Mechanical Components Engineer

Based in Houston, the Core Standard Components team focuses on foundational components such as valves, seals, fasteners, and flanges that are shared across product groups.

Team Overview

Core Standard Components are foundational components that are shared between two or more product groups, such as valves, seals, fasteners, and flanges. The team is responsible for maintaining this suite of foundational technologies to ensure reliable and repeatable performance across product lines. Primary scopes are valves and seals, which are designed, tested, and maintained, as well as fasteners, chokes, flanges, and other core building‑block components. The team leads development and onboarding of these technologies, supports their implementation on customer projects, and drives standardization.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for engineering execution of technical projects, meeting internal and client requirements while managing deliverables, budgets, schedules, and customer interfaces.
• Ensure all product aspects comply with client specifications and relevant industry standards.
• Lead design of new core standard components, including concept development, engineering calculations, drafting oversight, and qualification test fixture design.
• Maintain existing core standard components by simplifying designs, standardizing parts, improving manufacturability, and reducing lifecycle cost.
• Oversee qualification (prototype) testing of components to meet customer, internal, and industry requirements.
• Lead design reviews for core standard components.
• Write technical documentation such as test procedures, assembly procedures, engineering test reports, design calculation reports, and FEA reports.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, providing technical support to supply chain, manufacturing, quality, project management, and other product groups.
• Provide product support to field personnel and customers.
• Perform all work safely in line with company health and safety guidelines.
• May supervise, train, develop, motivate, and guide subordinate personnel; guide and coordinate efforts of drafters and technologists.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in mechanical engineering.
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• Thorough understanding of machining, manufacturing, and hydraulic drawings.
• Strong grasp of classical stress calculations.
• Knowledge of API 6A and API 17D.
• Experience with valves, seals, fasteners, small‑bore tubing, or chokes.
• Strong organization and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SAP, MathCad, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, and FEA tools (Ansys or Abaqus).
• Familiarity with subsea production system design codes and specifications (IOGP S‑561, ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, NORSOK, etc.).
• Understanding of subsea production systems (subsea trees, manifolds, jumpers, wellheads, controls).
• Experience with 8D problem‑solving, fishbone diagrams, or similar root‑cause investigation tools.
• Experience performing product qualification tests.