Thermal FEA/Senior Thermal FEA Engineers

AWE currently has exciting opportunities for Thermal FEA and Senior Thermal FEA Engineers with varying degrees of experience.

Thermal FEA/Senior Thermal FEA Engineers

Location - Reading/Basingstoke area

Closing date: March 23rd 2023

Package - £38,000 - £65,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
• Life Assurance
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site
• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)
• Potential opportunities to travel with work for conferences and collaboration (optional)

This role sits within the Engineering Analysis Team who provided FEA services across the entire business and lifecycle of our products. The analysis projects you will work on are Interesting and varied and may include:

• Non-linear steady state and transient thermal

• Radiant & Convective enclosures

• Material Phase change

• Thermo-Fluid Dynamics

• Multi physics coupling inc. CHT and thermo-structural

In addition to day-to-day analysis tasks, other responsibilities may include:

• Interacting with stakeholders & translating customer requirements into analysis deliverables

• Communicating analysis results through production of clear, concise reports & presentations

• Applying model V&V techniques whilst adhering to quality assurance procedures

• R&D of new and novel techniques in the field of engineering simulation

• Technical leadership and mentoring of junior analysts

• Representing the wider business at national and international conferences

We would love to hear from individuals with a degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering (or similar). Experience in one or more of the following would be beneficial:

• Commercial FEA codes, particularly ANSYS, ABAQUS and LS-DYNA

• Commercial pre-processors such as Altair HyperMesh and ANSYS Workbench

• Testing techniques used to obtain thermal material property data

• Experimentation for the acquisition of model validation data

• PLM and CAD systems - Siemens Teamcenter and NX are particularly desirable

• Linux based HPC systems and batch submission systems

• Use of Python scripting to automate models and analyse data

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.

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