Tech Lead - Modeling and Simulation

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Job Title

Technical Lead – Modeling and Simulation

Location

Bangalore, India

About Us

We design and manufacture premium electric and pneumatic power tools, air motors, engine starters, and material handling and lifting equipment. The challenges of keeping the products small and lightweight (especially the handheld power tools), while delivering high performance and durability, make our work exciting. We enjoy providing our customers with ergonomic products that improve their capabilities and quality of life. Collaboration is a key factor in our success and we all have plenty to learn and to teach.

Job Summary

As a member of the Advanced Engineering team, this mechanical engineering role is aimed at assuring product integrity and accelerating the development of New Products through application of analytical, including simulation, skills. In addition, support for New Technology Investigation is included in this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely and accurate Analytical support for New Product Development Teams to aid in design decisions.
• Utilize computational tools to simulate product stresses and strains during operation and foreseeable misuse, including product drops. Identify highly stressed areas and design features, and work with Product Designers and Engineers to improve designs, using analysis to show expected improvements.
• Perform life predictions utilizing FEA, historical endurance test results, and fatigue theory; improve predictive capability with regard to the Precision Fastening (PF) and Vehicle Service and Industrial (VSI) product lines. Utilize and improve existing predictive tools.
• Perform Experimental Design and Analysis to improve Technology Understanding Level (TUL) for life prediction of highly stressed PF and VSI power trains.
• Support all Power Tool and Lifting product lines, collaborating with team members regarding life predictions of high speed mechanisms; participate in development of associated analytical and design tools.
• Work with design engineers and designers to capture product development methodologies and to develop and share associated design tools.
• Support New Technology Investigation / Introduction to maintain technology leadership in identified product areas.
• Explain analytical approaches to Product Design staff to support creative problem solving. Provide occasional technical training short courses to educate and to improve employee engagement.

Basic Qualifications

Travel & Work Arrangements / Requirements

Site-based with some hybrid work possible based on the current policies at the IR Bangalore facility.

Key Competencies

Essential Skills

Desired Skills

What We Offer

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE : IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.

Skills Required

ANSYS FEA, Experimental Design and Analysis, LS-DYNA