About the Role:

As a Machinery Diagnostics Field Engineer, you will be providing customers with complete service solutions to address their critical rotating machinery assets, protection, and monitoring system, in addition to delivering diagnostics trainings after following the certification process. This will include evaluating machinery condition based on rotor dynamic analysis; installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining protection system hardware; installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining monitoring system hardware & software.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership, technical direction, and assistance to the customer, user, and other field personnel in the diagnostic and long-term maintenance of Bently Nevada equipment and customers
  • rotating machinery
• Performing installations, commissioning, and troubleshooting of Bently Nevada Hardware and Software Products and Solutions at customer locations
• Diagnosing machinery problems based upon available data i.e. vibration, process, performance data, maintenance records, customer communications, etc.
• Completing timely standard service reports with documentation of findings / recommendations
• Reacting to customer required travel in a timely manner, while bringing all required service equipment
• Identify proper installation of permanently installed transducers and monitors and be able to install transducers.
• Properly install temporary shaft, casing, optical, and laser-based transducers to acquire additional machinery data, and professionally use MDS data acquisition instruments to acquire field data, this includes ADRE408, Scout, System 1®
• Successfully extract machinery data plots from MDS data acquisition instruments and System 1®.
• Recognize good versus bad machinery vibration data, coupled with the ability to evaluate the overall quality of a data set.
• Recognize and quantify the severity of machinery vibration data in accordance with applicable industry standards (e.g., API, ISO).
• Hands on experience with Field-balancing of critical machinery like steam & gas turbines, generators, compressors, and pumps.
• Perform a simple two-channel impact test using an impact hammer and an appropriate accelerometer to determine natural frequencies of structures, rotors, piping, and machinery support systems.
• Perform and interpret Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) and basic modal analysis.
• Collect data for torsional analysis.
• Adhere to BH HSE at all work sites, and conduct fieldwork in compliance with all applicable regulations, and customer requirements.

Qualifications Requirements:

• Graduate engineer from an accredited institution with a 4-year technical degree. A BSc or MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Machinery Diagnostics Services Field Services.
• Certified Vibration Analyst level 2 or higher from an accredited Institute is preferred.
• Have availability to travel up to 70% of the time, as required.
• Have knowledge or experience with mechanical vibration, rotating machinery vibration and/or diagnostics, rotor dynamic analysis, machinery balancing and alignment.
• Willing to work at customer plant sites for extended hours and travel widely within the geographic region with short notice.
• Ability to work in arduous temperature environments, heights, and perform all tasks wearing required Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Ability to handle the physical strength and agility requirements of the job in accordance with specific job descriptions.
• Ability to interpret and understand machinery mechanical and electrical system drawings and specifications.
• Strong command of oral and written communication in English language, plus formal presentations

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