Designs, develops, builds, and implements current components, products, or technologies.

Responsibilities

- Creating new component level designs and resolves issues regarding the manufacturing or product operation. Ensuring design acceptance, manufacturing readiness, and validation.
- Participating in the adoption of new technologies and process improvements to achieve greater efficiency, cost reduction and quality improvement.
- Support definition of engineering procedures to make the product or process more reliable, efficient and cost-effective. Understanding functional requirements and translating into detail design documents.
- Collaborating with all functional areas to provide a design solution that meets the requirements of the enterprise partners and customers.
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

Education Requirements

- B.E. / B. Tech. in Mechanical engineering (or equivalent) from an accredited engineering college with 3+ years of product development experience
- M.E. / M. Tech in Mechanical engineering (or equivalent) from an accredited engineering college with 2+ years of product development experience

Mandatory Requirements

- Strong in first principle thinking
- Clarity of thought and good communication skills - should be able to explain present his/her ideas
- Experienced/conversant with fundamentals of structural design concepts: Stress/Strain, beam/shell theory, pressure vessel calculations, high/low cycle fatigue theories etc.
- Ability to perform hand calculation verifications with sound mechanical design fundamentals.
- Minimum 5 years experience in design of gas turbine external systems (i.e., secondary cooling system, lube oil system, bleed air systems, fuel systems, etc.)




- Ability to evaluate gas turbine external systems to prove they meet manufacturing, assembly, durability and functional requirements.
- Familiarity with conventional gas turbine components / systems, functionality as well as its manufacturing and assembly processes.
- Experience collaborating on cross-functional design teams, presenting on design reviews and documenting design per NPI (New Product Introduction) tollgate process.
- Basic Creo / NX modeling capabilities (defeature / modify 3D models).
- Ability interpreting and defining assembly / manufacturing drawings following Geometrical Tolerancing standards. Experience reviewing / approving drawings and Bill of Materials.

Preferred Requirements

- 10 years design experience of gas turbine external systems (i.e., secondary cooling system, lube oil system, bleed air systems, fuel systems, etc.)
- Expertise in gas turbine external systems manufacturing, assembly processes and field issues resolution.
- Exposure to gas turbine field serviceability (tooling and processes) and transportability (shipping, lifting, tooling, weight management, etc.)
- Knowledgeable on gas turbine systems operability (start system, lube oil system, control system, etc.)
- 5 years experience in design and FEA structural analysis of components / systems. (i.e., stress, deflection, modal, harmonic, elastic-plastic material properties, transients, contacts, etc.)
- Exposure to development engine testing (defining instrumentation, supporting engine build and testing)
- Cradle to grave component ownership of gas turbine components
- FMEA, Risk Assessment and failure analysis expertise

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📌 Design Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Bengaluru