Contract Support Performance Engineer (Gas Turbines)

Location: Lincoln, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global develops and services energy technologies, including gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and digital service solutions for reliable and sustainable power generation.

What you will do

• Specify core engine control settings, operational philosophies, and contract-specific requirements from bid stage through customer delivery and acceptance testing.
• Develop and maintain controls specifications, settings documentation, limits, and settings databases.
• Assess engine performance, validate production and development test results, and predict installed site performance for small gas turbines.
• Collaborate with Sales, Bids and Proposals, Core Engineering, Manufacturing, Test, R&D, and Customer Support teams.
• Develop and automate performance prediction methods, data analysis tools, and supporting software.
• Manage engineering documentation and approvals while communicating technical information to internal teams, customers, and management.

Requirements

• Master’s-level qualification or above in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent industrial experience.
• Strong knowledge of mathematics, physics, numerical analysis, and statistical investigation, with the ability to analyse large technical datasets.
• Understanding of gas turbine simple-cycle operation and basic thermodynamic calculations, or willingness to develop this knowledge.
• Experience with engineering software, data analysis tools, or programming, ideally including VBA, MATLAB, C#, FORTRAN, or Visual Basic.
• Experience or interest in prediction modelling, database management, process automation, performance testing, instrumentation limitations, or controls specification.
• Strong communication, report-writing, and presentation skills, with the ability to work independently or in project teams under deadline pressure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a specialist performance and thermodynamics group supporting industrial small gas turbine products.
• Contribute to projects focused on sustainability, decarbonization, reliability, and energy efficiency.
• 26 days of holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Flexible benefits including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Adjustable pension scheme, career development, and continuous learning opportunities.