Advanced Fatigue & Structural Integrity Engineer - KTP Associate

Fixed term for 16 months

Full time: 37 hours per week

Closing date: 15/11/26 at 23:30

As part of an Innovate UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Sheffield Hallam University and Leonardo Helicopters, you’ll lead a project to introduce and embed advanced multiaxial fatigue assessment methods into Leonardo’s structural design and certification activities.

The project will integrate specialist fatigue-analysis approaches with existing finite element workflows to improve the assessment of fatigue-critical helicopter components.

This appointment carries a range of benefits including:

• A generous training and personal development budget, with allocated time to further develop your technical skills.
• Gaining experience in managing and delivering a high-profile project for the company.
• Automatic inclusion in our pension scheme.
• The opportunity to register for a higher degree for which tuition fees will be waived (if applicable).
• Explore collaborative research opportunities with the academic and industrial supervisors based on project findings. 

The project offers an excellent opportunity to develop specialist expertise in fatigue, structural integrity and rotorcraft engineering while working within a world-leading engineering organisation.

The Company Partner Leonardo Helicopters are a global high-tech company and one of the world’s leading organisations in aerospace, defence and security. Leonardo Helicopters’ Yeovil site is a major UK centre for rotorcraft engineering, design, development, manufacture and support.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit here. 

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international applicants in this role; this will depend on a number of factors specific to the individual applicant.  You are advised to assess your eligibility against the criteria set out in the UKVI Guidance before applying.

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