Stress Analyst

Employer description

Standard Job Description
The Stress Analysis Engineer will take charge of moderate to complex structural analysis projects, help guide junior analysts, and support the technical side of propulsion subsystem stress work. They’ll connect the detailed finite‑element models with design reviews, making sure the stress checks hit the program’s performance, reliability, and safety goals.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Conduct stress analysis using linear and nonlinear solutions to define and evaluate missile propulsion subsystem and components from early concept through flight.

• Review and provide constructive feedback on models, reports, and deliverables.
• Partner across a multidisciplinary engineering team to ensure structural integrity throughout the product lifecycle and guide design trades and decisions.
• Define and support structural test requirements, provide predictions, oversee test execution, and lead post-test activities to ensure requirements and objectives are met.
• Prepare and present technical findings with clarity and confidence to internal teams, customers, and program leadership at key design reviews and technical forums.
• Deliver high-quality analysis products and documentation.

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. 

Basic Qualifications
• Professional experience performing stress analysis of metallic structures
• Experience participating in multidisciplinary design reviews

• Experience using finite element tools (NX/Nastran, Abaqus, Ansys, FEMAP, or PATRAN)

Desired Skills
• Master’s degree in Aerospace, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience in the planning and execution of structural development and qualification testing

• Experience with Thermo-Structural analysis of high temperature alloys such as propulsion related hardware, jet and rocket engines, heat shields, solid or liquid rocket propulsion including hot gas systems, or any supporting or adjacent high temperature hardware
• Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal
• Self-motivated, and able and willing to support multiple projects

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $95900.00 - $178100.00

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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.  

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.