Senior Airframe Designer
Dawn Aerospace, Netherlands
Job Description
Dawn Aerospace is recruiting a Senior Airframe Designer to join our Mk-II spaceplane development team in the Netherlands. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to an exciting, fast-growing company in the aerospace industry and develop world-leading technology.
This role will contribute to all project phases for our spaceplane airframes and structures, including design, manufacturing, assembly and qualification. Your experience and good engineering judgement will be valuable contributors to design discussions and trade-offs. Your knowledge in the design/manufacture/test life cycle around composite aircraft parts will be of great value in bringing Dawn's young and dynamic structural team to the next level. You'll get the unique opportunity to work on both suborbital and orbital vehicles.
Responsibilities
- Design and analysis of our reusable launch vehicle system.
- Development of airframe systems and components.
- Requirements identification and definition.
- Work together with other design teams to support the vehicle design process.
- Interface management of vehicle subsystems.
- Support the project management in project planning, scheduling and budgeting.
Requirements
Required experience
- 5+ years of experience in the design of complex aircraft parts.
- Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams.
- A degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or similar.
- Experience with the aircraft design process.
- Experience in composite part construction.
- Experience with computer-aided design, preferably SolidWorks.
- Experience with FEA, preferably ASYS or similar.
- Fundamental understanding of structural theory.
- Ability to complete a design process from requirement to final part assembly.
- Demonstrated ability to flexibly and positively deal with evolving project constraints.
- Ability to filter information to focus on key aspects and maintain and close attention to detail.
Desired experience
- Familiarity with aircraft design standards.
- Familiarity with lightweight engineering.
- Experience in testing components.
- Manufacturing and production experience.
- The ability to share your skills and knowledge with a young growing team.
- Working in a geographically widespread team.
- Demonstrated experience in effectively and appropriately balancing performance, resource use, risk, cost, and schedule.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Multilingual.