Aircraft Structures Design Engineer
Company: Overair
Location: Santa Ana
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionCompany Overview:At Overair, we are dedicated to
bring next generation sustainable air transportation to everyone.
Our answer is Butterfly, an all-electric vertical takeoff and
landing (VTOL) aircraft designed to safely and affordably carry
passengers over traffic and congestion. Butterfly leverages over
two decades of VTOL aircraft development, patented VTOL technology,
and flight vehicle experience. Overair believes in the lofty goals
of sustainable air mobility and we are committed to solving the
hard challenges along the way. We are building an industry leading
team covering an expanse of skills, talents, and expertise in order
to build a superior electric VTOL aircraft. If you enjoy solving
difficult problems, and seeing your ideas and visions expressed in
flight hardware, we want you on our team.Job Overview:Overair is
seeking an experienced Airframe Design Engineer to take ownership
of significant parts of the composite aircraft structure. Qualified
candidates will be responsible for overseeing, designing,
developing, and analyzing composite and metallic parts and
assemblies for the aircraft primary and secondary structure. This
role requires the candidate to thrive in a high paced environment
and be comfortable with the design, development, and test life
cycle of rapid aerospace R&D. This role will include
interfacing with engineering management, certification authorities,
operations, external suppliers, and fellow design engineers, so
strong communication and inter-personal skills are required.Roles
and Responsibilities:
- Generate and evaluate conceptual layouts for primary and
secondary aircraft structure
- Includes fuselage, wings, nacelles, blades, landing gear
- Define key system requirements and take ownership of them
through the design life-cycle
- Collaborate on internal design standards and methodologies
- Design composite parts and assemblies for primary and secondary
flight structures
- Create CAD parts and assemblies, create drawings for
manufacture, assembly instructions
- Perform initial sizing of composite parts, components, and
assemblies
- Hand calculations, spreadsheets, initial FEA/FEM
- Review other composite designs and drawings
- Review for design intent, sizing, and manufacturability
- Support structural test efforts (ground and flight)
- Mentor other design engineers and analystsRequired
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 4 years of professional industry experience
- BS, MS, or PhD in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or
related field
- Extensive composite design aptitude and analytical mindset and
a track record of composite part design in aerospace weight
critical applications
- Extensive experience designing critical composite structural
components, which have been sized for strength, stiffness, fatigue,
damage tolerance, or combination thereof
- Extensive understanding of composite design fundamentals and
analysis methods for structures, assemblies, and joints
- Deep knowledge in composites manufacturing in aerospace
applications
- Highly experienced in 3D CAD and model setup using 3DExperience
(preferred), CATIA V5/V6, SolidWorks or equivalent
- Highly skilled in generating composite ply definitions using
3DExperience (preferred)
- Engineering leadership experience and mentoring other
engineers
- Experience supporting ground and flight testing of complex
systems
- Experience with design, analysis, and verification of certified
composite aircraft structures e.g. 14CFR Part23/CS-23 or
equivalentDesired Qualifications
- Extensive Experience with finite element analytical tools such
as HyperMesh, OptiStruct, Nastran, ANSYS or similar
- Experience with composite inspection (NDI) techniques and
methods
- Familiarity with composite material allowables generation and
test programs
- Prior experience preparing certification plans and reports, and
interacting directly with FAA specialists or Designees, is highly
desirable
- Experience with high rate composites manufacturing methods
(fiber placement, resin transfer molding, compression molding,
thermoplastics)Summary of Benefits:
- Medical – Company provides no cost Medical coverage for
employee and all dependents.
- Dental & Vision – Company pays for 80% of Dental and Vision
coverage for employee and 50% for each dependent.
- Company-Paid Life Insurance plan
- 12 weeks of supplemental Paid Family Leave
- 401(k) plan – Employee eligible on first day of work, 6%
Company-match, no vesting period.
- Paid Time Off:
- Vacation: 4 weeks/year
- Holiday: 10 days/year
- Sick Time: 48 hours/year
Keywords: Overair, Santa Ana , Aircraft Structures Design Engineer, Engineering , Santa Ana, California
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