- Lead for steam turbine service projects, covering rotating equipment, stationary components, blading, sealing, and piping, for the Siemens Energy large steam turbine fleet. This support may also cover OOEM service opportunities.
- Responsible in developing new repair designs or implementing standard repair methods.
- Responsible for execution of repair orders, including product definition, shop and field inspection requirements, repair, assembly, and installation.
- Develop and release for manufacture all product definition documents including graphics, bill of materials, and process specifications as well as provide design disposition of field and shop inspections and deviations.
- Provide shop follow support for turbine repair equipment manufactured in Charlotte or other manufacturing facilities.
- Lead engineering studies for component life assessment, and other engineering analysis requests.
- Support field service engineers and customers in forced outage recovery programs and root cause investigations.
- Support marketing/tendering on future steam turbine service opportunities.
- Support or lead R&D activities within service engineering or the Charlotte manufacturing factory.
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent from accredited university/college
- Five or more years of related engineering work experience. Candidates with more years of experience can be considered for a higher level or vice versa.
- Design experience with strength of materials, structural analysis, and machine design. Ability to design using finite element analysis tools is desired.
- Project or team leadership experience with demonstrated delivery of work in a technical environment. Ability to manage numerous projects and deadlines.
- Ability to lead / interact with teams to obtain consensus in developing designs and repair processes.
- Excellent leadership, organisational change, and communication skills required to work with customer, field and factory personnel, engineering teams, and management in multiple sites and, or countries.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally, in writing, and in technical presentations to customers or management.
- Knowledge and experience in design and, or repair of products.
- Ability to use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
- Experienced user of SAP and TeamCenter or other, similar IT platforms
- Experienced with finite element analysis using Ansys, Abaqus, or NX desired
- Design experience with fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mechanical vibrations, creep & fatigue desired
- Familiarity with steam turbine products, or repair methods for major equipment a plus
Service Design Engineer - Charlotte, United States - Siemens Energy
Description
Service Design Engineer
About the Role
Location United States of America North Carolina Charlotte Company Siemens Energy, Inc. Organization Gas Services Business Unit Central Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced ProfessionalA Snapshot of Your Day
The Steam Turbine Design and Repair team you join supports the factory repair of large steam turbines in the Siemens-Energy's north America's fleet, covering Westinghouse, Siemens, Parsons, and Allis Chalmers units. We also support OOEM service opportunities. Within the Siemens-Energy fleet, you will support a wide variety of steam turbine equipment and designs, from vintage equipment to modern New Apparatus equipment. As a design engineer on this team, you will have broad responsibilities to ensure the integrity of the Siemens Energy steam turbine equipment. Your daily tasks will vary depending on the type of repair projects assigned. You will be responsible for all aspects of the repair for the equipment assigned. You will identify repair options, issue manufacturing instructions to the shop, you will interact with shop colleagues as well as our internal and external customers and be responsible for updating records, reflecting the repairs made. This team also supports replacement in kind projects as well as R&D opportunities. With all assigned projects, you will collaborate with a cross-organizational team to satisfy our customers and help Siemens-Energy be the world's top energy sector company.
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What You Bring
Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience