Mechanical Engineer

Job Description

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defense, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

Under direct or indirect supervision performs a variety of engineering and design tasks requiring application of standard techniques and procedures.

Uses engineering judgment and responsibility to resolve customer inquiries.

• Review & processing of application requests.
• Following standard techniques and procedures, selection / application of standard or special products to meet customers' needs, including seals, fluid control products, couplings, filters, bearings.
• Generation of engineering proposals / specifications for standard or special products, including determining cost-effective materials for production.
• Seal calculations (including leakage calculations, heat generation, balance temp, flow rates etc.)
• More advanced use of CSTEDY & similar tools for in-depth design analysis.
• Fluid control calculations as required
• Couplings calculations as required
• Other engineering calculations as required
• Provide applications guidance to CAD Engineers to complete layout (GA) and detail drawings
• Prepare material and other relevant product specifications for internal and external use.
• Field troubleshooting, including analysis of problems / recommendation & implementation of appropriate solutions, meeting with customers in plant or at customer’s site to resolve satisfactorily.
• Detailed failure analysis activities, including investigation / reporting / resolution.
• Approve / reject purchase or manufacture of fabricated parts not to drawing specification ("quality clinics").

• Support the transition of a product from development into production.
• Creation of test specifications & plans.
• Product assembly / disassembly – including seals / couplings / bearings / others as appropriate to role.
• Installation of products on to test rigs.
• Manage / perform / monitor various forms of static / dynamic seal test projects to specified test criteria, whether as part of product development or for customer-specific tests.
• Recording of test results.
• Creation of test reports.
• Evaluation of test results.
• General support to lab / test activities as required, e.g. preparation & commissioning of test rigs, preparation of seal components (this may include lapping & polishing and other processes at times), design of test adaptors / fixtures, & other relevant CAD design work, maintenance of test facilities & associated plant etc.
• Support internal and external practical training, customer visits and customer witness tests as required.
• Contribute to quality reporting / CAR process, reporting back to other parts of the business as appropriate.
• Along with the other team members, contribute to maintaining a safe and efficient working environment, including following appropriate HSE procedures / performance of risk assessments as appropriate.
• Along with other team members, promote a culture of continuous improvement in Lab housekeeping, work processes etc.

• Detailed technical presentations to customers in order to support sales.
• Deliver basic technical training externally to customers as required.
• Manage and report personal workload, forecast job…