Pump Engineer (Principal - Senior Advisor)

Job Duties and Qualifications

• Play a major role in the design, development, testing, construction, and commissioning of best-in-class plunger pumps to serve for new and existing oil & gas markets
• Play a similar role in revision and/or modification of existing pumping solutions to meet new or changing customer requirements
• Develop pumping solutions for demanding upstream oil & gas applications, both offshore and onshore
• Designs must meet high performance, reliability, and safety standards under challenging environmental conditions  
• Develop pump components, such as valves, seats, plungers, power train components, and/or sensors to drive performance, reliability, and safety metrics
• Leverage various statistical techniques, and predictive modeling to identify and drive design improvements

Job Responsibilities

• Work individually and as a team member
• Support existing products through: Testing, Evaluating equipment, and Mechanical failure analyses
• Provide technical assistance as needed within the Operations, Engineering and Manufacturing environments
• Create statistical or mathematical models for equipment simulations
• Collect and analyzes data to identify trends and relationships
• Prepare and presents research results to engineers, managers, and clients
• Interpret design specifications and support concept, design, documentation, fatigue analysis, fabrication and testing of pumps
• Lead and assist analytical evaluation of high-pressure plunger pump designs for structural integrity, fluid flow capability and exposure to vibration, corrosion, and erosion
• Create component and next higher level assembly designs
• Ensure compliance of design to manufacturability, material, and job specification requirements
• Deliver innovative ideas by examining alternate techniques/approaches and provide intellectual property recommendations for Halliburton when needed
• Review and assess appropriate standards, regulations, and specifications for testing and reliability analysis activities and assesses their application to projects, processes, and testing
• Ensure all components are Designed for Manufacturability (DFM) utilizing a system approach that simultaneously considers all design goals and constraints
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines about standards and techniques for calculations
• Guide others and use advanced engineering techniques to meet complex design criteria
• Develop test specifications and evaluate application of HSE techniques during the design process

Additional Qualifications

Candidate Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline required to successfully perform the essential functions of the job
• Completion of a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline - Preferred
• Completion of a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline – Preferred
• Experience with data and physics-based modeling techniques  
• Experience with modal vibration analysis in FEA
• Experience with kinematic model development
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline, preferably within the off-highway or upstream oil & gas industry

Candidates having qualifications that exceed the minimum job requirements will receive consideration for higher-level roles based on (1) their experience, (2) additional job requirements, and/or (3) business needs. Depending on education, experience, and skill level, a variety of job opportunities might be available from the Principal Mechanical Engineer, Advisor Mechanical Engineer up to the Senior Advisor Mechanical Engineer