Start Reliability Engineer

Caterpillar • Bangalore, Karnataka, India • 7h ago

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

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Role Definition

The Gas Turbine Start Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the dependable and efficient start-up of gas turbines across diverse operating conditions. This position focuses on performance analysis, diagnostics, and continuous improvement of start-up processes to minimize downtime and enhance system reliability. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to develop solutions that support unattended operation and meet customer expectations. By leveraging field data and reliability engineering principles, the role drives improvements in design, maintenance strategies, and system redundancy. The engineer will also serve as a technical focal point for package system reliability and progressively take ownership of key components and systems.

Responsibilities

Analyze data and design aspects of Gas Turbine package systems to identify operational improvements.
Develop engineering solutions to enhance system reliability and turbine performance.
Recommend component or system modifications to reduce unplanned shutdowns and support remote operations.
Conduct testing of components and systems to validate design integrity and troubleshoot issues.
Propose maintenance and replacement schedules to improve long-term reliability.
Collaborate with SMEs, field engineers, suppliers, and certification teams for component development.
Document design changes and communicate updates internally and to customers.
Optimize turbine start-up sequences and parameters for improved reliability.
Perform stress and performance testing under simulated and actual conditions.
Diagnose start-up failures and recommend corrective actions.
Drive fleet-wide reliability improvements through data-driven insights.
Provide technical leadership during maintenance, overhaul, and customer troubleshooting.
Develop and execute control system diagnostics using operational data to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve system-level issues impacting turbine performance and reliability.

Degree Requirement
Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 12+ years of applicable experience.

Skill Descriptors
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.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Working Knowledge:

Expertise in hydromechanical and package systems for turbomachinery systems or oil & gas power systems.
Field experience in operations & maintenance of gas turbine oil & gas and power generation packages.
Ability to develop robust solutions to complex engineering problems.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Experience using control system data to diagnose and resolve issues.
Demonstrated initiative and technical leadership in prior engineering roles.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Recognizes changing demands and priorities; validates changes with management.
• Obtains information about how current assignments contribute to organizational goals.
• Completes current work according to assigned priorities.
• Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.
• Performs at least 2-3 concurrent activities without reducing productivity.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Builds three-dimensional models with basic materials.
• Communicates with professionals to understand various requirements of product design.
• Tests and evaluates alternative means of production being considered for use.
• Uses automated tools to design or modify the design of a product.
• Assists in building a complex prototype of product.