Staff Engineer - Thermal Systems Design
General Electric
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Impacts approaches, projects, and programs in TSD & CHT and ways of working.
- Impacts quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of own team.
- Has significant input into priorities.
- There is moderate autonomy within the role, requiring high levels of operational judgement.
- Developing specialized knowledge within aviation gas turbine thermal systems design (TSD) and component heat transfer (CHT).
- Serves as best practice/quality resource.
- Has awareness of latest technical developments in TSD & CHT.
- Contributes towards strategy and ensures delivery in TSD & CHT.
- Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how TSD & CHT discipline integrate with other disciplines.
- Has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
- Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in TSD and CHT technology and engineering.
- Takes new perspective on existing solutions.
- Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.
- Uses multiple internal and external sources outside of TSD & CHT to arrive at decisions.
- Manages a small to medium team of lead professionals as well as others.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- Lead small projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
- Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
- Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within TSD & CHT.
- PhD / MTech / MS in Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering
- 6-10 years of relevant experience on thermal systems design/analyses and component heat transfer in gas turbine domain
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineering programs through established project management skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Strong numerical simulation experience – CAD/UG or similar and 1D/2D/3D modeling tools for thermal system design and analysis
- Exposure to Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Turbomachines, Secondary Flow Design
- Design, analysis, and testing experience in turbo machinery
- Exposure to aircraft engine architecture and design process
- Strong mentoring and coaching expertise and success in collaborating across the business functions and global teams