Systems Engineer/Analyst Background

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Challenge test requirements, align on test approach and define test scope with customer.
Lead and coordinates technical activities with the objective of meeting test requirements within the given budget and agreed schedule.
Lead and coordinates technical proposals, quotations, concept work and trade studies related to testing activities.
Support processes and product continuous improvements. Propose market-oriented initiatives to improve existing technologies and testing processes.
Break down the technical requirements to subsystems generating testing specifications for customer, supplier and subcontractors. Tracks the requirements compliance status.
Plan technical testing work packages, e.g. through the Design Development and Verification Plan.
Write and review technical documentation (e.g. Test plan, analysis reports…), project related deliverables and other specifications related to his field of work. Adapt to the product- and mission-specific requirements.
Perform technical risk management and perform Root Cause Analysis.
Provide engineering support to production.
Evaluate and ensure meeting the verification/qualification success criteria. Justify towards the customer.
Represent engineering field during negotiations and reviews with customers and suppliers or subcontractors. Act as test engineering point of contact for customers.

Conduct complex analysis tasks without supervision within Testing:
- Define analysis approaches to investigate mechanical design problems or verify solutions.
- Establish analysis methods and create mathematical models for static and dynamic FE analysis.
- Perform static and dynamic analysis.
- Perform test predictions, test evaluations and correlations.
- Perform detailed stress and strength verification analysis.
Support with expertise from testing during product development, production support, innovation, and project.
Perform technical analysis with the objective of achieving confidence regarding the achievability of given testing requirements with the available testing equipment and facilities.
Prepare test predictions regarding stress, strains and deformation as a basis for the definition of the acceptable load introduction and direction; define expected margins of safety.

University/ETH master’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or similar.
Three years of experience as systems engineer or equivalent lead engineer role in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. stress engineering, thermal engineering, test engineering).
Experience as analysis engineer or equivalent engineer role in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. stress analysis, thermal analysis, test engineering).
- FE Analysis with NASTRAN, Hyperworks and/or Abaqus.
- Detailed stress analysis.
- Mechanical engineering.
Advanced English language skills (reading, writing and speaking), German is a plus.