What are the responsibilities and job description for the Entry Level Mechanical Design Engineer position at Zeeco?
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Job Description:
The Mechanical Design Engineer position at Zeeco will be responsible for designing various pieces of combustion equipment including but not limited to pressure vessels, steel stacks, derrick structures, and piping systems.
Job Duties:
- Completing and/or checking structural calculations for a variety of equipment, including pressure vessels, steel stacks, derrick structures, and piping systems.
- Work within engineering team to provide technical support and responses for structural related items.
- Occasional travel to domestic and/or international locations for meetings or job site visits.
- Give technical presentations to colleagues on various structural subjects.
- Acting as the technical liaison with US and Global Location colleagues.
- Communication with project execution team to ensure structural designs are made with materials and details that can be readily purchased on the market.
- Communication with drafting and manufacturing teams to provide structural designs that can be most easily fabricated.
- Assist Applications Engineers in structural topics for ongoing quotes.
- Efficient, clear, and concise reporting of structural design packages.
- Effective use of first principles to work through engineering challenges.
- Continual vigilance to identifying areas of waste and inefficiency with action to improve these areas.
Qualifications:
Minimum requirements:
-Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Civil, or Architectural Engineer preferred)
- Excellent organizational skills
- Aptitude to interpret specifications
- Fluent in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Willingness to obtain and ultimately use a Professional Engineering License
Expectations:
As this role is primarily, but not limited to, entry level, proper continual training will be given for the first 1-2 years prior to the expectation that the engineer work independently. The training, which will consist of internal presentations, one-on-one mentoring, and structured 3rd party trainings, will be provided for the following items.
- Software packages
- STAAD.Pro
- MecaStack
- MecaLug
- IDEA StatiCa
- Codeware COMPRESS
- SolidWorks
- CAESAR II
- Ansys Mechanical
- Design topics
- Steel stack design
- Derrick structure design
- Connection design
- Pipe stress analysis
- Pressure vessel design
- Proprietary Zeeco equipment
- Design codes and standards
- ASME Section VIII Division 1
- ASME B31.3
- ASCE 7
- AISC 360
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