Our Mission
At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering the way for electric aviation. The VX4, our eVTOL (electric, vertical, take-off and landing), ‘zero emissions’ aircraft will set a new safety standard for how we will navigate the sky.
We won’t realise our mission following the same legacy processes and traditions our predecessors followed, instead, we want to ‘redefine’ aerospace best practices.
We are growing quickly from a prototype business to a scaling SME, and the next few years will be critical to our success and delivering on our ambitious goals of having the VX4 in service by 2030.
What To Expect
Join our Hybrid Powertrain Team based in Bristol/Kemble as a Stress Engineer and help us achieve our mission of pioneering electric aviation. This is a unique opportunity to work with a team responsible for the full hybrid powertrain installation into a brand-new aircraft. You'll join a group of highly motivated professionals passionate about creating robust designs using the latest technology to achieve optimized results.
What you'll do?
As a key member of our Hybrid Powertrain Team, your success will be measured by your ability to:
- Perform high-quality stress analyses to deliver optimized, innovative solutions that meet demanding performance and safety requirements.
- Prepare and present clear, comprehensive stress reports to support engineering decisions and program milestones.
- Collect and compile robust verification and certification evidence to support airworthiness compliance and design validation.
What You'll Bring
- It is essential you have strong aircraft/powertrain design and modelling experience. Ideally this would be from another eVTOL/VTOL company where you have worked on a hybrid system/solution or comparable innovative/novel aircraft projects.
- A deep level of understanding of Fatigue & Damage Tolerance or Crashworthiness & Impact methodologies is essential
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across and up the line, as well as interface effectively with various teams, including Airframe, Systems Engineering, Airworthiness and peers across Power and Controls.
- A pragmatic approach to analysis, understanding when Finite Element (FE) or hand calculations are most appropriate.
- Experience with Hyper Works is advantageous; alternatively, experience with other FEA packages is beneficial.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to focus on and complete detailed tasks in a busy, fast-paced environment.
- Pro-active nature to solving complex problems and challenges
What can you expect from us?
We're on a mission. Where others see limits, we see opportunity, and we work at pace. Working at Vertical isn't your average role but for those seeking a challenge, a flexible, supportive organisation and an incredible team; working here is an opportunity to do the best work of your career.
Our approach promotes ingenuity and courage, while our environment builds success through diligence in safety and being open in the way we work. The only way we're going to assure the next chapter of aviation history is by working as a team, relentlessly, towards our goal.
Our Benefits
Our people matter - we're not going anywhere without them. Which is why our company benefits go beyond the essentials.
- 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
- 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
- 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
- Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
- Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
- Company performance based bonus - rewarding company and individual performance
- Company Share Scheme - open to every Vertical employee
- Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it
- Breakfast on us, every day
We may just be the hardest job you've ever had, but we're confident it will be the most rewarding. Join the team today and help us shape the future of Advanced Air Mobility.
Disclaimer Statement
We encourage you to apply even if you may not have all the experience listed in the advert. We recognise that talent comes in various forms and we are committed to providing opportunities that create an environment of growth, diversity, and inclusion for everyone. As part of our desire to review and make our processes fair, we may ask you questions related to these aspects during the application process. For more information on how we will use your data, see our Legal section.
