Senior Product Development Engineer

Houston 15115 Park Row Suite 160 Houston, TX 77084, USA

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Product Development Engineer to support the development and enhancement of our existing gas production products and new solutions across our industrial gas portfolio. This role is responsible for being a key member of matrixed teams throughout product life cycles, driving cross‑functional development efforts, and supporting the Product Development Manager in discerning market and customer needs across sectors such as manufacturing, chemicals, and electronics.

This key position will support multi‑functional teams to develop new products that fuel Messer’s growth, understanding macro‑market trends and internal focus areas to develop and lead the execution of a thorough strategy that positions Messer for continued success in key markets.

This position will support activities such as technology selection, scope and schedule development, cost estimation, P&n and review, and development of project definition and execution strategy.

• Execute the development of products for ASU, CO2 and Electronics opportunities for Messer Gases with primary focus on delivering consistent, high quality, practical solutions in support of new business.
• Support the research and development of a standard package of proposal deliverables (technical documentation, scope split matrices, cost estimating forms, detailed schedules, project execution strategies, etc.) consistent with the ASU, CO2 and Electronics asset base proposal suite developed by the Project Engineering and Execution Team.
• Interface & influence with the Product Development Manager to ensure strategic and tactical alignment of solutions, project scopes and business cases.
• Interface with Proposal Managers and Project Managers to incorporate best practices and lessons learned into new product offerings.
• Participate in reviews with various Messer business development managers, Engineering, Reliability, Production, and Legal Group to ensure technical, financial, and operational details of proposed solutions are aligned with customer needs and Messer interests.
• Develop capital estimates with the appropriate level of accuracy for proposed products, including gross‑order‑of‑magnitude estimates to determine go/no go decisions in the project feasibility phase.
• Coordinate visits to plant sites as required to survey local conditions and secure data for preparation of proposals.
• Attend bi‑monthly proposal review meetings with appropriate Production, Reliability, Tonnage, Electronics, and other Messer resources to ensure workload forecasts, actual work progress, and proposal commitments have the proper visibility and are aligned with available supporting resources.
• Participate in qualifying vendors, negotiating vendor pricing and standard terms and conditions in conjunction with Supply Mgt.
• Review past projects and work with existing vendors to standardize, modularize, and package equipment and skids to promote shop fabrication, installation, and wiring in order to reduce required field time.

• Must be willing to travel (10% of time) or as business requires.
• Think at the strategic level, but comfortable working in the details to influence stakeholders and develop the organization.
• Knowledge of engineering rules‑of‑thumb, scaling factors, equipment lead times, construction scopes and durations for greenfield facilities.
• Knowledge of codes and regulations as they pertain to industrial gas projects, i.e. ASME particularly B31.3, NEC, building codes, permitting experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and teach engineers.
• Ability to work independently and develop aligned strategic solutions with business management groups, engineering support staff, and plant personnel.
• Ability to support, develop, and maintain relationships with outside specialist consultants / engineering firms.
• Demonstrated ability to develop a complicated technical scope, and associated schedules and budgets.
• Knowledge of FEL/Stage/Gate project management methodology (PMBOK), and Project Management software and tools (including but not limited to Excel, Word, PowerPoint,…