Gas Services
Job title: Heat Transfer Engineer
Location: Lincoln, UK
Working Model: “Better Together” hybrid working model, with typically 3 days in-person attendance per week.
Education:
- Bachelors/Masters Degree with a significant content of Automotive, Aerospace, or Turbomachinery Heat Transfer/cooling design.
- Alternatively, candidates with equivalent vocational experience are also encouraged to apply.
Experience:
- This position welcomes both early career candidates and those with established industry-based heat transfer experience.
- Desired skills include CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) skills and an awareness of the inputs to thermo-structural lifing analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Interfacing with Mechanical Design and Mechanical Integrity disciplines to collectively derive component life, including duty-based lifing.
- Developing cooling solutions for blade, vane, and casing for new products and upgrades.
- Conducting root cause analysis, weighted decision analysis, and design of experiments.
- Specifying component and engine test requirements.
- Calibrating thermal models using engine test and fleet experience.
- Providing production support by processing component and engine test readings.
- Disseminating information through reports and presentations.
- Initiating tool chain integration and other delivery improvement initiatives.
- Producing and maintaining method documents.
- Testing and validating internal and commercial code upgrades.
- Monitoring and reporting on achievements against technical and schedule objectives.
Profile Requirements:
- Bachelors/Masters Degree with significant content in Automotive, Aerospace, or Turbomachinery Heat Transfer/cooling design.
- Strong analytical skills with a focus on accuracy and meeting deadlines.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team with effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- A sound understanding of Heat Transfer and a commitment to continuous personal development in the subject.
- Understanding of fundamentals like investment casting manufacture, materials science, secondary air systems, and the origins of stress and creep.
- Experience in applying Finite Element Method (FEM) and/or CFD analysis for fluid flow and heat transfer.
- Specific experience with software tools such as Patran, P-Thermal, RR SCO3, Ansys, Abaqus, and CFD software like StarCCM, CFX, or Fluent would be advantageous.
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