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Roxel is an Anglo-French company that designs, develops and manufactures solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £100M and nearly 1000 staff.

The UK operations are entirely based at Summerfield, Kidderminster, where we currently have a vacancy for an experienced Senior Stress Engineer to work within the rocket motor design team.

Relevant experience in rocket motor design and modelling is not expected but knowledge of the defence industry would be considered advantageous, candidates interested in moving into this growing and exciting field are encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will work as part of the wider Roxel team on all phases of the project life cycle including research, design, demonstration, development, production and customer support.

Technical Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities

The successful candidates will be the structural technical authority for several rocket motor products. Specific areas of responsibility will include conducting Finite Element Analysis (baseline software is Abaqus) of rocket motor hardware (metals, rubber/rigid insulants, bondlines) and the solid propellant charge. Support and training will be provided for the successful candidate, to fill any gaps in knowledge and experience. Responsibilities include:

• Stress analysis of rocket motor systems and components such as motor hardware and propellant charge under various loading conditions to support product Design, Development and Qualification. Typical analysis tasks are:
• Linear / Non-linear static analysis
• Transient thermomechanical analysis
• Vibration analysis
• Fatigue analysis
• Viscoelastic analysis

• Abaqus
• Altair-Hyperworks
• Fortran
• Python/Matlab/Mathcad
• Development of rocket motor structural test plans and involvement in the delivery and assessment of the structural testing results to support model validation and product certification.
• Responsible as the structural performance technical authority aspects of assigned projects, including supporting project meetings, project investigations, design reviews, and corresponding with the customer community.
• Delivery of key project certification documentation such as structural design records and qualification reports.
• Responsible for keeping updated with industry technical innovations and changes, building on their expertise, and acting as the technical lead of new technology research programmes.
• For experienced applicants applying for senior/principal stress engineering positions part of the role will involve peer review of others work and mentoring and training to aid colleague development.
  
  

• Educated to degree level in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering or another related discipline such as Material Science with FEA experience.
• Proficiency in the use of FEA Software (preferably Abaqus)
• Proficiency with the Microsoft office package, particularly Word, Excel and Access.
• Material science knowledge (In particular metals, composites, viscoelastic materials, adhesives)
• Experience with CAD modelling and Altair-Hyperworks would be considered an advantage
• Basic programming ability in at least one language
  
  

• Interest in advanced engineering and science
• Problem-solving skills
• Critical thinking
• Decision making
• Proficient and confident communicator
• Interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation
• The ability to commit to delivering tasks on time
• Professional work output standard
• Team player
• Ability to multitask
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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