R&d Engineer

Company Overview: If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!

Flowserve is an American multinational corporation and one of the largest suppliers of industrial and environmental machinery, from pumps and seals to valves, actuation and instrumentation, to energy recovery devices and hydraulic decoking systems, and more, our products help plants overcome the toughest flow control challenges.

In this role you will be leading R&D projects to test, benchmark and improve the Flowserve floating ball & metal seated plug valves portfolio. Engineering expertise will be required to evaluate the performance of current products and facilitate a design, build & test program to maintain our status as one of the market leaders in valve products.

Responsibilities :

• You will be responsible for the R&D lab including: stock of test products, working processes and procedures.
• You will be required to use your own experience and expertise to help develop internal testing capabilities and processes.
• You will help to plan and design tests and experiments, perform the physical testing, acquire and analyze the results and summarize the testing into a report.
• You will work alongside an existing team of engineers locally.
• You will also help to support R&D work carried out by a team of engineers.
• You will provide support for the local manufacturing and assembly teams by helping to solve issues with products though providing direction for rework, if required, with sound engineering judgement and rationale.
• You will help solve issues with products in the field by investigating the root cause and providing written summary reports which will be issued both internally and to the end user.
• And any other duties as assigned

Requirements :

• BS or BA Degree in relevant field
• 5-7 years relevant experience
• Previous engineering experience in an R&D capacity
• Proficiency in writing engineering/test reports to convey testing methods and conclusions
• Solid understanding in design of experiments (DoE)
• Root cause analysis & problem-solving experience
• Experience in developing testing programs to meet customer or industry specifications
• Proficiency using 2D and 3D CAD packages i.e. SolidWords, Autodesk Inventor or others
• Proficiency in reading detailed engineering drawings
• Experience designing valves or pressure vessels including industry recognized design codes & calculation methods
• Manual machining capability, i.e. turning, milling, drilling or CNC programming
• Numerical simulation expertise - FEA (linear, non-linear, static & dynamic)
• Ability to develop and create testing equipment and acquire test results electronically for analysis

What we offer (among other benefits) :

• Canteen 100% founded by the company
• Transportation services 100% founded by the company
• Flexible working time: 30 minutes ahead or behind
• Summer timetable (shorter working hours)

Req ID : R-3988

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