Aerothermal CFD Engineer (Gas Turbine Cooling)

Location: Lincoln, United Kingdom; full-time, onsite within the Turbine Engineering function.

Company

hirify.global develops energy technologies, gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and digital service solutions focused on reliable, sustainable power generation and decarbonization.

What you will do

• Analyse and develop cooling designs for gas turbine blades, vanes, and casings for new products and upgrades.
• Work with Mechanical Design and Mechanical Integrity to establish component life and assess the relationship between cooling, stress, creep, and material behaviour.
• Investigate technical issues using root cause analysis, weighted decision analysis, and design of experiments.
• Define component and engine test requirements, process test readings, and calibrate thermal models using test results and operational fleet experience.
• Apply finite element methods and computational fluid dynamics to fluid-flow and heat-transfer problems.
• Produce technical reports, presentations, and method documentation while contributing to tool-chain integration, code validation, delivery improvements, and performance reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with significant heat-transfer or cooling-design content, ideally in automotive, aerospace, or turbomachinery engineering.
• At least five years of relevant engineering experience in heat transfer, cooling design, or thermal analysis for complex mechanical systems.
• Strong understanding of heat-transfer theory, including detailed investigations, simplified one-dimensional methods, and hand calculations for result validation.
• Knowledge of gas turbine component cooling, materials science, investment casting manufacture, secondary air systems, stress, and creep mechanisms.
• Experience applying finite element methods and/or computational fluid dynamics to fluid-flow and heat-transfer problems.
• Ability to work independently and within multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Patran, P-Thermal, RR SC03, ANSYS, Abaqus, STAR-CCM+, CFX, or Fluent.

Culture & Benefits

• 26 days of holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Flexible benefits portal including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Adjustable pension scheme.
• Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
• Opportunity to develop specialist expertise in gas turbine cooling design, thermal analysis, and high-temperature component performance.
• Work in a multidisciplinary Lincoln-based Turbine Engineering team covering design, mechanical integrity, materials, and testing.