Mechanical Designer in Product Engineering  

Company Info:

Solar Turbines Switzerland SAGL is a fully integrated part of Solar Turbines, headquartered in San Diego, California, USA. Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines, with more than 15,000 units and over 2 billion operating hours in over 100 countries.

The Solar Turbines family has over 6,000 employees worldwide and is fully dedicated to its power generation markets, which are served through our people around the world.  Solar is part of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas reciprocating engines and industrial and industrial gas turbines.

Job Description:

The Mechanical Designer will be responsible for the mechanical development of all systems and structures of Gas Turbines packages and its auxiliaries. He/she will also be responsible of the integration of those systems and structures into any GT packages. His/her work is the base to make available, to Sales and Business Management, a product to be sold and delivered to our customers.

Based on the department Work Agenda he/she will work independent, or in a team, to understand the problems, solve them and develop better systems, when working on the maintenance of a product; he/she may be requested to develop new systems/ structures starting from a white sheet. He/she will be responsible to coordinate his/her work with the Product Engineering team and with all involved internal customers.

He/she will provide solutions to a wide range of complex problems; solutions are imaginative, thorough, and practical. He/she negotiates, transforms new problems into solutions.

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

·         Preparation of mechanical assembly and manufacturing drawings of new developments.

·         Definition of the product structure in Winchill / SmarTeam.

·         Resolution of ECTs / RDM.

·         Issue instructions to Manufacturing to procure assemble and inspect these products.

·         Check of suppliers quotes (cost/quality).

·         Extended overview of company’s material flow (logistics).

·         Works with minimum supervision and provides training of junior personnel.

·         Failure to obtain results, erroneous decisions, or recommendations could result in serious program or project delays.

·         Frequent inter-organizational, and supplier contacts.

Minimum Qualifications: 

·         Broad expert knowledge of the standard product.

·         Broad expert knowledge of steel structures design.

·         Knowledge of P&ID’s.

·         Knowledge of basics in mechanical engineering.

·         Expert knowledge of the correlation between Material list – Purchasing – Warehouse – Production.

·         Working language: Italian - Good English will be of advantage.

Preferred Qualifications:

·         MS Office, Lotus Notes, Internet Explorer.

·         Function specific: CREO , WINDCHILL. SOLIDWORKS, AUTOCAD, and SMARTEAM preferred.

·         Ability to work at ease in a multicultural environment.

·         Strong sense of responsibility and capability to work independently as well as in a team.

·         Function specific: CREO , WINDCHILL. SOLIDWORKS, AUTOCAD, and SMARTEAM preferred.

·         Ability to work at ease in a multicultural environment.

·         Strong sense of responsibility and capability to work independently as well as in a team.

 Minimum Education Level: 

Diploma (Non-US)

Minimum Years of Experience:

5 to 8