Senior Heat Transfer and Turbine Cooling Engineer

Senior Heat Transfer and Turbine Cooling Engineer

About the Role

Location United States of America Washington Redmond Company Siemens Energy, Inc. Organization Transformation of Industry Business Unit Compression Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

We are looking for a skilled Heat Transfer Engineer to join our Turbo-cracker Technology group in Seattle, WA, and work with the rest of the team to advance the product through development and application.

Siemens Energy operates a Better Together hybrid working model of typically 3 days in-person attendance per week to ensure effective collaboration with colleagues whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Collaborating with Aerodynamics, Mechanical Design and Mechanical Integrity disciplines to collectively derive component life including duty based living.
• Thermal analysis of turbomachinery components and systems from concept definition through detailed design, focusing first on prototype development and then on future product definition
• Analyzing and adapting turbine blade, vane, and casing cooling design for new products and upgrades.
• Specifying component and turbo-machine test requirements.
• Calibration of thermal models using turbo-machine test data
• Dissemination of information by report and presentation.
• Tool chain integration and other delivery improvement initiatives.
• Producing and maintaining method documents.
• Testing and validation of internal and commercial code upgrades.
• Supervising and reporting achievements against technical and schedule objectives
• Actively supply to small, focused design teams to support technology and product development project objectives

What You Bring

• Advanced degree ( in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering with significant content of Automotive, Aerospace or Turbomachinery Heat Transfer / cooling / sealing design and minimum 5 years experience.
• Experience in 2D / 3D thermal analyses of stationary and rotating turbomachinery components with emphasis on the analysis of expanders and / or turbine hot section.
• Good analytical skills and the ability to perform detailed investigations, with focus on accuracy and timescales. Able to critique and validate own results using 1D methods hand calculations.
• Thorough understanding of Heat Transfer theory and a keen interest in continuous personal development in the subject. Knowledge of heat transfer in transonic and supersonic flows is a plus.
• Experienced knowledge in the application of commercial FEM and / or CFD analysis for fluid flow and heat transfer ANSYS or ABAQUS.

Experience with Siemens NX / Simcenter 3D plus CFD software StarCCM, CFX or Fluent is an advantage.

• Experience in product design
• Knowledge of API design standards for compressors, gas turbines, and expanders is a plus
• Technical capability in turbomachinery subject areas (aerodynamic, thermodynamics, dynamics, machine design)
• Able to work both independently and in a multidiscipline team with effective communication and social skills
• Understanding the basics of investment castings manufacture, materials science, secondary air systems, the origins of stress and creep.
• Availability to travel domestically or international as required up to 15%.
• 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.