Lead Mechanical Engineer

Lead Mechanical Engineer

At Air Products, we reimagine what's 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 everyone matters – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Do you have a passion for solving complex engineering challenges and developing world-class turbomachinery solutions? Air Products is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer to join our Rotoflow® team in Bethlehem, PA. In this role, you will apply your expertise in turbomachinery design, analysis, and project execution to support proprietary high-speed rotating equipment and machinery support systems used by customers around the world. If you thrive in a safety-focused environment and enjoy tackling challenging engineering problems, we invite you to grow with us as we build a more sustainable future.

Rotoflow®, an Air Products business, is a leading turbomachinery OEM providing new equipment, aftermarket services, and engineered solutions to customers worldwide. For more than 75 years, Rotoflow® has specialized in the design and manufacture of standard and custom-engineered cryogenic and warm gas centrifugal turbomachinery serving industries including industrial gases, petrochemicals, and hydrocarbons. Our products include compressor-loaded turbo-expanders, generator-loaded power recovery expanders, and low-cost dissipative expanders. In addition to new equipment, we provide upgrades, repairs, field services, engineering evaluations, reliability and troubleshooting support, training, remote diagnostics and monitoring, shop services, and replacement equipment for a wide variety of centrifugal and reciprocating machinery. Customers are supported globally through regional service centers backed by both regional and centralized execution teams.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• 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 analyses 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 awarded 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.

Required Skills / Abilities

• 20+ years turbomachinery or rotating machinery design experience,
• Deep understanding of turbomachinery design principles including FEA, rotordynamics, bearing and seal technologies, and design for manufacturability,
• 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,

Differentiating Skills / Abilities

• Advanced FEA capabilities a plus,
• Rotordynamic analysis capabilities a plus,
• Fluid film bearing, gas bearing, magnetic bearing, hydrostatic bearing and rolling element bearing applications and design experience a plus,
• Gas seal and labyrinth seal applications and design experience a plus,
• Design for manufacturability experience 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

Degree and Licensing Requirements

• Technical Degree: BS Mechanical Engineering (BSME) or related degree.
• Advanced degree and focus on turbomachinery design, rotordynamics, fluid film bearings, seals, design for manufacturability, and/or manufacturing processes a plus.

Working Conditions:

• This position is based at our headquarters in Bethlehem, PA.
• Hybrid work schedule with 4 days in-office. Subject to change.
• Travel requirements: Minimal-under 10% for onsite customer support.
• Work environment: Indoors office setting at same site as testing lab and manufacturing floor.