Compressor Development Engineer

Title: Compressor Development Engineer

Location: Staunton, VA(Hybrid)

Contract Type: Full time / Contract

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:

• Communication 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