Location: San Diego, California
Work Arrangement: San Diego-based, with office space available
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
Industry: Gas Turbines and Industrial Engineering
Base Salary: $159,120–$238,680
Travel: Occasional
Relocation Assistance: Available
Visa Sponsorship: Not available
Security Clearance: Not required
Position Overview
A global industrial-engineering organization is seeking a highly experienced Senior Consulting Engineer to provide recognized technical leadership across complex gas-turbine design, development, manufacturing and product-validation programs.
This is a senior individual-contributor role. The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams, own critical design decisions and act as a trusted technical adviser to engineering and business leadership.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead complex gas-turbine component and system design programs from concept through production.
• Own design integrity, technical acceptance, manufacturability and validation.
• Resolve complex design, manufacturing and operational challenges.
• Translate functional requirements into detailed engineering documentation.
• Develop scopes addressing business challenges, risks and product opportunities.
• Establish procedures improving reliability, efficiency, cost and quality.
• Develop and maintain enterprise technology roadmaps.
• Define product-testing strategies, methods, tools and validation requirements.
• Oversee testing across multiple products in high-volume manufacturing.
• Establish engineering, development and testing standards.
• Plan, estimate, staff and monitor significant technical projects.
• Apply root-cause, statistical, quantitative and predictive-analysis methods.
• Mentor senior technical professionals and influence cross-functional decisions.
• Present complex technical recommendations to customers and senior management.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or a related engineering discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive gas-turbine design, development and manufacturing experience.
• Recognized technical depth in turbine components, systems and validation.
• Experience leading complex products from development through manufacturing and testing.
• Strong project leadership across scope, cost, schedule, staffing and risk.
• Exceptional analytical and root-cause-analysis capability.
• Ability to influence technical and business decisions through expertise.
• Strong written, verbal and technical-presentation skills.
• Current U.S. work authorization without sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications
• Enterprise technology-roadmap development.
• High-volume manufacturing and production-test experience.
• Product-development and testing standards experience.
• Strong statistical, quantitative and predictive-analysis capability.
• Business-intelligence and performance-metrics experience.
• Coaching and mentoring of other senior technical professionals.
Equal Opportunity
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants without discrimination based on any status protected by applicable law.