Applications Engineer - Stellar Energy

About the role

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world.

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Where is the work

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

The Applications Engineer, Stellar Energy is responsible for supporting the proposal, design, and execution phases of the business as required. Assigned projects could span multiple vertical markets, including Power Generation, Oil and Gas, Data Centers, Mission Critical, District Cooling, and Combined Heat and Power.

Specific functions include (but are not limited to): analyzing project-specific weather profiles, building thermal performance modes, predicting/estimating output, efficiency, environmental impact, carrying out sensitivity analysis, technical writing, specification reviews, and equipment/process calculations.

Essential Functions

• Undertake engineering and design work independently.
• Analyze and calculate the optimum weather design point based on project specific location.
• Design and specify the process around the optimum design point.
• Develop and improve thermal performance analysis tools to understand system performance.
• Analyze, calculate and present the financial advantages and disadvantages to leadership.
• Present and review various technical solutions with clients.
• Contribute to the business development process and work with engineering and operations to prepare studies on internal products and services.
• Participate in all facets of projects and pursuits including bid support, presentation support, augmentation philosophy development and competitor evaluations.
• Provide technical support to sales and marketing for bids and proposals, such as performance analysis, schematics, equipment selection and specification review.
• Create ROR/ROI models to support internal bid strategies, present to external clients and to prepare external publication materials for marketing purposes.

Competencies

• Technical Capacity.
• Highly Organized.
• Problem Solving/Analysis.
• Financial Analysis Capabilities
• Excellent presentations skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, internally and externally.

Travel

• Anticipated up to 5% travel for this position.
• Some occasional local day travel may also be necessary.
• Occasional travel to customer job sites and conferences may be required.

Required Education and Experience.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited University with focus on thermodynamics, heat transfer, or energy systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
• Advanced Excel skills particularly with macros and VBA.
• Familiarity with design procedures and inter-discipline communication.
• Familiarity with engineering deliverables (P&IDs, Single Line Diagrams, General Arrangements, etc.).

Preferred Education and Experience

• Proficiency with GT Pro/GT Master software, Ebsilon Professional, EtaPro, GateCcle, Pepse or similar thermodynamic modelling tools
• 3+ years of industry experience in thermal design, engineering specifically working with Gas Turbine OEMs (preferably knowledgeable in all Gas Turbine OEMs product offerings), Utility Owners, IPPs, EPCs, Technical advisory firms etc.
• Understanding of Thermal Power Plant processes, equipment, and the interrelationships between them.
• Understanding of thermodynamics, heat and mass balance equations, and performance correction curves as applied to simple cycle and combined cycle gas turbine gas turbines plants.
• Experience with thermal performance guarantee test calculation, and ASME PTC codes. Master of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited University with focus on thermodynamics, heat transfer, and energy systems
• Familiarity with combustion turbine operation in power generation and/or oil and gas operation.
• Familiarity with the US power and energy markets.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range

• $84,740.00 - $137,200.00
• Compensation Type: Salary
• Incentive Eligible: Yes
• Sales Commission Eligible: No