Salary Range: 140000 to 160000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Energy Recovery (NASDAQ: ERII) creates technologies that solve complex challenges for industrial fluid-flow markets worldwide. Building on our pressure exchanger technology platform, we design and manufacture solutions that make industrial processes more efficient and sustainable. What began as a game-changing invention for desalination has grown into a global business advancing the environmental sustainability of customers’ operations in multiple industries. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Energy Recovery has manufacturing, research and development facilities across California and Texas with sales and on-site technical support available globally. For more information, please visit www.energyrecovery.com.

Job Summary:

Energy Recovery is seeking a qualified candidate for an immediate full-time job opening for the position of Experimental & Validation Engineer Manager, reporting to the Sr. Director of Product and Sustaining Engineering within the Engineering department in San Leandro, CA facility. The Engineering department is a dynamic group of engineers and technicians with a wide range of backgrounds. We are looking for talented and energetic candidates who thrive in a team environment. The candidate will work in multidisciplinary teams on clean-sheet designs to develop disruptive technologies based on proprietary isobaric pressure exchanges. This position’s responsibilities are managing a team of engineers and specialized technician as they develop and execute experiments to validate novel applications or improvements to existing technologies and upgrading and maintaining our in-house test loops. In this role, the candidate and the respective team will work closely with a group of engineers to transition system & equipment models into practical proofs.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

The Experimental Engineering manager will support engineering studies and design verification activities
Lead the team as they execute testing plans in designated timelines and within budgets
Design new test loops and upgrades to preexisting ones
Develop new/innovative experimental techniques in order to breakdown & resolve difficult engineering challenges.
Evaluate reliability of pressure exchanger technologies and supporting equipment within a system.
Manage the working relationships with all internal and external customers
Test pressure exchangers to be used in CO2-based applications (refrigeration, heat pump etc..)
Perform studies of pressure exchangers used in reverse osmosis desalination
Lead performance evaluation of pressure exchangers deployed in industrial wastewater applications.
Develop junior team members towards professional maturity.
Create policies and procedures necessary to ensure quality, efficient and cost-effective experimentation.
Cultivate and sustain a culture of safety within the team
All other duties as assigned

Skills & Requirements:

B.S. Degree or higher, preferably Mechanical Engineering or similar fields
7+ years in a testing or implementation role
Experience with Solidworks and Labview
Experience with test instrumentation (Pressure & Temperature Transducer, Flow Meter, Proximity Probe, Accelerometer, etc.…)
Data acquisition systems and hardware, NI Compact DAQ (cDAQ), NI Compact RIO (cRIO), NI MAX.
Familiarity with pump and turbine mechanical/hydraulic design, highly preferred.
Demonstrated skills utilizing CAD modeling (Solidworks) for design, generating drawings/layouts, as well as GD&T.
Must possess a demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, under pressure and with tight deadlines, manage multiple tasks, and be goal-oriented.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Position requires up to 10% domestic & international travel.

The below range is the range that we reasonably believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California. This range may be modified in the future. The salary range for this role is $135,000 to $150,000.

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