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Siemens Energy Heat Transfer Design and Analysis Engineer in Charlotte, North Carolina
A Snapshot of Your Day
The HT (Heat Transfer) Design and Analysis Engineer position provides an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic engineering product development environment for industrial gas turbines for power generation. Each day involves working both independently and collaboratively, with colleagues and team members on various engine component design projects, component improvements, technical issue resolution, and technology enhancements. Design and analysis efforts will rely heavily on collaboration, not only with immediate team members, but with global and cross-organizational resources!
Continuous learning will take place, through execution of tasks and activities, application of field knowledge, implementation of innovative thinking and ideas, and through attendance of specific courses, both technical and non-technical. You will apply and exercise innovative design and analysis tools in these endeavors, while identifying areas and aspects for improvement. You will support your colleagues through sharing of ideas, questions, and results, and communicate and present directly with internal customers, stakeholders, management, leadership councils and design boards, as required.
How You’ll Make an Impact
Contribute to design of turbine hot gas path components, providing critical thermal analyses, evaluations and designs achieving innovative performance in terms of efficiency, component life, robustness, and manufacturability.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the tools landscape, including classical heat transfer specific tools, tool chains, and automated workflows, through utilization of tools and data reduction activities, providing ideas for improvement in functionality, efficiency, analysis fidelity, including identification of AI/ML opportunities and subsequent follow-on support.
Contribute specifically to the advancement of Conjugate Heat Transfer 3D thermal design methodology through application to components required for new engines, upgrades, and technical issues, along with identification of new CHT implementation approaches and application methodologies.
Contribute to vital engine and component testing, critical for validation of designs, analyses, and tools, by providing engine test and validation requirements, preparing test predictions and performing post-test data reduction and analyses.
What You Bring
Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, or materials engineering, with a focus thermo-fluid science. 5+ years experience with FEA, CFD, and CAD, with strong familiarity of Conjugate Heat Transfer.
Industrial and practical experience with turbo-machinery, turbine hot gas path component thermal design, fluid systems, or similar applications.
Proficient in heat transfer discipline fundamentals.
Computational and programming skills proficiency (e.g. APDL, python).
Comfortable in a global and dynamic, fast-paced Integrated Product Team environment. Highly motivated, proactive, self-directed, and innovative with excellent interpersonal skills and strong communication! (Business fluent in English.)
Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
About the Team
Gas Services
Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With 100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
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Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards
Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
Company paid Health and wellness benefits
Paid Time Off and paid holidays
401K savings plan with company match
Family building benefits
Parental leave
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