Journeyman Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer - 1 Opening
Location: Fort Eustis, VA
Work Arrangement: Primarily onsite
Clearance: Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding
Travel: Up to 25%
Employment: Full-time; contingent upon contract award
Essnova is seeking a Journeyman Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer to provide aircraft analysis, integration, airworthiness, and testing support for U.S. Army aviation research and development projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Support systems-engineering and technical-analysis activities for Army aviation programs.
- Assist with defining technical performance measures for testing and evaluation.
- Support post-test data collection, reduction, analysis, and reporting.
- Develop or support modeling and simulation environments, system architectures, and verification plans.
- Prepare engineering designs, drawings, analyses, and substantiation documentation for the integration of candidate solutions onto Army aviation platforms.
- Support the preparation of aircraft airworthiness-substantiation documentation.
- Develop and execute test plans and procedures for material, component, subsystem, full-system, environmental, electromagnetic, vibration, shock, and structural testing.
- Prepare technical analyses and test reports addressing applicable specifications, aircraft requirements, structural loads, fatigue, vibration, and system performance.
- Support simulations, human-in-the-loop evaluations, laboratory testing, and field testing.
- Participate in technical interchange meetings and present engineering findings.
- Work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
RequirementsMinimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
- Academic preparation must include classical analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue analysis, and finite-life or infinite-life assessment.
- Candidates must meet one of the following combinations:
- Bachelor's degree and at least two years of experience generating aviation and/or research and development test plans, analyses, and technical reports; or
- Master's degree and at least one year of experience generating aviation and/or research and development test plans, analyses, and technical reports.
- Ability to prepare clear engineering analyses and technical documentation.
- Ability to present technical findings at technical interchange meetings and senior-level briefings.
- Active Secret clearance granted by DCSA; Interim Secret is acceptable during onboarding.
- Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
- Ability to travel up to 25% for site surveys, technical meetings, training, testing, and other mission requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Army aviation, military aircraft, rotorcraft, or DoD research and development experience.
- Aircraft integration or airworthiness experience.
- Experience with classical stress analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue analysis, structural loads, vibration, or resonance.
- Experience developing or executing environmental, electromagnetic, structural, vibration, or aircraft-related test programs.
- Familiarity with Army Regulation 70-62 or military aviation airworthiness processes.
- Experience integrating mission equipment or emerging technologies onto aircraft platforms.
- Experience analyzing test data and preparing engineering-substantiation reports.
Contract Requirement
This position supports a federal proposal and is contingent upon contract award. The anticipated staffing level may change during task-order performance based on Government mission requirements.
