Senior Gas Turbine Design Engineer #ESF9151

ExpertHiring•San Diego, CA

42d•$159,120 - $238,680•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves leading cross-functional engineering teams to provide technical expertise, direction, and engineering support for the complex design and development of technologies, components, systems, products, or services. The position serves as a technical consultant to management, helping to establish engineering best practices and standard work. Key responsibilities include leading complex designs, addressing manufacturing and operational challenges, owning design acceptance, manufacturing producibility, validation, and technical project execution. The role also involves defining project scope, developing solutions, and creating/maintaining enterprise technology roadmaps and process improvements to enhance efficiency, quality, reliability, and cost. Additionally, the engineer will define and implement engineering procedures, standards, and best practices, translate functional requirements into detailed engineering and design documentation, and lead collaboration across various departments and external partners. Advanced analytical, statistical, quantitative, and predictive methods will be applied to identify root causes and support strategic decisions. The role requires monitoring industry trends and emerging technologies, providing technical leadership on complex engineering challenges, and championing innovative technologies. Planning, estimating, staffing, organizing, monitoring, and controlling significant technical projects, while managing risks, resources, and stakeholders, is also a core function. The engineer will lead project reviews, maintain communication with stakeholders, and lead product testing strategies, methods, tools, standards, and best practices, including testing in high-volume manufacturing environments. Finally, the role encompasses leading product design and development from concept through production and establishing effective product-development processes, as well as mentoring and coaching technical professionals.

Requirements

15+ years of engineering/design experience.
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited program in Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science, or related technical discipline.
Demonstrated expertise in complex product/component/system design and development.
Strong experience with manufacturing producibility, product validation, testing, and technical problem solving.
Experience leading teams as a Design Lead, Technical Lead, or Project Lead.
Experience owning a design/product development project from concept through execution.
Advanced analytical, critical-thinking, decision-making, and project-management capabilities.
Strong ability to influence stakeholders through technical expertise and communicate complex concepts clearly.
Willingness to travel occasionally.
Gas turbine design experience required.
Product design and development.
Manufacturing engineering and producibility.
Product testing and validation.
Root-cause analysis and statistical/quantitative analysis.
Technology roadmaps and process improvement.
Engineering standards and best practices.
Project cost/time estimation and risk management.
Business intelligence and analytics.
Emerging technology evaluation and technical advising.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional engineering teams by providing technical expertise, direction, and engineering support for complex design and development of technologies, components, systems, products, or services.
Serve as a technical consultant to management and help establish engineering best practices and standard work.
Lead complex designs and cross-functional teams addressing manufacturing and operational challenges.
Own design acceptance, manufacturing producibility, validation, and technical project execution.
Define project scope and develop solutions addressing business challenges and opportunities.
Develop and maintain enterprise technology roadmaps and process improvements to improve efficiency, quality, reliability, and cost.
Define and implement engineering procedures, standards, and best practices to improve product/process performance.
Translate functional requirements into detailed engineering and design documentation.
Lead collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, operations, business teams, and external partners to deliver product solutions.
Apply advanced analytical, statistical, quantitative, and predictive methods to identify root causes and support strategic decisions.
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies and evaluate their impact on organizational strategies.
Provide recognized technical leadership on highly complex engineering challenges and champion innovative technologies.
Plan, estimate, staff, organize, monitor, and control significant technical projects while managing risks, resources, and stakeholders.
Lead project reviews and maintain communication with project teams, sponsors, clients, and stakeholders.
Lead product testing strategies, methods, tools, standards, and best practices, including testing in high-volume manufacturing environments.
Lead product design and development from concept through production and establish effective product-development processes.
Mentor and coach technical professionals and promote technical excellence across the organization.