Join Airbus as a Senior Static Stress Engineer in Krakow, Poland. In this permanent, full-time role within the Design Office, you will lead stress certification, structural justification, and airworthiness support for commercial and military pylon and engine mount programs.
Requirements
Master's degree in Aeronautical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience (typically 7+ years) in stress analysis of aircraft structures.
In-depth knowledge of metallic material behavior, airworthiness regulations (EASA, FAA), and aircraft manufacturing processes.
Fluency in English is required.
Knowledge of tools such as Nastran, Hypermesh, ISAMI, and Abaqus is an advantage.
Skills & Responsibilities
Stress Analysis: Apply expertise in metallic materials and tools like Nastran or Abaqus to perform calculations, create stress dossiers, and deliver static certification stress reports.
Airworthiness & Production Support: Ensure fleet airworthiness and support manufacturing by justifying design modifications and signing production concessions.
Community Leadership & Capitalization: Drive the up-skilling of the stress community and ensure proper knowledge capitalization within the design office.
Stakeholder Management: Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams including aerodynamics, loads, systems, and customer services to meet project goals.
Potential transition routes: People from aerospace structural design or mechanical engineering roles may bring relevant stress analysis and finite element modeling skills, alongside meeting the required background in aircraft structures.
Job description
Job Description:
As part of Airbus’s ambition to grow a proficient and competitive Engineering organisation, we are launching a Commercial Aircraft Engineering Centre in Poland. This initiative aims to leverage Poland’s talent pool and technological ecosystem, specifically in the field of Propulsion systems, while supporting our broader Engineering workload and competitiveness requirements, and reinforcing Airbus’ strategic engagement with Poland.
Role Overview
You will join the Design Office in charge of the design, integration, and support of pylons and engine mounts for all our commercial and military programs.
The Environment:
You will gain an end-to-end understanding of the product life cycle, from production support to in-service topics, reinforcing the concrete impact of your work.
Multidisciplinary Collaboration: close collaboration with numerous partners (aerodynamics and loads, systems, manufacturing, customer services, etc.).
Future Challenges: We are actively involved in defining future components and the decarbonization roadmap. Our mission involves advanced projects and continuous product improvement (recurring cost, weight, ramp-up, operability).
In this frame, the engineering domain needs you to improve and develop our products and our dynamic stress structure community.
Key Responsibilities
Justification and Certification:
Actively contribute to Stress certification and maintenance activities : e.g. calculations, Stress Dossiers, SSR (Section Summary Report), IRD (Inspection Requirement Document)
Justify design modifications
Sign concessions in support of production
Ensure airworthiness of the whole fleet, from in production to in service aged aircraft
Support development and certification activities
Community and Knowledge Capitalization:
Be an integral part of the stress community within the design office.
Be accountable for capitalization of knowledge within your perimeter.
Be part of the up-skilling of stress community
Ensure adherence to processes and contribute to their continuous improvement (feedback based on activity).
Develop your signatures rights (DOA / Design Organisation Approval)
Main Deliverables:
static certification stress dossiers.
Modification Structural Justification.
Stress Summary Report
Production support (concessions).
Capitalization cards and transformation subjects.
Airworthiness support.
Workload estimation / Budget plan (support).
The Ideal Profile
Education & Experience
Master's degree in Aeronautical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience (typically 7+ years) in stress analysis of aircraft structures, with significant experience
In-depth knowledge of metallic material behavior and associated stress analysis
Familiarity with airworthiness regulations (EASA, FAA) and certification processes.
Strong understanding of aircraft design, manufacturing processes, and structural testing.
Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary and international team environment.
Fluency in English is required.
Technical Competencies
Knowledge of tools such as Nastran, Hypermesh, ISAMI, Abaqus would be a significant advantage.
Soft Skills
Leadership and good communication and listening skills
Curiosity, and problem solving oriented mindset
Autonomy and team spirit
Stakeholders management skills
Why Join Us?
Impactful Work: Directly contribute to developing, certifying, and maintaining the airworthiness of commercial and cargo fuselages.
Career Opportunities: Access tailored mentorship programs, continuous upskilling, and global career opportunities.
Join a great team: Become integral part of a highly energetic and dynamic team, serving a greater, meaningful purpose and enjoying work.
Not a 100% match? If you bring solid fundamentals in airframe stress and a strong drive to learn, we encourage you to apply!
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Company: Airbus Helicopters Polska Sp. z o.o.
Employment Type: Permanent -------
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Structure & Dynamic Systems Analysis
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