The Role
Lead mechanical design of heat exchangers including mechanical sizing, analytical calculations, manufacturing drawing checks, design reviews, client interactions, FEA boundary verification, compliance with pressure-vessel and nuclear safety standards, and driving design improvements and cost reduction.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Heat Exchanger engineering department needs to reinforce its team with a lead mechanical engineer. The engineer will be in charge to perform the mechanical design of heat exchanger as per standard applicable rules and standard. She or he must ensure the quality of the manufacturing drawing as per calculation and good engineering practice.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
The engineer will be in charge of:
- Executing if required the analytical mechanical calculations for the sizing of products during tender phase
- Executing contract and specification reading to identify critical areas prior designing equipment
- Executing and leading the mechanical sizing of products considering client specifications and directives, internal guidelines, design instructions, input data and conception rules,
- Checking the documentation and notes sent to clients,
- Checking the manufacturing drawing of equipment
- Organizing, presenting or participating to internal design review
- Participating on demand to the client clarification meetings
- Working in interface with thermal engineering and manufacturing quality teams for design optimization
- Being able to challenge Mechanical integrity team by checking boundary conditions of Finite Element model and calculation results
- Being able to answer to customer issues
- Contribute to design rules updating. Providing proposals for design improvement and cost reduction initiatives based on project’s return of experience.
- Review the Concession Request(s) (CR) and / or Non-Conformity Report (NCR) related to Products in manufacturing
- Ensuring compliance to applicable rules & regulations , including Nuclear Safety requirements
- Ensuring compliance to EHS rules. Contributing to EHS improvement on the whole product life cycle
Authority
- Reporting to management
- Interact with Engineers worldwide from internal and external design and manufacturing teams
- Coordinate design engineers and technicians
Required Competences
Education & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Engineering activities in industrial environment
- Experience in power plant engineering,
Technical Know-how
- Strong knowledge in pressure vessel codes and heat exchange equipment standards and guidelines (ASME, EN13445, CODAP, AD2000 mandatory, WRC107, RCCM, GB-150, TEMA, HEI helpful),
- Strong Knowledge of mechanical engineering physics
- Strong Knowledge of FEA principles, skills in FEA software (as ANSYS) helpful (but not mandatory)
- Understanding of vessels and heater exchangers thermal design concepts.
- High Skills of at least one pressure vessel calculation software (AutoPipe Vessel, Compress, PVElite)
- High Competence in engineering technical drawings construction and drawings good engineering practices, familiar with CAD tools: CATIA, Autodesk products or equivalent.
- Knowledge in plant guidelines & diagrams as P&ID reading and checking.
Behavioural Know-how
- Rigorous and autonomous
- Excellent communication skills in an international team,
- Good level in Solving problem
- Details oriented and pragmatic.
- Good degree of analysis, judgement and decisiveness,
- Resilient, self-confident and accountable.
- Customer oriented
- Proactive in leading studies and solving problem
- Ability to take short duration trips
Language skills
- English: fluent (fluency: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing.)
Join us and work with global teams to support global customers ! At Arabelle Solutions, we have team members of more than 49 nationalities spread across 16 countries.
At Arabelle Solutions, we know diversity makes teams and business stronger.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of engineering experience in an industrial environment
- Experience in power plant engineering
- Strong knowledge of pressure vessel codes and heat exchanger standards (ASME, EN13445, CODAP, AD2000 mandatory; WRC107, RCCM, GB-150, TEMA, HEI helpful)
- High skill with at least one pressure vessel calculation software (AutoPipe Vessel, Compress, PVElite)
- Competence in CAD and engineering drawing practices (CATIA, Autodesk products or equivalent)
- Knowledge of FEA principles; experience with FEA software such as ANSYS helpful
- Understanding of thermal design concepts for vessels and heat exchangers
- Ability to read and check plant diagrams and P&IDs
- Fluency in English (speaking, listening, reading, writing)
- Knowledge and ability to ensure compliance with nuclear safety requirements and EHS rules
- Excellent communication skills and ability to coordinate international design and manufacturing teams
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The Company
What We Do
Arabelle Solutions is a global provider of nuclear turbine island technology and lifecycle services. It designs, manufactures, installs, maintains, repairs, upgrades and extends the operating life of turbine islands for large nuclear power plants and small modular reactors. Its integrated equipment includes steam turbines, generators, pumps, heat exchangers and control systems, supporting reliable low-carbon electricity generation for customers across multiple countries.
