Job Title:

Aftermarket Mechanical Design and Support Engineer

The Design Engineering function supports business needs and continuous improvement efforts through appropriate technical product and engineering principle development of employees and management.

Job Description and Duties
Principal Duties:

Provide a high level of non-supervisory engineering work involving broad assignments relating to the aftermarket business of Hayward Tyler.

Principal duties performed in collaboration with the Lead Aftermarket Design Engineer, Engineering Supervisor, or Engineering Manager consists of, but are not limited to:

• Under guidance from Aftermarket Design Engineers, to translate design specifications and code requirements into the requisite product design; preparation and checking of manufacturing drawings, procedures, and analytical design reports. Many of these activities will require close collaboration with contract management, quality assurance, and manufacturing personnel.

• Aid Aftermarket Design Engineers in providing documented technical and analytical support assistance to clients for determining the suitability for operation of HTI equipment outside of original intended design parameters, justification of modes of operation for regulatory compliance, redeployment of equipment, failure modes and root cause determination. Technical support assistance to end users in the installation, operation, maintenance and technical oversight of HTI manufactured equipment.

• Reviewing and updating legacy documents and drawings in compliance with Code and Customer Design Specifications, consistent with HTI current standards. This includes researching material equivalencies and aiding in the creation of the requisite Technical Evaluations in the support of updating, repairing, overhauling, and maintenance of HTI equipment to support HTI Aftermarket Parts, Aftermarket Units, and Service Application Engineering activities.

• Review and disposition of Engineering Change Requests for presentation to Aftermarket Design Engineers.

• Under guidance from Aftermarket Design Engineers, provide technical assistance to the manufacturing floor to assist in achieving specified design requirements and resolution of conflicts that arise in attaining the specified design or contractual obligations for Parts, Aftermarket Units, and Nuclear/Safety Service jobs.

• Disposition Discrepant Material Reports, for review by Aftermarket Design Engineers, related to ASME Code Section I, III, VIII and Safety Related Aftermarket Units, Parts, and Service.

In order to perform the assigned duties it is necessary to have well developed analytical skills as it applies to rotating mechanical equipment design and analysis and a fundamental understanding of mechanical engineering principles including mechanical design, and material selection, and other disciplines such as material science, electromechanical engineering, vibration and failure analysis. Competency in reading, understanding, and translating customer technical requirements enables the Aftermarket Mechanical Design and Support Engineer to arrive at reasonable, timely and cost effective solutions.

Other related duties as required.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and 1 year of engineering and analysis in the field of industrial rotating machinery such as pumps, turbines and compressors or hydraulics and other mechanical devices.
• Ability to produce, read and/or interpret engineering drawings, standards and specifications
• Engineering work in centrifugal pumps a plus.
• Exposure to MathCad preferred.
• Competency in SolidWorks.