Senior Ground Loads Engineer

Senior Ground Loads Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000435346

Date Posted:

2024-08-15

Location:

USA - Hazelwood, MO

Job Description Qualifications:

The Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) team is seeking is seeking a Senior Ground Loads Engineer located in Hazelwood, MO.

As a member of the BDS Air Dominance Loads & Dynamics Team, you will be part of the larger BDS Flight Systems Engineering Capability team that is directly supporting production and development of aircraft such as F-15, F/A-18, T-7A, MQ-25, and proprietary vehicle programs. The L&D team is looking for an individual with experience in ground loads.

Flight engineers are essential to the development, safety and success of our products and solutions. Each day, they go above and beyond to meet our customers’ overall mission requirements—from initial vehicle concept definition through design, test, validation and in-service support. Your expertise in areas such as Aerodynamics; Propulsion; Guidance, Navigation & Control; and Loads & Dynamics will drive the future of aerospace.

Would you be interested in working on an aircraft carrier to support the unmanned aerial-refueling MQ-25 vehicle? Or flight testing of prototype and production manned and unmanned vehicles? How about creating and running state-of-the-art vehicle simulations of the T-7 Redhawk and supporting flight and ground tests to verify predicted vehicle performance? Or working on teams developing the next generation of tactical aircraft? This is just a small sample of the exciting things our engineers do supporting our government customers and the people of the U.S. military.

The Flight Systems Engineering Capability is an exciting organization in Boeing Defense, Space & Security responsible for performing Flight Engineering across a large portfolio of products and development programs. Product areas within the Flight Systems Capability in the St. Louis region include Fighter Aircraft, Unmanned Aircraft, and Missiles/Weapons Systems. The set of specialized capabilities and skills maintained by our teammates are the foundation of what defines the majority of our Boeing products; things that FLY! The St. Louis region is continuing to grow, and Flight Engineering is looking for motivated, talented engineers to join the Boeing team on the exciting programs located in this region. Selected candidates will work a wide range of programs that will require design, analysis and testing in Flight disciplines to meet our customers' requirements.

Join our team and become a Flight Engineer with unmatched opportunity and potential; you’ll be supported to develop and maintain specialized skills that may be applied across multiple product domains. You’ll benefit from exposure to a variety of unique and challenging projects, and collaborate closely with other engineering disciplines and industry experts. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

Position Responsibilities:

• Leads in developing air vehicle design criteria for ground loads
• Collaborates with the airframe & subsystems design and analysis engineers to generate integrated aerodynamic, structural, and landing gear models for flight vehicle analysis consistent with a Model Based Engineering (MBE) environment
• Performs ground loads analyses (ground handling, taxi, takeoff & landing, etc.) to support air vehicle design and stores integration
• Defines allowable flight envelopes and operational limits
• Develops flight and ground test plans
• Creates finite element and multi-body dynamics models and correlates to test results
• Executes ground and flight test programs by the development of test requirements, providing data for pre-test analysis, monitoring testing, data analysis and documenting results, in order to support design and verification of vehicle and components
• Reviews and approves airframe and subsystems hardware packages for airworthiness and to ensure the air vehicle meets the service environment
• Provides data to support the definition and documentation of structural design requirements for the service life of the product, to ensure company, customer and regulatory requirements are met
• Presents engineering to management and customers during program level reviews and other technical meetings
  This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.