Experienced Gas Turbines Blades & Vanes Engineer for Service

Location: Germany; Muelheim an der Ruhr and Berlin. The role includes on-site visits when required and approximately 20% travel.

Company

hirify.global develops energy technologies and provides gas turbine service, modernization, digitalization, and decarbonization solutions through its Gas Services division.

What you will do

• Advise service and operations support teams on condition-based lifetime predictions and engineering assessments during gas turbine inspections.
• Support projects with technical clarifications, root cause analyses, and direct customer communication regarding blade and vane issues, including on-site visits when required.
• Develop condition-based risk assessments and mitigation strategies for blade and vane operation, considering material behavior, manufacturing processes, and heat transfer.
• Provide technical guidance on blade and vane installation, component replacement, and operation beyond established limits.
• Perform damage analyses covering mechanical integrity, oxidation behavior, and crack propagation in high-temperature superalloys.
• Evaluate component performance against design expectations and communicate fleet feedback to New Unit Engineering and product management.

Requirements

• Professional experience in engineering or service engineering for rotating machinery, ideally involving components operating under high-temperature conditions.
• Solid knowledge of gas turbine operation and the design principles of turbine blades and vanes.
• Skills or experience in damage analysis, including mechanical integrity assessments, oxidation behavior, and crack propagation in high-temperature superalloys.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication with customers and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Flexibility to participate in a 24/7 engineering hotline on demand.
• Willingness to travel approximately 20%.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.

Nice to have

• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global energy technology organization focused on reliable, sustainable, low-emission power generation and decarbonization.
• Attractive market-aligned remuneration and an employer-financed company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to become a hirify.global shareholder.
• Flexible and remote work opportunities, flexible working-time models, trial part-time work, and sabbaticals.
• Professional development programmes and learning materials, plus childcare places at many locations.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunities and diversity.