Highlights
The Senior Hot Section Durability Engineer is a technical leader responsible for ensuring combustor and turbine gas-path components meet time-on-wing, repairability, and Hot Section Refurbishment Interval (HSRI) requirements while maintaining performance, fuel efficiency, manufacturability, and cost goals. Hand on Experience in using CAD tools like NX or Creo; Pogramming capabilities in Python and MatLab, or the equivalent; Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science , or related field; Master s or PhD strongly preferred.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | East Hartford, CT |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
Description
Tekfortune is a fast-growing consulting firm specialized in permanent, contract & project-based staffing services for world s leading organizations in a broad range of industries. In this quickly changing economic landscape, virtual recruiting and remote work are critical for the future of work. To support the active project demands and skills gaps, our staffing experts can help you find the best job for you.
Position: Turbine Durability Engineer
Location: East Hartford, CT
The Senior Hot Section Durability Engineer is a technical leader responsible for ensuring combustor and turbine gas-path components meet time-on-wing, repairability, and Hot Section Refurbishment Interval (HSRI) requirements while maintaining performance, fuel efficiency, manufacturability, and cost goals. This role spans the full product life cycle from early concept design and optimization through development engine testing, certification, field support, and aftermarket engineering.
Hot Section Durability Engineers design and assess advanced high-temperature hardware such as turbine airfoils, blade outer air seals (BOAS), combustor liner panels, and cast heat exchangers.
Key Responsibilities
For more information and other jobs available please contact our recruitment team at
Position: Turbine Durability Engineer
Location: East Hartford, CT
The Senior Hot Section Durability Engineer is a technical leader responsible for ensuring combustor and turbine gas-path components meet time-on-wing, repairability, and Hot Section Refurbishment Interval (HSRI) requirements while maintaining performance, fuel efficiency, manufacturability, and cost goals. This role spans the full product life cycle from early concept design and optimization through development engine testing, certification, field support, and aftermarket engineering.
Hot Section Durability Engineers design and assess advanced high-temperature hardware such as turbine airfoils, blade outer air seals (BOAS), combustor liner panels, and cast heat exchangers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead durability strategy for turbine and combustor components, ensuring compliance with time-on-wing, repairability, and HSRI targets.
- Responsible for design and assessment of turbine airfoils, BOAS, combustor liners including internal cooling schemes, film cooling technologies, thermal barrier coatings, and advanced materials.
- Develop and execute analyses of varying complexity, including:
- Mechanical, time-dependent damage predictions (creep, oxidation, TBC spallation, TMF).
- Full conjugate heat transfer (CHT) and coupled aerothermal-structural simulations.
- Reduced-order empirical models and 1D thermal models for rapid design iteration.
- Evaluate the durability impact of complex internal cores, cooling geometries, and advanced manufacturing processes.
- Conduct and lead root-cause investigations using new, returned, and repaired hardware to understand field performance, distress progression, and failure mechanisms.
- Provide technical leadership in design reviews, safety boards, and program milestones; mentor junior engineers on durability methods and best practices.
- Support manufacturing and supply chain by understanding process capabilities, anticipated variability, and implications for durability and quality.
- Develop and refine internal tools, models, and methodologies to accelerate durability assessments and improve prediction fidelity.
- Deep understanding of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, including convection, conduction, radiation, and aerothermal loads on hot-section components.
- Strong knowledge of material properties and high-temperature distress mechanisms, including:
- Thermal barrier coating (TBC) spallation
- Bond coat and substrate oxidation
- Airfoil creep
- Thermomechanical fatigue (TMF), LCF/HCF interactions
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes and their variability, including:
- Core die tooling and internal passage formation
- Investment casting of superalloys
- Advanced coating systems
- Cooling hole drilling and finishing processes
- Ability to model durability impacts of environmental and mission factors, such as sand ingestion, corrosion, and high-cycle thermal transients.
- Proficiency with finite element analysis (FEA) and heat transfer tools; experience with conjugate analyses and coupled physics is preferred.
- Experience with commercial FEA software (e.g., ANSYS Structural and Thermal Analysis using both Workbench AND ADPL) and life analysis codes.
- Hand on Experience in using CAD tools like NX or Creo;
- Pogramming capabilities in Python and MatLab, or the equivalent;
- Bachelor s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field; Master s or PhD strongly preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in hot-section turbine, combustor, or high-temperature component durability.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex durability analyses, investigations, and cross-functional decision making.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence design, manufacturing, and program leadership.
For more information and other jobs available please contact our recruitment team at
careers@tekfortune.com
. To view all the jobs available in the USA and Asia please visit our website at https://www.tekfortune.com/careers/.About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.