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Turbomachinery Design Engineer

Parque Industrial de Elche (Poligono Industrial), Spain


Mission

As a Turbomachinery Design Engineer, you will be responsible for designing components of the propulsion system related to turbomachinery, including turbine and pumps. Your mission will involve developing high-performance turbomachinery designs to support our innovative microlauncher space vehicles. 

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and test turbopump hardware for MIURA 5 first/second stage liquid propellant rocket engines (TEPREL-C and TEPREL-C Vac). 
  • Work closely with the propulsion team to assure functional integration of the turbomachinery components in the engine system. 
  • Generate detail part production drawings to meet functional requirements by use of tolerance stackups. 
  • Build up and own turbomachine tolerance stackup, incorporating information from operational simulations to understand critical interface clearances and inform manufacturing and assembly choices. 
  • Elaborate, update and review engineering documentation including engineering models and drawings. 
  • Evaluate hardware nonconforming conditions providing written dispositions for development, production, test, and postproduction discrepancies considering design requirements, safety, quality, cost and schedule. 
  • Write, review, and update work instructions for assembly, handling, inspection of turbopump assemblies (both intermediate test articles and flight hardware). 
  • Provide feedback to identify, improve performance, increase reliability or manufacturability, and assembly at design level and operational level. 
  • Interface with vendor or in-house fabrication and assembly teams during design and prototype hardware builds. Incorporate any producibility lessons learned by design change and drawing revision. 
  • Generate documentation, including user guides, guidelines and user manuals for internal customers use.  
  • Generate documentation for formal program development reviews.

Required Knowledge

  • Aerospace Engineering bachelor’s degree. 
  • > 5 years of experience using CAD to design parts/assemblies (SIEMENS NX preferred). 
  • Fluency in English, both written and oral, and excellent communication skills


Required Competencies

  • Knowledge of CAD software and engineering principles, as well as manufacturing processes for turbomachinery. 
  • Manage suppliers for the following but not limited assembly/ fabrication tooling support, rotor balance, casting, bearings and seals. 
  • Experience in one or more of the following: 
  • Mechanical design of turbomachinery 
  • Design of Bearings and Seals / Mechanical Elements for rocket turbopump application. 
  • Manufacturing / producibility of turbopump hardware. 

Others

  • Location: Elche 
  • Full time position  
  • Flexibility and willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required, in particular to French Guiana (FR), during implementation phase. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

Payload Aerospace SL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality or disability.

We are compromised in maintaining a diverse and free from discrimination working environment where everyone is treated with respect. Employment is based on an individual’s merit and qualifications, directly related to job competence.

These principles are included in all aspects of employment: recruiting, hiring, training, compensation and benefits, and promotion.

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