Lead Mechanical Engineer

At Air Products we reimagine whats possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter we create solutions that launch people into space support lifesaving care in hospitals and enable the construction of groundbreaking world scale production facilities.

Reimagine Whats Possible

Responsibilities will include:

• Perform various turbomachinery design analyses for our most challenging projects and products including FEA (stress deflection and modal) hand calculations and rotordynamics
• Contribute to establishing strategy for the future of our mechanical design systems and design processes and helping to direct strategy towards ensuring our designs cover a maximum range of applications for our products
• Participate in the development of mechanical tools to improve the productivity and accuracy of calculations including collaboration with other engineers and 3rd party commercial software teams
• Collaborate with product proposals and across engineering disciplines to promote the best solutions to fit the needs of our customers
• Mentor train and develop less experienced engineering staff by sharing knowledge and best practices
• Supervise the creation of work processes procedures guidelines training packages and standards and approve content related to turbomachinery mechanical design and analysis
• Executing mechanical design tasks related to won projects and product development initiatives development and execution of innovation projects support of aftermarket activities and engineering tasks
• Support root cause analyses (RCA) of equipment and field commissioning and start up activities executed by the Aftermarket Team
• Drive engineering and material cost reductions and competitiveness across project and product offerings collaborating with stakeholders
• Collaboration with customers to ensure proper design and integration of equipment into the process
• Select components and materials for turbomachinery and systems
• Perform safety and operability reviews
• Checking and approving manufacturing drawings
• Support of bid estimate development
• Collaborate with the Business Improvement Team to develop new and standardized design engineering tools and work processes for streamlining projects and product development
• Challenge norms with alternate solutions rooted in engineering fundamentals
• Promote safety and diversity consistent with the philosophies of Rotoflow.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Technical Degree: BSME or related degree advanced degree and focus on turbomachinery design rotordynamics fluid film bearings design for manufacturability and/or manufacturing processes a plus
• 20 years turbomachinery or rotating machinery design experience
• Detail-oriented goal oriented organized creative self-motivated collaborative and customer focused
• Excellent analytical creativity problem solving time management and decision-making skills.
• Ability and drive to continuously improve and eliminate unnecessary barriers or complexity to meeting customer needs
• Ability to learn quickly and contribute to fostering an environment of continuous learning acting as a coach and mentor.
• Ability to create an environment of trust and consistently exhibit a positive attitude.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (written verbal and presentation)
• Exemplify a passion for winning and ability to motivate teams
• Advanced FEA capabilities a plus
• Fluid film bearing gas bearing magnetic bearing hydrostatic bearing and rolling element bearing applications and design experience a plus
• Rotordynamic analysis capabilities a plus
• Turbine testing data acquisition and data evaluation a plus
• 2D CAD and 3D modeling and simulation a plus
• Equipment startup and plant integration a plus
• Programming skills: VB C# C Python Matlab Fortran or similar languages a plus

Whats In It for You:

At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. Check out some of our benefits below!

• Affordable medical dental and vision insurance available day one of employment

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with immediate vesting of company match and core contributions

• Paid vacation holidays and sick time

• Paid parental leave

• Adoption assistance

• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical dependent daycare)

• Health Savings Account

• Life Insurance (AD&D) Supplemental AD&D

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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Founded in 1940 Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation operational excellence with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine whats possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers our communities and the world.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.).You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin age citizenship gender marital status pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity and expression disability or veteran status.

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