Senior Aerothermal CFD Engineer – Gas Turbine Cooling

SIEMENS ENERGY LIMITED; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits portal

Private medical cover

Cycle-to-work schemes

Pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Lincoln seeks an Aerothermal CFD Engineer to support cooling design for turbine blades, vanes and casings. You will analyse heat transfer, perform thermal modelling and validate results against fleet data to improve durability.

You will join the Turbine Engineering team and collaborate with Mechanical Design and Mechanical Integrity to ensure life predictions account for duty, stress and creep. This role requires expertise in FEM/CFD tools and clear technical reporting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree with significant heat transfer or cooling design content.
• At least five years' relevant engineering experience in heat transfer, cooling design or thermal analysis for complex mechanical systems.
• Strong understanding of heat transfer theory and ability to validate results with simple methods and hand calculations.
• Knowledge of gas turbine component cooling, materials science, investment casting, secondary air systems, stress and creep mechanisms.
• Experience applying finite element methods and/or CFD to fluid flow and heat transfer problems.
• Experience with tools such as Patran, P-Thermal, RR SC03, ANSYS, Abaqus, STAR-CCM+, CFX or Fluent.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and develop cooling designs for turbine blades, vanes and casings.
• Collaborate with Mechanical Design and Mechanical Integrity to establish component life.
• Use root cause analysis and DOE to investigate issues and support robust design decisions.
• Define test requirements and calibrate thermal models with fleet data.
• Apply FEM/CFD methods to assess heat transfer and fluid flow behaviour.
• Produce technical reports and documentation and contribute to tool-chain integration.

Skills

Heat transfer

Cooling design

Thermal analysis

Finite element methods

Computational fluid dynamics

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering with heat transfer content

Tools

Patran

P-Thermal

RR SC03

ANSYS

Abaqus

STAR-CCM+

CFX

Fluent

Job description

Siemens Energy in Lincoln seeks an Aerothermal CFD Engineer to support cooling design for turbine blades, vanes and casings. You will analyse heat transfer, perform thermal modelling and validate results against fleet data to improve durability.

You will join the Turbine Engineering team and collaborate with Mechanical Design and Mechanical Integrity to ensure life predictions account for duty, stress and creep. This role requires expertise in FEM/CFD tools and clear technical reporting.