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Job Title: Chief Structural Engineer

Job Description

Seeking a highly experienced and confident Chief Structural Engineer to lead engineering efforts across U.S. and Canadian operations. This role is critical to driving technical excellence, resolving engineering challenges, and supporting business development initiatives.

Responsibilities

+ Review non-conformance reports and identify and address design issues.

+ Collaborate assertively with design engineering teams.

+ Drive product readiness from design to production and streamline in-house engineering processes.

+ Contribute to proposals and customer-facing technical discussions.

+ Act as a technical authority across structural, stress, and design engineering.

+ Manage liaison and manufacturing engineers.

+ Solve complex engineering problems and resolve technical issues.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

+ 10+ years of engineering experience in aerospace.

+ Strong experience in structural analysis, stress analysis, FEA, and airworthiness analysis.

+ Experience across design, sustaining, and manufacturing engineering.

+ Ability to review and analyze non-conformance reports.

+ US Person status as defined by ITAR and maintain eligibility for access to military bases.

+ Proven leadership and confident decision-making skills.

+ Authoritative technical presence with strong communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Current or former DER or DAR certification.

Work Environment

This position is onsite with 4 trips per year to Canada and 4 customer visits per year to domestic and foreign military bases.

Work schedule consists of a 4-day work week from Monday to Thursday.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $140000.00 - $160000.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Brooksville,FL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 7, 2025.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email [email protected] (%[email protected]) for other accommodation options.