Senior Component Design Engineer - Transmissions

About the role

Join our global Turbomachinery Engineering, Technology & Safety organization as a Senior Component Design Engineer - Transmissions. You will develop complex engineering solutions that meet cutting-edge aerospace functional and physical requirements while ensuring robustness for manufacturing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver new component designs for high-performance gas turbine bearings and seals, including creating design concepts, optimizing concepts to a final definition, preparing technical presentations and documents, performing dimensional analyses, supporting creation of drawings, delivering hardware for validation, and releasing hardware to production.
• Lead investigations of in-service and/or development hardware issues, including failure analysis, root cause / corrective action (RCCA), reporting, and documentation. Share findings with the global turbomachinery team in accordance with export control regulations.
• Present and defend design solutions and technical work to program leadership and other stakeholders.
• Advance the bearing and seal capability through research and technology, education, knowledge management, and consultation.
• Support the supply chain in procuring hardware, including reviewing supplier production method documentation, assessing non-conforming hardware, and reviewing supplier change proposals.
• Lead investigations of in-service and/or development hardware issues, including failure analysis, root cause / corrective action (RCCA), reporting, and documentation. Share findings with the global turbomachinery team in accordance with export control regulations.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in the design, analysis, manufacture and verification of rolling element bearings and advanced aerospace sealing systems, including industry design methods and tools such as Shaberth, ADORE, and ROMAX.
• Experience with aerospace power transmission components and systems, including gearboxes, rolling element bearings, journal bearings, shafts, and seals.
• Experience with computational fluid dynamics analysis methods related to air and oil movement.
• Expertise in dimensional tolerance stack-ups and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) including thermal effects on tolerances.
• Knowledge of gas turbine subsystems and components and their function and operation.
• Expertise in the following software applications: Siemens NX, Siemens Teamcenter, Microsoft Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, with 2+ years of experience in mechanical design, OR Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering, OR JD/PhD in Mechanical Engineering.