Role
The aerodynamic engineer is responsible to carry out aerodynamic assessment to develop or improve the design of Nuclear Products, within the Aerodynamics Team

Main Duties

• Technical work to develop and generate Aerodynamic designs
     o For new steam turbine blading
     o For continuous performance improvement of existing turbine blading
     o For other products (diffuser, valves, steam ejectors, …)
     o introducing new design processes
• Provide professional technical engineering services for:
     o Steam Turbines products (including Nuclear, and Service/Retrofit applications) and technology development (R&D)
     o The execution of projects or work packages for Steam Turbines or other Arabelle Solution businesses/activities
     o Projects or work packages for external customers
• Understand and use the internal procedures and processes (Engineering Process, Quality, etc.):
     o Provide feedback and undertake actions for process improvements.
     o Maintain Design- and Work Instructions
     o Support the organisation to develop and maintain a know-how and know-why culture and support the development of your colleagues.
• Balance priorities and tasks according to the business priorities as set by the management.
• Monitor opportunities and risks.
• As required by the Team Manager, provide support to:
     o Collaborations with universities or research institutes
     o Definition of the technical content and planning design tasks requested by the R&D project managers
• Generate new ideas.
• Promote the interests and image of the company at all times
• Behave according to Arabelle Solutions Code of Ethics and Values.

Responsibilities

• To satisfy performance and mechanical integrity criteria whilst generating aerodynamic integral airfoil designs within the in-house tools suite you:
     o Design blade profile sections and define its radial stacking
     o Improve profile performance based on a blade to blade streamline method
     o Assess mechanical integrity (mean stresses, peak stresses and frequencies) based on integrated lean methods
• You stay in continuous exchange and interface to the Mechanical-, the Design- and the thermodynamic-department
• Apply 3D-CFD methods (ANSYS-CFX, Cadence-Numeca) to assess the multistage turbine performance characteristic and provide input for cycle performance prediction
• For the diffusor and exhaust at the exit of the low pressure turbine you:
     o Generate aerodynamic diffuser designs
     o Generate CFD meshes (ICEM, AUTOGRID, ANSYS-Mesh) for complex blade (shrouds, mid span connectors) and full exhaust geometries
     o Run 3D RANS CFD to predict the exhaust recovery characteristic
• You are responsible for the technical quality of your work
• Continuously develop your own technical expertise.
• You may be asked to act as a reviewer (e.g. at a design, risk or project review) in your area of expertise. 

• Advanced University degree (Engineering Diploma, Masters or PhD)
• Ideally 2 to 3 years relevant experience in an engineering office (energy, oil, aeronautics, special machines)
• 5 years relevant experience minimum
• French & English mandatory
• German desirable

Good understanding in:

• Aerodynamics
• Computational fluid dynamics (ANSYS-CFX, FLUENT, Cadence-Numeca)
• Thermodynamics
• Aerodynamic design of turbomachinery blading
• Experimental design and execution
• General Mechanical integrity knowledge
• General Design knowledge

Behavioral and/or Technical Know-how

• General Nuclear Conventional Island Design and Product Knowledge
•  IT skills
• Rigor and autonomy
•  Proactive and decision making
• Focuses on results
• Process oriented
• Good relationship, able to communicate in a multicultural environment
• Team spirit