Compressor Development Engineer

Job Description & Skill Requirement

• Create and implement planning for compressor development, including Design and Review milestones.
• Detailed and advanced centrifugal compressor design from each mechanical component to electrical components used in compressors.
• This includes the complete centrifugal compressor material selection gear design, bearing design, housing design, and rotor dynamic analysis of both single and multi-stage compressors.
• Evaluate all mechanical aspects to ensure the product designed and developed will meet life cycle requirements.
• This will include detail stress, vibration, modal, fatigue analysis of all designed components.
• Be involved in all steps in the product development process/life cycle, from customer requirements, to design, to prototype manufacturing, to product qualification, to final product implementation and product launch.
• Derive component-level requirements from assembly requirements to create part specifications and drawings.
• Communicate with all suppliers and vendors to determine manufacturability.
• Participate in inspection results to ensure all designed parts are manufactured as specified, within specified tolerances.
• Communicate and instruct designers to create specifications and check part drawings.
• Apply common manufacturing and inspection capabilities to choose materials and tolerances. Relevant experience with specifying tight tolerances and GD&T.
• Create robust design using DFMEA method during design, analysis and testing.
• Create pass/fail criteria of analysis and test results by applying reason and logic to fundamental mechanics.
• Use simulation tools to simulate design performance and reliability to support DFMEA.
• Plan and develop test programs for prototypes using Design of Experiments as needed for complex problems with many variables.
• Communicate and instruct lab technicians to set up tests and gather data to meet the test parameters and accuracy requirements.
• Analyze test data and reports, making clear conclusions if designs meet functional, performance, and safety specifications.
• Develop parts qualification process/procedure and makes decisions pass/fail from developed criteria.
• In-depth involvement in all aspects of the test phase to validate design. Provides detailed analysis based on mathematical, finite element analysis, and experimental data.
• Provide accurate and precise product performance results for marketing and sales for product selection.
• Collaborate and communicate with other teams in the product development process/projects to ensure the final product meets all objectives and customer requirements in all product areas.
• Provide documentation, both high-level and detailed documentation, for all projects and tasks throughout the development process.