Machinery Engineer

Job description

Job Description

Lead Machinery Diagnostics Engineer

Do you enjoy enhancing the performance and reliability of essential equipment?

Would you like to help shape and implement our Bently Nevada Diagnostics Services?

Join our Team!

Our Team offers a plant-wide, holistic suite of computerized machine condition monitoring and protection services. We help our customers and partners to achieve outstanding levels of reliability through our innovative technical designs and platforms. Our portfolio of pioneering technology products works seamlessly to provide on-site, real-time data solutions.

Partner with the best

You will be providing customers service solutions to address their critical rotating machinery assets, protection, monitoring system

As a Machinery Diagnostics Engineer, you will be responsible for:
• Providing leadership, technical direction, and assistance to the customer, user, and other field personnel in the diagnostic and long-term maintenance of Bently Nevada equipment and customers’ rotating machinery
• Performing installations, commissioning, and troubleshooting of Bently Nevada Hardware and Software Products and Solutions at customer locations
• Diagnosing machinery problems based upon available data i.e. vibration, process, performance data, maintenance records, customer communications, etc.
• Completing timely standard service reports with documentation of findings / recommendations
• Reacting to customer required travel in a timely manner, while bringing all required service equipment
• Identify proper installation of permanently installed transducers and monitors and be able to install transducers.
• Properly install temporary shaft, casing, optical, and laser-based transducers to acquire additional machinery data, and professionally use MDS data acquisition instruments to acquire field data, this includes ADRE408, Scout, System 1®
• Successfully extract machinery data plots from MDS data acquisition instruments and System 1®.
• Recognize good versus bad machinery vibration data, coupled with the ability to evaluate the overall quality of a data set.
• Recognize and quantify the severity of machinery vibration data in accordance with applicable industry standards (e.g., API, ISO).
• Hands on experience with Field-balancing of critical machinery like steam & gas turbines, generators, compressors, and pumps.
• Perform a simple two-channel impact test using an impact hammer and an appropriate accelerometer to determine natural frequencies of structures, rotors, piping, and machinery support systems.
• Perform and interpret Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) and basic modal analysis.