Senior Engineer, Advanced Thermal Applications

POSITION PURPOSE

The Senior Engineer, Advanced Thermal Applications serves as a key technical resource within Global Advanced Thermal Applications team responsible for supporting complex internal/external customer requests related to thermal, fluid dynamics, and airflow analyses and for defining, maintaining, and continuously improving the processes and analytical standards to perform those studies.

This role is focused on thermal analysis of heat rejection equipment to address the customer specific technical questions, validate product application limits, and support technical decision making.

The incumbent is expected to work with minimal supervision, exercise sound engineering judgment, and provide a prompt response to the customer’s heat rejection needs.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES


* Perform complex thermal and fluid mechanics analyses to support the customer heat rejection needs, site layout evaluations, and advising the best heat rejection solutions for the given application.


* Support special technical inquiries from the customers where standard selection tools or guidelines are insufficient or analysis is complicated.


* Evaluate heat rejection equipment airflow distribution, unit to unit interaction, airflow recirculation effects, and thermal performance impacts due to layout, wind, and surrounding structures.


* Advise the customers about the project testing needs, objectives and timelines.


* Effectively communicate the analysis results to all the stakeholders (Customers, Applications Engineering, etc.) and ensure that BAC provides the most practical technical solutions to meet the customer heat rejection needs.


* Assist with the CFD analysis of heat rejection equipment site layouts, interpreting the CFD results and communicating it to the internal and external customers.


* Interact with the BAC’s global customer base located in different regions of the world


* Collaborate with Product Engineering, Research and Development, Applications, and Sales teams to ensure analytical approaches align with product capabilities and published guidance.


* Establish documentation and reporting standards to ensure consistency, traceability, and appropriate use of analysis results.


* Propose improvements to the analytical tools to ensure that the customer needs can be met in a timely manner.


* Stay up to date with developments in the heat rejection industry

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Required


* Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related field.


* Strong fundamentals in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics


* 5+ years of experience working in the HVAC industry, with analyses for air flow, thermal, or HVAC related applications


* Ability to work with minimal supervision, prioritize work, and exercise sound engineering judgment on open-ended problems


* Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex results to the in...