Axial Turbines Engineer

Number of employees

150

Lugano, Switzerland

Posted on: 2023-02-22

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Energy Vault is the creator of sustainable energy storage solutions designed to accelerate the transition to a carbon free, resilient power grid and transform the world’s approach to utility-scale energy storage. Energy Vault works to combat climate change by enabling clean and reliable electricity through innovative gravity and kinetic based energy storage technologies.   Energy Vault combines innovative design, advanced materials science, and proprietary machine-vision software to orchestrate the storage and dispatch of electrical power by lifting and lowering composite bricks, made from eco-friendly materials.  Energy Vault’s commitment to sustainability is reflected in a unique approach to the circular economy which utilizes local industrial and energy waste, including remediated coal ash and recycled wind blades converted to recyclable materials, to build the system’s composite bricks. Energy Vault innovates to enable the global shift to a world powered by renewable resources.

About Energy Vault
Energy Vault develops and deploys sustainable energy storage solutions designed to transform the world's approach to utility-scale energy storage in realizing decarbonization while maintaining grid resiliency. The company's proprietary gravity-based energy storage technology, battery storage technology, and energy storage management and integration platform are intended to help utilities, independent power producers and large industrial energy users significantly reduce their levelized cost of energy while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial re-use, Energy Vault is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the clean energy transition for its customers. For additional information, please visit: www.energyvault.com.

About the role
As Axial Turbines Engineer you will be responsible for the design and development of axial turbines for our Energy Storage prototypes at our R&D Center located in Switzerland. You will be closely aligned with the technology, operations, engineering, and procurement teams to ensure that axial turbines development efforts support the desired R&D and business’ objectives. You will work with the software provided form Energy Vault to design and optimize turbines based on the needs of the customers. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in AxStream.
 
 
What you will do
·         Develop and design blade geometries for compressors, turbines, and pumps utilizing common CFD software (AxStream)
·         Develop and design flow path geometries
·         Interface with other teams to provide knowledge of turbomachinery within the system and provide systematic solutions as necessary
·         Communicate and collaborate with other departments (mainly technology, engineering, procurement, and operations)
·         Understand R&D concepts and translate them into designs and solutions
·         Shape a culture of collaboration, innovation, constant improvement, excellence, transparency, open mindedness, humility, integrity, efficiency, joy, compassion, and fulfillment.
·         Gain deep understanding of our renewable energy storage industry, our products and technology, our processes, and our people.
 
 
What a qualified candidate should possess
·         5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role
·         Expert user of the following AxSTREAM modules: Project (Database), Export, AxMAP, Axial Turbine Design & Stage Design, Axial Turbine Throughflow Analysis, Axial Profiler & 3D Blade Designer, Axial Compressor Design, Axial Compressor Streamline Analysis, AxSTREAM ION
·         Bachelor /Master degree in Engineering
·         Ability to read technical specifications and designs and translate them into plans and actions
·         Stellar attention to detail
·         Fluency in English is required and Italian understanding is preferred

At Energy Vault we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We believe inclusion creates opportunity for collaborative excellence through diversity of thought. We invite individuals of all genders, races, identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, national origins, abilities, protected veteran status, religions, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore employment with our organization.

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