Senior Finite ElementStructural Analysis Engineer

Role: Senior Finite Element/Structural Analysis Engineer

Location: Czech Republic Prague / On-site

Role ID: 2026-3323

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo member of WSP is a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

As aseniorFinite Element(FE) Analyst your primary role will be to aid the design ofautomotive and industrialproducts such asenginetransmissionbatteryandchassissystemsbyundertakinglinear and nonlinear FE analysisusingAbaqus AnsaandHyperworkstoolsets.This is a lead role to deliver structural analysis activities fromconcept to production design.This will include managing junior team members andliaisingdirectly with our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead analysis taskson medium and largeprojects.

• Apply theoretical knowledge and engineering techniques to the solution of basic analytical engineering problems.

• Buildhigh-fidelityFEmodelsforenginetransmission components andsystemsusing commercial CAE tools based on CAD and other engineering data.

• Conductlinear and nonlinearstatic and dynamic FE analysis.

• Prepare detailed technical presentations for both internal and client project engineering review.

• Interface with internal and external clients to deliver updates designrecommendations and analysis results.

• Perform technical supervision of junior team members.

• Work with proposal leaders to develop scope of work and to estimate resource needs.

• Assistwith techniqueand analysismethodologydevelopment.

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Person Specification

• A deep understanding ofautomotivesystems design load paths and behaviour under various operating conditions.

• Familiar with static and dynamic stiffness linear and non-linear stressfatiguemodal system noise and vibrationanalysis and optimisation. Specialism inall these areas is not essential.

• Ability to definecomponentconcept designs through optimisation and a CAE lead design process.

• Ability to refine designs and perform extensive virtual validationusingdetailed assembly models including interfaces jointspreloads and measured data as appropriate.

• Understanding ofdurabilityand fatigueanalysis andassessments.

Skills/attributes

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Comfortable writing technical reports.

• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word Excel and Power Point.

• Proactive self-motivated and have a good attention to detail.

Experience

• Professional experience performing FE analysis.

• Experience withHyperworksorAnsa pre and post processing software.

• Experience with the Abaqus andOptistructanalysis toolset for implicit FE analysisand fatigue analysis tools such as FEMFATnCode or FE-Safe.

• Experience performing nonlinear static FE and fatigue analysis.

• Experience with at least one commercial CAD package (e.g. Catia Creo NX SolidWorksSpaceClaimetc.)

Qualifications / Experience

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering.

• Advancedexperiencein static and dynamic FE analysis.

• Advancedexperience in fatigueanalysis.

• Advancedexperiencein numerical methods includingmulti-body dynamic /finite difference methods.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity equality and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture we are a recognised as a disability confident employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viaif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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