Job Description

ARi, headquartered in East Peoria, IL, USA, is a rapidly expanding global engineering enterprise. The essence of our “i” symbolizes our distinctiveness from competitors – an embodiment of innovation, intelligence, ingenuity, and insight. Boasting a diverse team of over 1,500 engineering experts hailing from various nations and cultures across the globe, we are excellently poised to provide intricate and personalized resolutions to our esteemed clients.

This team member will lead projects focused on delivering critical component and material performance results, with an emphasis on fatigue testing. They will independently lead certain projects while contributing as a key team member on others. They will collaborate with technicians to develop processes and detailed test procedures to meet the requirements of various client groups.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Project leadership for mechanical testing needs of internal clients.
• Consulting with clients on test needs and deliverables.
• Analysis of how to test components to failure to match expected or observed failure modes.
• Fixture design.
• Instrumentation planning, especially strain gauging of critical specimens for data validation.
• Project planning.
• Coordination work with internal and external providers of material & services.
• Analysis of fatigue test results, including statistical analysis Report writing to summarize results

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or engineering technology.
• Preference is mechanical engineering or materials science.

Required Skills:

• General knowledge of fatigue and fracture mechanics
• Strong technical knowledge of mechanics of materials, including stress strain concepts, and elastic v. plastic deformation.
• Familiarity with instrumentation such as strain gauges, load cells, and LVDT’s.
• General understanding of statistical analysis as applied to fatigue & fracture
• Strong technical writing abilities
• The ability to apply fundamental engineering concepts to a practical problem to devise testing solution and deliver high quality data to our clients.

The Benefits of Working at ARi

At ARi, our commitment to our employees goes beyond the workplace, ensuring comprehensive benefits. From day one, full-time employees enjoy group health, dental, and life insurance coverage. Additionally, vision coverage is accessible starting the following month.

Recognizing the significance of rejuvenation, we provide paid time off, sick days, company holidays, and maternity/paternity leave to our full-time staff. In times of loss, we also offer bereavement support. Furthermore, a

401(k) program is maintained for eligible employees.