The company:
Williams’ core competencies are the design and development of racing cars to compete in the Formula One World Championship. As one of the world's leading Formula One teams, the company has secured 16 FIA Formula One World Championship titles since its foundation in 1977 and is now moving into an exciting era under new ownership defined by relentless innovation and living sustainable performance in every dimension.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a FEA Tools Development Engineerto join our F1 Structures group.
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring our Structural Analysis tools are at the forefront of technology enabling us to deliver the best, safe, high performant components to the racing car.
As aFEA Tools Development Engineeryou will be:
Creating automation processes for developing the FEA understanding to writing scripts to automate the task
Speeding up our development cycle to deliver higher performance to the track in less time.
Investigating new simulation tools and guide the engineers through their implementation.
Providing technical support to the Structures Engineers through all stages of analysis.
Developing a library of codes for pre- and post-processing tools to improve our FEA analysis capability.
Assisting with development of new analysis tools and improving efficiency of existing calculation methods.
Our ideal candidate is someone who has:
Familiar with FEA analysis of structural components in metals and composites.
A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering discipline.
Experience in optimisation, fatigue and progressive failure software.
Programming skills with Python. Experience of C++ would also be an advantage.
An understanding of job queuing systems and management.
A basic understanding of computational fluid dynamics.
The ability to engage, inspire and support individuals to build and maintain a high-performance team culture.
Strong organisational skills with the ability to clearly prioritise tasks and deliver to agreed deadlines.
This role is pivotal to the success of our engineering process and will give the successful candidate exposure to the F1 development programme.
What can Williams offer?
The Williams Group is based in multi acre complex located in Grove, Oxfordshire. The Williams Group offers a competitive holiday package, staff events/open days, a subsidised restaurant on site and various car schemes. We have an on-site gym (open 24 hours a day) as well as various fitness classes including outdoors bootcamps, pilates and yoga free for all staff and contractors to use. Aside from these benefits we can offer free onsite parking and large open green spaces to unwind during breaks. We are a based just 30 mins from Oxford City Centre by bus.
Williams is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments
