critical parts lifting engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering field with 5+ years of experience


• Experience in materials science, metal fatigue, and fracture mechanics


• Experience with FEA (Ansys, Abacus, etc)


• Data processing, curve fitting, statistical analysis


• Programming skills such as Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, PERL, C++ are helpful

Summary Description:

The Critical Part Lifing analyzes mechanical components and evaluates the life for transportation, transmission, and generation of energy. This role is part of a team supporting the use and manufacture/assembly of a gas turbine engine, with particular emphasis on safety critical components.

Performing the following tasks:

• Generation and Maintenance of Engineering Critical Parts Plans and Life Management Plans


• Low Cycle Fatigue, Crack Growth, High Cycle Fatigue, and Creep analysis


• Perform Risk Assessments


• Testing

Critical Parts Lifing Engineer

• Compared 2D/3D analysis and used multiple performance flight models and corresponding FEA stresses to develop tracking/calibration coefficients for locations of interest in the AE3007 Turbofan compressor and turbine and F136 Joint Strike Fighter Turbofan turbine.


• Generated low cycle fatigue life values using existing flight data and calibration coefficients, including Prognostic Health Monitoring (PHM) of a STOVL mission for the F136 turbine.

·         Created damage value plots by comparing flight lives to FEA declared life and performed sensitivity study at each location of interest to determine most influential factors and a most efficient flight scenario for future FEA mission design.