Senior Project Engineer

Barber-Nichols LLC • Arvada, CO

17d • $150,000 - $185,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Project Engineer will lead a team of engineers to develop clean sheet turbomachines from specification to flight qualified hardware for our most challenging applications. Recent projects our team has led include successfully testing a molten salt pump for next generation nuclear reactors on FLiBe, delivering a blower that will ride on NASA’s Dragonfly to Saturn’s moon Titan, development of a new oxygen fan and water pump for NASA, and successfully developing propellant turbopumps for multiple flight vehicles. The Senior Project Engineer is the technical lead for developing turbomachines for our customers with a focus on advanced energy, space, thermal management systems, defense and underwater propulsion systems that are the heart of our customer’s system.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience working in high aptitude manufacturing environment.
• Must have a focus on turbomachinery component design/selection for new product introduction.
• Aptitude for project management (schedule, budget, risk, test, etc.)
• Minimum fifteen years combined experience with a focus on technical ownership of turbomachinery design and components.
• Proven rotating machinery expertise and experience with associated systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of rotating machinery design, analysis, test, and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge in the following applicable areas of turbomachinery electromechanical design: Mechanical (Rotordynamics, stress, thermal, bearings, seals), Permanent Magnet Motor Design, Rotordynamics/ Vibrations
• Must be willing to work overtime as required
• Travel up to 10% of working time.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e., current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Ansys and Solidworks.
• Applicable training certificates (FEA, CFD, etc.) and successful completion of the Engineer-in-Training (E.I.T.) or Fundamentals of Engineering (F.E.) are desirable.
• A Colorado State Professional Engineer License is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Resolve technical challenges through broad technical knowledge of turbomachinery and related electromechanical systems.
• Understand customer needs to support the conceptualization of new turbomachine designs to optimize customer’s system performance.
• Lead the technical engineering effort and apply engineering principles to define and analyze the design.
• Perform increasingly challenging calculations involving heat transfer, structural and rotating component stress analysis, aerodynamics, cycle analysis, component sizing, etc.
• Lead Barber-Nichols most challenging projects to meet all customer requirements, including technical capability, schedule milestones, and budgetary constraints, with only high-level oversight by Principal and Chief Engineers.
• Develop project plans and hold accountability to ensure the product design is completed on-time and on-budget through execution of design reviews, development testing, and hardware qualification.
• Direct and review the work of other engineers and mechanical designers in the layout and detailed design tasks to ensure a cost effective and manufacturable design.
• Perform programmatic activities such as creating and maintaining project budgets, schedules and customer CDRls and SDRLs.
• Effectively functions in a team environment to drive organizational success.
• Delegate work and provide oversight to more junior Project Engineers.
• Coordinate with our on-site manufacturing and technician groups to ensure successful projects and address manufacturing issues as they arise.
• Actively supports manufacturing and procurement during project execution.
• Address manufacturing issues as they arise and help develop process improvements.

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $185,000. This range represent the anticipated minimum and maximum base + bonus for this position based upon a good faith and reasonable estimate. The final compensation for this position will be set based on the applicant’s qualifications (education, training and/or experience related to this role), and therefore, may fall outside the range shown, depending on the circumstances.
• To view our benefits provided please visit Careers | Barber-Nichols.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior