Senior Design Engineer

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

This exciting position will provide you with an opportunity to apply your engineering expertise in a collaborative environment.  You will be focused on developing new cryogenic and industrial gas products, taking them from concept to volume production.  Assignments are broad in nature requiring the ideal candidate show initiative, be comfortable navigating through ambiguity and be an effective team player.  Additionally, this individual will need excellent analytical and strong problem-solving skills in the areas of heat transfer, fluids, thermodynamics, and structural analysis.  As a senior member of the engineering team, the Sr. Design Engineer will also improve processes and coach employees. 

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be…

• Review designs and ensure product technical performance and ensure conformance with internal design standards, regulatory requirements, and safety best practices
• Understand worldwide regulatory requirements (e.g. ASME, PED, CRN, UL, CE, CSA, etc) to produce equipment  (pressure vessels, piping, heat exchangers, some electrical equipment) which complies with market requirements
• Engage with production teams to ensure designs are cost-effective and manufacturable (DFM)
• Participate in or lead risk analysis activities, e.g. DFMEA
• Create and perform calculations for pressure vessel structural design, piping and heat exchanger sizing, structural weldments, bolting, etc.
• Research and conduct additional calculations or testing to mitigate risks in diverse engineering engineering disciplines including fluid flow, thermodynamics, heat transfer, static structural analysis, dynamic structural analysis (vibration and shock)
• Utilize structural FEA for design optimization, failure avoidance, code compliance
• Prepare technical design documentation (specification drawings, calculations, risk analyses, etc) and submit to regulatory authorities for new and revised designs
• Manage organization of technical design documentation to ensure security and accessibility
• Serve as primary technical liaison and manage communication with regulatory bodies, government organizations , etc as it relates to design approvals, changes
• Assist with maintaining regulatory compliance by managing timelines for document preparation, submission, etc
• Assist and instruct designers and other team members in practical pressure vessel, piping, heat exchanger design

Other Essential Duties:

• Maintain design documentation per Chart's product development process
• Collaborate with engineering groups at other Chart sites to standardize design practices
• Develop calculation packages that serve to automate routine calculations
• Work with suppliers to design and develop subcomponents and subassemblies
• Evaluate and contribute to product documentation, e.g. creation of specifications
• Assist with validation testing of products, as needed
• Work with manufacturing engineering, quality, and production to ensure production readiness and successful product launch of new or revised products

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

Working Conditions

• Production factory support and office environment
• Minimal work related travel may be required (approximately 5-10%)

Physical Requirements

• Frequent standing, sitting and walking
• Frequent lifting up to 25 lbs., occasional heavier lifting
• Frequent computer work

Work Hazards:

• Production floor environment will involve possible exposure to materials with rough edges, temperature extremes, moving mechanical parts, occasional flying debris, chemical cleaning solvents and their odors.
• Working with cryogenic products will involve possible exposure to pressurized flammable gas, pressurized oxidizing gas, pressurized inert gas and very low temperatures (-320º F).

Your Education Should Be…

• BS Engineering degree, preferably in Mechanical Engineering but will consider Aerospace, Materials Science, or Nuclear Engineering disciplines
• MS degree is a plus
• Registered Professional Engineer is a plus

Your Professional Experience Should Be…

• Required:  Minimum 6 years of relevant engineering experience
• Preferred:  At least 3 years of experience in new product development in a production environment; project management exposure or direct experience

General:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly motivated self-starter and a team leader
• Demonstrated ability to plan and manage multiple tasks
• Desire to drive accountability across project teams and functional team members
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel, and Powerpoint

Technical: 

• Understanding of statics, heat transfer and fluid flow
• Understanding of welding
• Basic understand of cryogenic liquids, compressed gases and their properties
• Structural FEA experience, CFD experience is a plus
• Strong CAD skills a plus (Solidworks, Inventor, AutoCAD)

Chart is an equal opportunity employer