Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Job Description

The future is what you make it.

When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers and doers who make the things that make the future.

That means changing the way we fly, fueling jets in an eco-friendly way, keeping buildings smart and safe and even making it possible to breathe on Mars.

Working at Honeywell isn’t just about developing cool things. That’s why all of our employees enjoy access to dynamic career opportunities across different fields and industries. Are you ready to help us make the future?

Outstanding opportunity for a mechanical engineer with Gas Turbine experience interested in joining the Commercial/Military Propulsion and APU Turbines team. This position requires leading, performing, mentoring, and providing technical expertise on cooled and uncooled turbine components design and analysis.

Be responsible for providing technical expertise as a program team leader in the identification and development of new products. You will lead the design effort and be technically responsible for the project. You will provide reports to internal and customer senior stakeholders. You will lead proposals to address future business opportunities, value engineering and program/process changes. Act as a key focal point for driving and implementing goals and objectives and are recognized by business management as primary technical authority.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cooled and uncooled turbine mechanical design efforts and be technically responsible for projects.
• Advanced knowledge of stress, fatigue, creep, burst, crack growth, and probabilistic lifing, as applied to turbine component design.
• Mechanical design and analysis expertise for specific turbines components like cooled nozzles, seal plates, dual-alloy wheels, radial wheels and axial disk-blade rotors.
• Extensive understanding of manufacturing and casting processes and their impact to turbine component design CTQs.
• Lead development of new and innovative concepts for stress and weight reduction.
• Champion turbine design system continuous improvement initiatives, through lessons learned, best practices, and comparative benchmarking, to achieve design cycle time reduction and development cost reduction for mechanical and lifing analysis.
• Lead engine test activities pertinent to turbine components strength and life validation and qualification, selecting instrumentation, creating test plan and participating in engine test activities.
• Responsible for working with associated enterprise project engineers and product chiefs to support development of new growth engines as well as supporting existing fielded engine.
• Drive the development and implementation of strategies in support of the Turbines department’s vision and objectives, ultimately supporting Honeywell’s vision and objectives.
• Champion efforts to supply world class customer satisfaction to the enterprise customers through formulating strategic plans, developing advanced innovative products, program support, and technical leadership.
• Communicate technical results to internal and external customer senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated abilities to mentor junior engineers in the team.
  
  

Qualifications

YOU MUST HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• Must have a minimum of 10 years of experience in mechanical, stress and lifing/durability analysis ideally within gas turbine engineering and cooled / uncooled turbine component design and analysis
• US Citizen or US person required to be able to work on export-controlled technologies.
  
  

WE VALUE

• Extensive knowledge of the gas turbine engine industry.
• Extensive knowledge of Turbine manufacturing and casting processes.
• Proficient in using FEA tools such as ANSYS (Structural).
• Proficient in using NX, NXOpen, APDL, GOM, MATLAB, DARWIN.
• Strong evidence of demonstrated team leadership abilities, motivating and mentoring others.
• Strong teamwork skills, able to work in variety of team roles within cross-functional team.
• Experience in working with global teams across time zones.
• Must be dedicated to customer satisfaction and demonstrated the capability to establish and maintain strong business and personal relationships with customers and co-workers.
• Must have strong written and oral communication skills
  
  

US PERSONS REQUIREMENT

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or have asylum or refugee status in the U.S.