear, Dynamic, Multi-Body, FEA, Finite Element, Structural, FEM, MBD, Part21
Benefits
- Early finish on Fridays
- Competitive salary and annual bonus and pay review
- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays (option to buy/sell)
- Strong Pension scheme and life assurance
- Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
- Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers
- Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies
Safran – Here, we craft excellence together.
At Safran, excellence is a journey – and we’d love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision.
We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Stress team across all levels from Stress Engineers, through Senior Stress Engineers to Lead Engineers at our Cwmbran site in South Wales.
Your Role
By joining the Stress Engineering team at Safran Seats you will be part of a fast‑paced development environment where your designs and projects become reality as the product lifecycle of First and Business Class aircraft seating is constantly evolved. Working directly with airlines, you will bring cutting‑edge, state‑of‑the‑art aircraft interiors to life.
You will use your engineering core skills daily, from hand calculations to building and running FEA models of design iterations to prove and certify these impressive products. Regardless of your level, we welcome candidates with experience in either static or dynamic simulation, and our senior and lead roles require dynamic simulation skills.
What You’ll Bring
Essential
- Engineering qualifications that provide you with the knowledge to work from first principles.
- The ability to perform hand calculations and work through concepts.
- FEA experience with linear/non‑linear implicit FE analysis and/or multi‑body dynamic analysis and/or non‑linear explicit FE analysis.
- Experience with solvers and other software packages such as Altair Radioss, HyperCrash, HyperMesh, HyperView, OptiStruct, MSC Nastran, SimSolid, MotionSolve.
- Analysing structures made with high‑performance steels, corrosion‑resistant steels, aluminium and/or composite materials of both monolithic and sandwich panel construction.
Desirable
- Knowledge of working to industry standards and codes, including Part 25 (EASA/FAA), Boeing/ Airbus specifications, ACs, ARPs and aerospace standards, as well as material or component test standards and post‑processing methods (e.g. ASTM and B‑Basis calculations).
- Project management experience.
- Ability to programme in VBA, Python or a similar language.
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