Mechanical Engineer – Fuel Cell Design GE Fuel Cells – Malta, NY

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Role Summary/Purpose:

Full-time opening for a Mechanical Engineer to develop a new fuel cell product.

Essential Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include mechanical design of fuel cell systems, working with vendors to procure parts/components and fabricate prototypes, developing lab infrastructure, conducting tests, and performing engineering calculations. Working with the production team to specify, optimize and design components for manufacture. Solid understanding of heat transfer, thermal stress analysis, attention to documentation, and familiarity with engineering terminology required.

Responsibilities of the position include:

    • Responsible for the detailed design of fuel cell systems, manufacturing and testing components.
    • Create, revise, and manage product drawings and requirements (detail, design & assembly drawings), considering
      • electrochemical performance
      • product requirements
      • design for manufacturing
    • Write specifications and instructions for the components/processes developed. Train others as required.
  • Perform engineering calculations to develop specifications, evaluate designs, test planning, and interpretation of results.

Qualifications/Requirements:

    • Master’s degree in Engineering with at least 1 year of industrial design experience in fuel cell or related technologies OR a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with at least 3 years of industrial design experience in fuel cell or related technologies.
    • Experience producing engineering drawings utilizing geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
    • Product and process design skills and broad knowledge of manufacturing processes.
    • Demonstrated experience with CAD.
    • Experience with gas plumbing and components.
    • Experience with finite element stress/strain analysis.
    • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
    • Must be willing to work out of an office located in Malta, NY.
    • Must be 18 years or older.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

Desired Skills and Experience

    • Experience with sheet metal cutting and stamping, or related manufacturing processes.
    • Experience with brazing or similar thermal bonding processes.
    • Experiences with high temperature alloys, ceramics and insulation.
    • Experience with basic electronic design, data acquisition systems & programming (Matlab/Labview).
    • Experience with FMEA.
    • Strong analytical skills.
    • Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills.
    • Ability to work across all functions/levels as part of a team.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
    • Commitment to safety.

You must submit your application for employment on the careers page at http://www.gecareers.com to be considered.  The job number for this position is 2223475.

About this company

GE Fuel Cells is a startup business inside of General Electric. A dynamic team of professionals has been assembled from within GE’s R&D center and from other business startups within and outside GE. This team has been tasked with developing the technology, market and production facilities to launch a fuel cell business. The business is an offshoot of a research and development program that has been working on fuel cells for the past two decades. The Malta pilot facility aims to produce sufficient quantities of fuel cells to demonstrate, through customer deployments, the market value of the technology and the feasibility of launching a full scale business. Success on a pilot scale will drive further investment in the startup. Those that become part of this team are entering at the ground floor and will be able to experience the thrill of growing a new business from the very start.

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