CAE Analysis Engineer

At Prodrive we believe there's no limit to what can be achieved when the brightest minds come together. Joining one focused and driven team, you will challenge boundaries in order to change the game for our customers. Our Advanced Technology business is where we combine our pace and agility with free-thinking to deliver complex engineering solutions and specialist manufacturing programmes to the automotive, aerospace, marine, and defence sectors, accelerating the net zero journey for our customers.

Prodrive AT's specialities are the design; development and production of smart actuation systems, particularly in the Active Aero and Intelligent Interior domains, as well as vehicle-level programmes. Current activity includes multiple automotive Active Aero and Intelligent Interior projects in the smart actuation domain; an L7e urban delivery vehicle and active torque dynamics for military applications at vehicle-level – as well as a variety of other mobility and low-carbon programmes including hydrogen storage and hydrogen fuel cell systems.

We are looking for an experienced Analysis Engineer to join our team to support a variety of projects across our portfolio.

Key responsibilities

• This role is primarily concerned with the successful design and development of structures. Experience and knowledge of fluids, thermal, and kinematics is beneficial
• 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 in multi-discipline teams to deliver and support other specialisms in projects
• Technical liaison with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, and internal stakeholders
• Work to relevant analysis procedures and record analysis results clearly
• Lead and develop junior team members
• Extend our analysis capability with your area of expertise (e.g. Structural, Thermal, CFD, MBS)
• Contribute to continual improvement of analysis processes, analysis tools and techniques

Essential skills/experience

• Educated to degree in relevant engineering subject or equivalent industry experience
• Have demonstrable knowledge, experience, or skills in:
  • Beam, shell and solid modelling of structures
  • Linear and non-linear static analyses, and implicit and explicit solutions
  • Yield theory and plasticity behaviour
  • Fatigue theory, behaviour, and analysis; LCF, HCF, and welds
  • Composite materials theory & analysis
  • Contact modelling
  • Optimisation solutions
  • Having a feel for the physics of a system, load paths, expected structural response, and potential failure modes
• Be proficient with classical hand calculations and free body diagrams
• Clearly communicate and articulate technical concepts and ideas
• Build models from scratch
• Understand the fundamentals of the analysis numerical procedures in your field and their implications
• Plan analysis activities that will address the problem requirements efficiently and robustly
• Have experience and knowledge of what typically goes wrong with the various analysis techniques and processes
• 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 can we offer you?

• 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.

Come and make a difference.