Lead Engineer, Fatigue & Damage Tolerance

Role Overview

• Lead Advanced Structural Analysis: Technically lead the project team for the fatigue and damage tolerance evaluations
• Define Airworthiness & Maintenance Criteria: Establish damage tolerance philosophies, including allowable damage limits, inspection thresholds, and repeat intervals to ensure long-term structural integrity
• Oversee Structural Testing: Plan and analyze fatigue tests across all levels, validating theoretical models with real-world data
• Drive Cross-Functional Certification: Collaborate with Design, Materials, and Stress teams to integrate F&DT requirements into the design phase, ensuring full compliance with regulatory airworthiness standards
• Support Fleet In-Service Solutions: Investigate structural failures and anomalies to determine root causes, while developing and validating effective repair schemes and service bulletins
• Manage Technical Project Deliverables: Define technical scopes, workload sizing, and lead times, ensuring high-quality inputs and the mitigation of technical risks/opportunities
• Strategic Reporting & Governance: Present progress and technical findings in steering ceremonies, providing clear clarification of assumptions and interdependencies to stakeholders
• Continuous Innovation & Method Improvement: Stay at the forefront of industry advancements to improve internal analysis tools, structural health monitoring strategies, and airworthiness limitation frameworks
• In essence, you plan, structure, and deliver technical outputs for your area in Time, Cost and Quality. You guide colleagues and provide technical expertise, supported by senior team members.

Requirements

• You hold a Master's degree / Diploma in Engineering or similar qualifications
• You bring several years of experience in Fatigue & Damage Tolerance and associated Process, Methods & Tools
• You are experienced in technically leading employees
• You enjoy working with many interfaces with different knowledge levels and cultural backgrounds adapting your communication accordingly
• You have a creative data-driven mindset and are motivated to improve the way we work and interact with the world around us (e.g. using AI)
• You have the capabilities to interpret the environmental context and influence decision-making within the company
• Experience in Hyperworks and Python would be a plus
• Fluency in English is mandatory, German is appreciated

Tech Stack

• Python

Benefits

• Attractive salary and special payments
• 30 days paid vacation and extra days-off for special occasions
• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great international, group wide development prospects
• Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, transportation subsidy, employee benefits at cooperating companies
• On-site-facilities: Kindergarten close to the site, medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen and cafeteria
• Compatibility of family & work (job sharing, part-time models, flexible working hours, individual timeout)
• Working in a diverse environment, with more than 140 nationalities, where every voice is heard