Senior Engineer FEA

At Aker Solutions we are changemakers with nearly 200 years of experience, driven by collaboration and curiosity. Power Solutions, a segment within Aker Solutions, is at the forefront of exploring new markets. Building on our product development and fabrication expertise from subsea oil & gas history, we are now further expanding our ambitions into the growing defense market.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer FEA to join our Power & Controls Engineering department in Tranby. The offices are centrally located 10 minutes from Drammen and 30 minutes from Oslo.

In this role, you will take a senior specialist position within mechanical and structural analysis, contributing advanced FEA competence to defense projects and supporting robust, safe, and well‑documented design decisions in a regulated environment.

What will you be doing?

• Provide senior mechanical and structural finite element analysis (FEA) expertise for machine components and assemblies.
• Acts as a technical authority within analysis, ensuring designs meet strength, fatigue, dynamic, and safety requirements for defense and serial production.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of mechanical and structural detail concepts.
• Develop optimal design solutions in close collaboration with the project team.
• Perform and lead advanced mechanical FEA of machine components and structures.
• Verify designs against mechanical, safety, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Define modelling strategies, load cases, and assumptions for complex analyses.
• Produce, review, and maintain clear and traceable analysis reports supporting design decisions.
• Support design reviews, qualification activities, and technical risk‑reduction initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with mechanical design, systems, and manufacturing teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers within the analysis discipline.