Senior Structural Dynamics Engineer

2 weeks ago

Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Prodrive Full time

About This Opportunity


We are seeking a Senior Structural Dynamics Engineer to join our Verification and Validation team at Prodrive. As a key member of this team, you will be responsible for providing concept and design development services to our Integrated Project Solutions team and Engineering Delivery team.


Key Responsibilities



  • Derive suitable load cases and targets using first principles and prior experience as well as customer, legislative, and internal documents.
  • Support design work and ensure that proposed design solutions meet required static and dynamic load cases.
  • Execution and development of test activities, including setup, testing, and reporting, to meet the objectives of the project.
  • Work with internal and external stakeholders to negotiate and establish alignment of virtual and physical DV test plans, test specifications, and schedules.
  • Work in multi-discipline teams to deliver to and support other business functions.
  • Technical liaison with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, and internal stakeholders.
  • Work to relevant analysis procedures and record analysis results clearly.
  • Understand your working priorities and clearly show progress, delivery status, and key risks and issues.
  • Lead and develop junior team members.
  • Extend our analysis capability with your specialism (e.g., Structures, Thermal, CFD, MBS).
  • Contribute to continual improvement of analysis processes, analysis tools.
  • Support business development activities and creation of customer proposals.
  • Support project management activities and monitor analysis plans and progress.

About You


We are interested in candidates with selected skills, or a blend of all of the following knowledge, experience, or skills:



  • Statics and structures simulation, such as: FEA crash analysis of automotive vehicle structures, FEA shell and solid modelling of structures, experience with the physics of system behaviour, load paths, expected structural response, and potential failure modes.
  • Dynamic systems and multibody simulation, such as: vibration analysis and isolation, kinematics of mechanisms and design, passenger car and/or commercial vehicle dynamics simulation and calculations.
  • General: experience in Automotive, Motorsport, Aerospace sectors, experience with classical hand calculations and free body diagrams, clearly communicate and articulate technical concepts and ideas, build models from scratch, smartly choose the appropriate analysis techniques and boundary conditions for the problem at hand, balancing speed, accuracy, and ensuring usefulness and appropriateness.
  • Ideally, experience with Altair HyperWorks suite (Motionsolve, HyperMesh, Hyperview, Optistruct, Radioss) We are open to skills in similar packages.

What We Offer



  • An attractive salary which will grow in line with your ongoing development and impact.
  • 25 days holiday (which increases with long service) with an opportunity to purchase up to 15 extra days.
  • Training opportunities for continuing professional development.
  • Onsite subsidised staff restaurant.
  • Car and pension salary sacrifice schemes.
  • Cyclescheme.
  • Exercise classes.
  • Paid time off for volunteering.
  • Consultations with our Fit 4 Life expert.
  • Social events throughout the year.
  • Exclusive company discounts.
  • Life assurance.

We Are An Equal Opportunities Employer.


At Prodrive we are committed to attracting and nurturing the best talent and creating an inclusive workplace. We value individual differences and diversity amongst all staff so that everyone has the widest opportunities to maximise their potential. We aim to ensure that no job applicant is placed at a disadvantage by practices or requirements which disproportionately impact protected groups and which are not justified by the demands of the job. If you feel you are right for this role, we welcome your application.


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