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Are you looking for a dynamic, growth-oriented career working with extraordinary people with a mission to provide world-class products and customer service? Rotoflow®, An Air Products Business, may be the place for you!
Rotoflow® is a full-service turbomachinery OEM - providing a wide-range of new equipment solutions and aftermarket services to our customers globally. For over 75 years, Rotoflow® has designed and manufactured both standard and custom-engineered cryogenic and warm gas centrifugal turbomachinery used in market segments such as industrial gases, petrochemicals, and hydrocarbons. Products include compressor loaded turbo-expanders, generator-loaded power recovery expanders, and low-cost dissipative expanders. We offer new equipment designs, rerates, upgrades and repair along with field services, engineering evaluations, reliability, troubleshooting, training, remote diagnostics/data monitoring, shop services, and new equipment replacements for all types of centrifugal and reciprocating equipment. Our customers are served globally through regional service centers supported by both regional and centralized execution teams.
We are seeking a Senior Principal Mechanical Design Engineer responsible for the design, development and project execution of proprietary, high-speed rotating machinery and machinery support systems at our headquarters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Rotoflow® employees enjoy:
Helping to grow a world-class machinery design business,
Being part of an engineering, manufacturing, and business organization developing machinery solutions for our customers,
Tapping into the wealth of technical experience available within Rotoflow® and the opportunity to explore technical interests,
Being part of a team of highly motivated individuals,
Seeing the results of efforts through growth of business,
Collaborating with multi-functional teams across sales, products, execution, engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing on a wide variety of engineering activities with varying technical complexity and scope,
The ability to grow and develop one’s career and take on increasing responsibility.
Responsibilities will include but not limited to:
Perform various turbomachinery design analyses including FEA (stress, deflection, and modal), hand calculations, and rotordynamics,Development of standardized product deliverables collaborating with Product OwnersExecuting mechanical design tasks related to won projects and product development initiatives, support of aftermarket activities and engineering tasks,Communicate with vendors on technical solutions.Support root cause analyses (RCA) of equipment and field commissioning and start up activities executed by the Aftermarket Team,Drive engineering and material cost reductions and competitiveness across project and product offerings collaborating with stakeholders,Collaboration with customers to ensure proper design and integration of equipment into the process,Select components and materials for turbomachinery and systems,Perform safety and operability reviews,Collaborate with various subject areas to finalize equipment designs,Checking and approving manufacturing drawings,Support of bid estimate development,Collaborate with the Business Improvement Team to develop new and standardized design engineering tools and work processes for streamlining projects and product development,Challenge norms with alternate solutions rooted in engineering fundamentals,Promote safety and diversity consistent with the philosophies of Rotoflow®.Qualifications and Requirements:
Technical Degree: BSME or related degree, advanced degree and focus on turbomachinery design, rotordynamics, fluid film bearings, design for manufacturability, and/or manufacturing processes a plus,10+ years turbomachinery or rotating machinery design experience,Detail-oriented, goal oriented, organized, creative, self-motivated, collaborative and customer focused,Excellent analytical, creativity, problem solving, time management, and decision-making skills.Advanced FEA capabilities a plus,Fluid film bearing, gas bearing, magnetic bearing, hydrostatic bearing and rolling element bearing applications and design experience a plus,Rotordynamic analysis capabilities a plus,Turbine testing, data acquisition and data evaluation a plus,2D CAD and 3D modeling and simulation a plus,Equipment start up and plant integration a plus,Programming skills: VB, C#, C+, Python, Matlab, Fortran or similar languages a plus,Excellent interpersonal skills (written, verbal and presentation),Exemplify a passion for winning and ability to motivate teams,Ability to create an environment of trust and consistently exhibit a positive attitude.#LI-KC1
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