Sr Screw Compressor Engineer

Senior Engineer

The senior engineer will support the Manager of Screw Compressor Engineering by providing in house technical support and guidance for projects.  Responsibilities for the position includes working with other senior members of the team, providing technical support to purchasing and manufacturing, legacy product support, and new product development and implementation

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain understanding of theories, concepts, technical principles and processes related to mechanical and electrical aspects of screw compressors.

• Model compressor performance under various operating conditions using physics and mechanical models and test data.

• Has proficiency in mechanical design and be able to conceptualize and implement design ideas into the product

• Prepare and help execute test programs to verify performance and reliability of mechanical and electrical sub-components of compressors

• Analyzes, designs, modifies and/or troubleshoots mechanical sub-components and sub-systems based on test data

• Coordinate in compressor prototype builds, qualification of samples and customer samples

• Generates technical documentation and writes technical documents for use within the company

• Initiates test lab data reduction and design of experiments, work closely with test labs to execute plans

• Possesses knowledge of manufacturing processes and applies the philosophy of designing to standard manufacturing processes

• Provide comparative evaluation of potential future compressor designs

• Defines, plans and promotes a complex project into several routine smaller ones

• Reports on the status of the projects

• Provide clear technical direction to designers drafters and review complex 3D models

• Initiates product improvement and cost reduction activities

• Assist in return compressor evaluation and disposition of parts

• Provides technical support to purchasing

• Provides technical support for the plant relative to assembly and test process

• Provides manufacturing support to other entities within the company

• Contributes to the on-time completion of programs and reports on the status of assigned projects

• Strives for continuous improvement and teamwork in a global multi-cultural product development environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Qualified candidate must have a good understanding of theories, concepts, technical principles and processes related to mechanical and electrical aspects of compressors. 

• He or she must be proficiency in mechanical design and be able to conceptualize and implement design ideas into the product.

• BS in Engineering or related science or equivalent

• Minimum 4 Years’ experience in screw and centrifugal compressor design and/or manufacturing, or related experience with other fixed displacement/centrifugal compressors.

• Experience with programing languages like visual basic, python etc.

• Experience with modeling tools FEA, CFD preferred

• Experience in a design and product development environment

• Strong understanding of acoustics and vibration.

• Basic understanding of fundamental business knowledge

• Strong Personal Computing ability with capabilities in MS Office Suite, etc.

• Successful candidate should have good skills in working with others, and will be expected to interface regularly with other design engineers, manufacturing, service and purchasing.

• Moderate domestic and international travel is required.

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