Entry Level - Gas Turbine Product Engineering Rotation
Solar Turbines Incorporated, the leading designer and manufacturer of Industrial Gas Turbines in the 1 to 24 MW size range, has exciting opportunities for recent graduates to join our world-class team of turbomachinery professionals as we work together to develop new product capability aimed at reducing emissions, improving efficiency, and burning low-to-zero carbon fuels.
This position is part of our Gas Turbine Products Engineering Rotation Program within Turbomachinery Products (TMP). The TMP Engineering Rotation Program provides the foundation for continued growth and long-term success of both our engineers and our organization. Entry Level engineers will gain access to challenging assignments intended to generate critical business value and enable the engineer to acquire gas turbine product knowledge. These assignments across an array of diverse engineering departments will grow the Entry Level engineer’s professional network, cultivate an enterprise perspective, and maximize engagement within an organization of technical specialists. This program is tailored to the engineer’s proficiencies and interests in preparation of a challenging and rewarding engineering career at Solar Turbines.
Each program consists of multiple rotations of up to six months each in departments such as:
- Mechanical Design
- Combustion
- Additive Manufacturing
- Heat Transfer and Secondary Flow
- Compressor Aerodynamics
- Turbine Aerodynamics
- Performance
- Experimental Product Development and Test
- Condition Based Engineering
- Materials and Processes
- Aftermarket Engineering
- Customer Services
- Product Application Engineering
At the conclusion of the rotation program, the Entry Level engineer will join one of the Gas Turbine Product Engineering departments for their long-term assignment.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must have obtained or will obtain a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Materials Science, or other related engineering discipline.
- Overall cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or higher.
- Must have obtained or will obtain a Bachelor's degree or greater between May 2021 and July 2023.
- Less than one year of relevant industry experience.
- Technical knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
- Must be able and eager to relocate to San Diego, CA.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated leadership and teamwork capabilities.
- Effective problem-solving skills and technical judgment.
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
- Exhibit exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Previous related internship or co-op experience.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities for a variety of tasks.
Applicable Skills:
- Structural analysis using commercially available software (i.e. Ansys, Abaqus, etc.)
- Material modeling
- Statistics / Data analytics
- Coding, ie. MATLAB, Python, C#, etc.
- Pragmatic
- Creative problem-solving capabilities
- Self-motivated
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.