[ref. k551617] R&D Senior Engineer - Fatigue - IDC - Chennai
Job Description
Location:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job ID:
R0067770
Date Posted:
2025-03-03
Company Name:
HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
Profession (Job Category):
Engineering & Science
Job Schedule:
Full time
Remote:
No
Job Description:
Business Information:
Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore.
IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centers of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.
Mission Statement:
As a Senior Fatigue engineer, your main tasks will be to execute fatigue evaluation and simulations for critical R&D projects. You will also be involved in studies and new product development, and you will support R&D teams on simulation designs and provide technical guidance.
Your Responsibilities:
- Understand and identify the current and future Offshore Wind Connections (OWC) product challenges and implement effective solutions HV equipment fatigue evaluation and design quality control
- Independently execute HV equipment fatigue evaluation
- Proactively provide design suggestions in R&D projects and update relevant technologies and solutions in OWC industry
- Technology leader, provide experience and expertise in projects and Support Hitachi Energy in OWC standards advocacy
- Coaching the junior engineers
- Design fatigue test to validate the simulation results
- Drive failure analysis, RCA (Root cause analysis), and design of experiments (DOE)
- Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Your background:
- Master's or PhD in applied/fatigue Mechanics, structural engineering
- Over 10 years of hands-on experience in the design and analysis of naval structures, ensuring compliance with industry standards and addressing specific fatigue and structural mechanics challenges.
- Excellent expertise in finite element method (FEM) simulation using Abaqus or ANSYS.
- Ability to design and set up mechanical experiments to validate simulation results and investigate material properties and structural performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of addressing complex structural and fatigue issues.
- In-depth knowledge of industrial standards for electrical equipment design or naval structure fatigue design
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.