Sr Principal Mechanical Engineer

Air Products; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Air Products in Houston, Texas is looking for a skilled turbomachinery design engineer to perform various design analyses and develop product deliverables. The role requires expertise in mechanical design tasks and collaboration with vendors and stakeholders.

Applicants should possess a BSME or related degree with 10–15 years of design experience. Benefits include affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with immediate vesting, paid vacation, and parental leave.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of turbomachinery or rotating machinery design experience.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Experience with fluid film bearing applications (plus).

Responsibilities

• Perform various turbomachinery design analyses including FEA.
• Develop standard product deliverables in collaboration with Product Owners.
• Support root cause analyses of equipment and field commissioning.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Goal-oriented

Excellent analytical skills

Collaborative

Customer-focused

Education

BSME or related degree

Advanced degree in turbomachinery design (plus)

Tools

2D CAD software

3D modeling software

Programming skills in VB, C#, C++, Python, Matlab, Fortran (plus)

Job description

Responsibilities

• Perform various turbomachinery design analyses including FEA (stress, deflection, and modal), hand calculations, and rotordynamics.
• Develop standard product deliverables in collaboration with Product Owners.
• Execute mechanical design tasks related to new projects and product development initiatives, and support aftermarket activities and engineering tasks.
• Communicate with vendors on technical solutions.
• Support root cause analyses (RCA) of equipment and field commissioning and startup activities carried out by the Aftermarket Team.
• Drive engineering and material cost reductions and competitiveness across project and product offerings in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with customers to ensure proper design and integration of equipment into the process.
• Select components and materials for turbomachinery and systems.
• Perform safety and operability reviews.
• Collaborate with various subject areas to finalize equipment designs.
• Check and approve manufacturing drawings.
• Support the development of bid estimates.
• Collaborate with the Business Improvement Team to develop new and standardized design engineering tools and work processes for streamlining projects and product development.
• Challenge norms with alternate solutions rooted in engineering fundamentals.
• Develop and execute the enterprise PD&I strategy aligned with HR and business priorities.
• Deliver trusted, consumable, decision-ready workforce insights through standardized dashboards, descriptive reports, and consultative analytic projects for HR and business.
• Own the people analytics product portfolio and roadmap, prioritizing work based on business impact, scalability, and employee experience.
• Enable advanced and AI‑driven analytics capabilities in Workday and the enterprise data ecosystem with strong governance and ethical use.
• Oversee the configuration, delivery, and support of Workday People Analytics and Prism capabilities to automate standard reporting, enable augmented analytics, and support self‑service while managing limits of prebuilt modules.
• Partner with HR and business stakeholders to translate workforce and talent questions and requirements into actionable insights, improve data accessibility, and support end‑to‑end HR lifecycle processes.
• Manage delivery and analytics offerings by establishing SLAs, reducing ad‑hoc reporting volume through self‑service tools, and operating as an analytics product owner.
• Establish and maintain HR data governance and reliability by managing HR data preparation, metric definitions, data cleansing processes, and centralized talent data repositories to enable repeatable and trustworthy analytics.
• Lead, coach, and develop the PD&I team by building capabilities in analytics, visualization, consulting, storytelling skills, and HR domain expertise.
• Lead compliance and regulatory‑related workforce reporting through collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to ensure overall compliance.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Technical degree: BSME or related degree, advanced degree with focus on turbomachinery design, rotordynamics, fluid film bearings, design for manufacturability, and/or manufacturing processes (plus).
• 10–15 years of turbomachinery or rotating machinery design experience.
• Detail‑oriented, goal‑oriented, organized, creative, self‑motivated, collaborative and customer‑focused.
• Excellent analytical, creative, problem‑solving, time‑management, and decision‑making skills.
• Advanced FEA capabilities (plus).
• Experience with fluid film bearing, gas bearing, magnetic bearing, hydrostatic bearing, and rolling element bearing applications and design (plus).
• Rotordynamic analysis capabilities (plus).
• Turbine testing, data acquisition, and data evaluation experience (plus).
• 2D CAD and 3D modeling and simulation experience (plus).
• Equipment start‑up and plant integration experience (plus).
• Programming skills: VB, C#, C++, Python, Matlab, Fortran, or similar languages (plus).
• Excellent interpersonal skills (written, verbal, and presentation).
• Exemplify a passion for winning and ability to motivate teams.
• Ability to create an environment of trust and consistently exhibit a positive attitude.

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance available day one of employment.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with immediate vesting of company match and core contributions.
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical, dependent daycare).
• Health Savings Account.
• Life insurance (AD&D), Supplemental AD&D.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Equal Opportunity Employer

Air Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.). You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status. Air Products is committed to working with and providing a reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e‑mail us at [e-mail].