Senior Product Engineer

At Flowserve, working on global infrastructure projects is just another day at the office but it takes the brains and imagination of our more than 19,000 employees to get the job done right. If the solution exists, we'll find it. If it doesn't, we'll create it. Experience, leadership, and creativity are the tools we use to turn an idea into a solution. Together, we enable the world.
Flowserve offers competitive pay, annual bonuses, medical benefits on day 1, generous paid vacation time, paid holidays, 401(k) and many other excellent benefits.
ROLE SUMMARY
In this role, the candidate will be responsible for product line engineering for assigned quarter turn valves. The Senior Product Engineer will deal with issues of product design and manufacturing, sales / quoting support, production costs, feasibility, quality, performance, reliability, serviceability and customized user features. Addressing these product characteristic requires product and component design, development, transitioning of the product to manufacturing, and supporting the sales and service teams in quoting and repairing the product.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead product development and improvement activities addressing manufacturability, material cost, reliability and performance enhancements, coordinating across global engineering product resources as needed.
• Take ownership of engineering design support for assigned valve line, coordinating and enforcing global product design consistency across all operations and sales organizations.
• Ensure engineering design and standards documentation is complete, accurate, and sufficient in support of global manufacturing and quality assurance activities. This includes generating or checking bills of material, manufacturing drawings and sales order drawings.
• Provide technical and customer service support for new customer inquiries, including the design of special products, technical evaluations of project sales quotations, application and troubleshooting assistance, and evaluations of returned goods.
• Implement engineering best practices and Flowserve standards.
• Maintain up-to-date awareness of relevant national, international and industry standards and initiate any product improvements of modifications to ensure the product line meets these requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent degree.
• 7+ years' experience in Product Engineering, particularly on industrial type products in a manufacturing environment.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously utilizing advanced project management tools, methods, and applications.
• Familiarity with and understanding of various International Standards relating to valves.
• Computer-Assisted Design/3-Dimensional design, Solidworks and/or Inventor.
• Engineering analysis using appropriate methods, such as calculation, testing or FEA.
• Capable of reading, interpreting, and creating engineering drawings, especially relating to manufacturability and tolerancing.
• Effective oral and written communications.
• Must have a collaborative style that encourages the flow of communication, removes obstacles, and promotes problem solving and teamwork. Interpersonal communications skills are critical for working with cross-functional departments, customers and vendors.
• Must have high sense of urgency to plan and execute project deliverables to meet schedule milestones. Able to work independently, with organizational skills to establish priorities and drive tasks to completion.

• Experience in industrial process valve design. Specifically, experience with quarter turn valves, such as butterfly, plug or ball valves.
• Experience with castings, forgings and machined components.
• Knowledge of various materials utilized in industrial products, such as steel alloys and non-metallic sealing elements.
• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).
• Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) certification, Green Belt minimum preferred.
• Experience in driving down product cost through tools such as Design to Value, VaVe, etc.
• Mastery level application of advanced engineering processes including CFD, FEA; use of ANSYS preferred.
• Recognition as a qualified engineer by external certifying bodies, as indicated by Professional Engineering license, IMechE, or other Engineering accreditation is a plus.