Job Description
Job Title: Critical Parts Lifing Engineer
Industry: Defence
Years of Experience: 3 to 15 years
Why Rolls-Royce
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, youll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
Summary:
Exciting opportunities for Critical Parts Lifing Engineer have arisen to influence and shape the future of the Defence business in India. The roles involve working with business and external stakeholders to support the delivery of key programme milestones thus enabling the delivery of our Defence Combat strategy.
Critical Parts Lifing Engineer (stress lifing) ensure the integrity of our products. They work across a wide variety of Critical Part Components such as discs, blisks , drums, mainline shafts and stub-shafts. They predict the mechanical behaviour of components and sub-systems taking into account various failure mechanisms (e.g., proof, ultimate, fatigue (low high cycle), creep etc.) and contributing factors (e.g., vibration, thermal induced loads, inherent manufacturing anomalies, corrosion, extreme operating conditions such as over-speed etc.). The role of a Critical Parts Lifing Engineer includes being influential at all stages in the design cycle, through the products service life to component disposal.
Responsibilities:
- Perform analytical assessments (stress, lifing) to support new design concepts, and maintain support to in-service operations.
- Apply appropriate tools and methods, ranging from hand calculations to analytical design space exploration/optimisation, with an emphasis on simplicity.
- Work as part of a multi discipline teams to ensure new designs are fit for purpose.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in tools, methods and processes and support capability team in development and deployment of enhanced capability.
- Define plans for analysis tasks; working with key stakeholders to ensure all work meets customer expectations and is completed to an agreed quality standard.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters in Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering. Other qualifications, in combination with relevant experience, may also be considered.
- Knowledge and experience in Critical Part component lifing methods and analyses e.g. LCF, HCF, damage tolerant/crack propagation (deterministic probabilistic), corrosion, rotor integrity (disc burst, rim peel blade release), or has keen interest in developing such skills at pace.
- Proficient in the use of 2D 3D finite element stress analysis tools (e.g. SC03/ Abaqus/ ANSYS/ NASTRAN) in elastic, inelastic, thermal-mechanical, contact and frictional assessments.
- Ability to effectively communicate the methods and results of complex analyses to peers, senior colleagues and external organisations such as customers or regulatory bodies.
- Highly numerate with strong technical and analytical skills, problem-solving ability and capable of systems level thinking.
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, and will need to be able to contribute effectively in a team environment.