Lecturer in Aircraft Structural Design

3 days ago


Cranfield, United Kingdom Cranfield University Full time

Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £48,039 to £57,797 per annum with potential progression to £70,000 per annum

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and ambitious individual with industry or academic experience to join our Aircraft Structures team.

About the Role

The Centre for Aeronautics is seeking a talented and ambitious Lecturer in Aircraft Structures. This role involves developing and delivering high-quality postgraduate teaching in aircraft structures analysis and design, managing academic courses, supervising postgraduate research and design projects, and engaging with industrially sponsored projects.

About the Centre

Founded in 1946, the Centre for Aeronautics has a rich history of preparing engineers for the British aerospace industry. We offer world-class postgraduate MSc courses, support a vibrant PhD community, and provide CPD courses to industry professionals worldwide. Join our team of 45 world-class academics and researchers in fields like aircraft design, aerodynamics, dynamics and control, modelling and simulation, advanced lightweight structures, and sustainable aviation. Our extensive research portfolio with leading aerospace companies ensures cutting-edge academic content.

About You

You will be passionate about aerospace and the value of your specialized topic. Driving progress towards zero emissions aviation will be a personal priority. You thrive in a collaborative environment, taking satisfaction in supporting others through teaching. Professionally, you are curious and creative, seeking new solutions and applying ideas from outside traditional aerospace. Whether you're an academic seeking a postgraduate teaching focus or an industry professional looking for new challenges, you will find a welcoming, supportive, and ambitious team here.

This opportunity is ideal for experienced industrial airframe design and analysis engineers seeking an academic career. Candidates should have significant aeronautical structural analysis and design skills, preferably from an industrial setting. Relevant knowledge includes airworthiness requirements, metallic/composite airframe structures, fatigue and damage tolerance, CAD (CATIA), FEA (NASTRAN/PATRAN), structural stability, aeroelasticity, and structural dynamics. Both industrial and academic backgrounds with significant relevant experience will be considered.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

How to apply                                    

For an informal discussion, please contact Prof Smith (Head of Aircraft Design Group) howard.smith@cranfield.ac.uk

Closing date: 30 July 2024

This role may require you to have the ability to obtain UK Security Clearance.

www.cranfield.ac.uk

£48,039 to £57,797 per annum with potential progression to £70,000 per annum



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