About The Role

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.

Minimum 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.