ELI - Master Thesist Structure Dept.

Leonardo is an international industrial group and one of the world's leading companies in the Aerospace, Defence, and Security sectors, delivering multi-domain technological capabilities in the fields of Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber Security, and Space. With more than 60,000 employees worldwide, the company has a strong industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, and the United States, and operates in 150 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures, and equity investments. A key player in major strategic programs at the global level, Leonardo is a technology and industrial partner to governments, defence administrations, institutions, and businesses.

Working supporting Structural Analysis Team at our Cascina Costa or Brindisi site and offsite to study and develop research on helicopter structures by providing analytical modeling supported by tests.

As part of the Structures Team you will be responsible for developing structural reasearch solutions in collaboration with other engineering departments and key stakeholders, for our wide product range encompassing conventional helicopters and tilt rotors.

Our analysis team supports both the UK and Italian geographies so although based in Italy there is the opportunity to work on our full product range.

What you’ll do as a Master Thesist in Structure Dept.

You’ll be responsible for coordination, creation and delivery of varied and challenging study and develop research on helicopter structures with the collaboration of Design/Analysis/Certification & Qualification/Manufacturing teams.

Final objective is to build a report of all the research activity as university thesis.

This will be performed with the support of a nominated tutor, internal person in Leonardo Helicopter Structures Dept.

What we need from you to be a successful Structural Analysis Engineer

• The ability to own problems and provide pragmatic solutions to challenging timescales and budgets
• A university knowledge in the analysis of engineering structures
• Knowledge in conventional (hand calculation) and numerical (finite element) techniques for static analysis
• A university knowledge of fatigue and damage tolerance
• A university knowledge of composite materials and analysis principles
• Experience in using MSC NASTRAN (preferable)
• Experience in using Altair HyperMesh (preferable) or Patran (optional)