Senior Engineer - Gas Turbine Systems

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

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Role Definition

As a Gas Turbine O&G and Power Generation Lead Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, analysis, and optimization of gas turbine systems for oil & gas and power generation applications. You will ensure compliance with API 520 industry standards, focusing on overpressure protection, reliability, and operational excellence. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet customer requirements and regulatory guidelines.

This Role requires deep expertise in Turbomachinery and their systems, Engineering process safety, and compliance with international codes and standards, the expert will ensure high-performance, cost-effective design while driving innovation, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.

You will also provide dedicated engineering support for compressible systems (Fuel Gas, Air, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, CO₂) for various platform projects, independently executing component design work and driving technical competency within the team.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering efforts for gas turbine systems in oil & gas and power generation projects.

• Ensure compliance with API 520 industry recommendations and overpressure protection calculations.
• Demonstrate expertise in API 520 industry guidelines and conduct overpressure protection calculations, utilizing proficiency in iPrism software.
• Perform system design, analysis, and optimization for reliability, efficiency, and safety.
• Carry out sizing, selection, and specification of pressure relief devices, including relief valves, rupture disks, and vent and flare systems.
• Perform comprehensive analysis of overpressure scenarios and determine the design basis for the relief system.
• Develop and validate engineering solutions for pressure relief, venting, and safety systems.
• Provide expertise in seal systems design, selection, and troubleshooting for turbomachinery packages.
• Conduct flow simulations and analysis for compressible systems (Fuel Gas, Air, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, CO₂).
• Collaborate with stakeholders on spec review, implementation, and gap analysis for API 520 compliance.
• Support field operations and maintenance teams with technical expertise and troubleshooting.
• Document engineering designs, calculations, and compliance reports.
• Drive technical excellence within the engineering team, supporting new technology domains and future NPI programs.
• Promote product feature-level partnership and collaboration across global teams.
• Field experience in operations & maintenance of gas turbine oil & gas and power generation packages.

Degree Requirement
Master’s degree in mechanical, Aerospace, or related Engineering discipline with 15+ years of experience.
 

Skill Descriptors

• Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• Proven expertise in API 520, API 521 industry standards and overpressure protection calculations.

Expertise with API520, API521, ASME BPVC Section VIII, API 692 and related standards.

Participate in safety studies such as HAZOP and LOPA ensuring proper relief system integration.

8+ years of experience in gas turbine systems engineering for oil & gas and/or power generation.

Deep domain expertise in compressible systems design (Fuel Gas, Air, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, CO₂).

Strong background in seal systems for turbomachinery.

Expertise with flow simulations and analysis for compressible systems.

Experience with system design, reliability analysis, and safety compliance.

Familiarity with pressure relief valve sizing, vent studies, and safety-driven engineering.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

Computer-Aided Design & Engineering: Knowledge of tools and techniques of specialized graphics programs; ability to produce, analyze, simulate and test product design drafts.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Coaches others on orthographic, isometric and axonometric projections.
• Presents complex products and systems graphically.
• Performs manipulations on design objects, such as changing projections and managing drawing layers.
• Directs the matrix computations performed to transform objects in coordinate space.
• Consults on benefits and drawbacks of top-down design vs. bottom-up design.
• Compares and contrasts uses of bird's-eye views and worm's-eye views.

Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops improvement plans for senior management and evaluates the outcome of the design against the functionality.
• Advises others on the development of multiple products and their functionality.
• Trains others on advanced tools and approaches of product design.
• Monitors the processes and procedures of a complex product design to ensure functional requirements are met.
• Evaluates feedback from customers and consults on functional weaknesses.
• Controls design and development costs of a proposed product through effective resource coordination.

Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates:

September 26, 2025 - October 9, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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