Lead Stress Engineer in West Bromwich

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran Seats is one of the world's leading manufacturers of aircraft seats, for both crew and passengers. 1 million Safran Seats-manufactured aircraft seats are currently in service with air fleets around the world.

Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you-both in and out of work, including:

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Industry leading pension scheme with salary sacrifice employer contributions up to 10%
• Private medical cover (to include Digital GP and rapid access Physio with no excess) with ability to upgrade level of benefit and cover family members
• Access to salary sacrifice benefits scheme including cycle to work
• 4 x Life Assurance
• Interactive benefits platform including wide range of discretionary benefits including technology, retail benefits, income protection
• Enhanced family friendly policies and benefits (enhanced maternity and paternity leave) and employee assistance programme
• Annual share save schemes
• Opportunities for career advancement and personal growth
• Benefit from support through Safran University and our internal Training and Development Schools

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 joining a team with real, fast paced development, for both you and the products and projects you will be working on. Unlike some roles across Aerospace, at Safran Seats you will see your designs and projects become reality as the project lifecycle of First and Business Class aircraft seating is constantly developed and refreshed. This is because we work directly with the Airlines to bring cutting edge, state of the art aircraft interiors to life. You will be using your Engineering core skills daily, from hand calculations to building and running FEA models of design iterations to prove and certify these impressive products.

As we have roles at multiple levels don't be put off if you don't tick every box, for Senior and Lead roles we would be looking for Dynamic simulation skills but if you just have experience in Static simulation we still have roles for you.

What You'll Bring:

• Engineering qualifications which provide you with the knowledge to work from 1st Principles
• The ability to hand calculate 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 like; 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

• Knowledge of working to industry standards and codes
• Knowledge of Part 25 (EASA/FAA) and Boeing / Airbus specifications
• Knowledge of ACs, ARPs and Aerospace Standards
• Knowledge of Aerospace Material Standards and Material or component test standards and post-processing methods (e.g. ASTMs and B-Basis calculations)
• Project Management experience
• Ability to programme VBA, Python or similar language