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SalaryPOSITION: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
LOCATION: Jupiter, FL.
STATUS: Salary Exempt
JOB SUMMARY
PSM is a world class provider of advanced IGT components, upgrades, and services. We are looking for a talented Mechanical Design Engineer to join our team in providing next generation solutions to our growing customer base.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The essential functions of the job include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design Industrial Gas Turbine components, assemblies and systems to meet Fit, Form and Functional requirements.
- Interface with other technical disciplines such as aerothermal, structural, and manufacturing engineering to develop designs that meet all applicable criteria.
- Analyze components to ensure parts maintain appropriate stress levels and meet life requirements and design criteria. Select materials, coatings, and weld fillers as needed for the applicable temperature and stress levels.
- Review and understand OEM component material, design features, and cooling configurations to understand design intent.
- Assist drafting, configuration management and field service groups with part numbers, assembly numbers, system level configurations, and other configuration related activities for both PSM and OEM hardware.
- Provide technical information and system level configurations for PSM’s upgrade systems to commercial team and customers. facilitate customized solutions based on specific customer engine configurations.
- Work across departments with supply chain, field service and commercial teams for technical support as requested.
- Visit power plants and customer sites during outages in support field service group. Support initial installation of PSM hardware, review of engine run hardware for field durability issues and of documentation of various configurations.
- Support root cause analysis and troubleshooting for engine failures or durability shortfalls.
- Participate in internal discipline related meetings and training sessions, as well as external technical conferences and customer events.
- Travel up t 10% to support customer outages and vendor related activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education & Training
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or related field.
- Emphasis on solid mechanics, vibration or manufacturing is a plus.
- Master’s Degree preferred.
Skills/Experience
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in design and analysis of gas turbine components.
- Experience with rotating and stationary airfoils in high temperature turbine applications.
- Hands on experience with CAD and FEA software (Creo and ANSYS preferred).
- Familiarity with high temperature superalloys used in gas turbine hot sections.
- Knowledge of various manufacturing processes such as investment casting, conventional and advance machining, and application of coatings is preferred.
- Working knowledge of sound drafting practices and ANSI Geometric Tolerancing standards required.
- Candidate must be self-starter with a can-do approach.
- Strong analytical decision-making, verbal and written communications, and interpersonal skills are required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint is required.
- Travel is required on an as needed basis, with ability to perform or direct hands-on field work.
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
