Principal R&D Engineer Visa Sponsorship Jobs in North Carolina

BH Job ID: 5596

SF Job Req ID: 21450

Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Location: Charleroi, PA; Quincy, IL or Davidson, NC

About us

Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planet. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gases, and powders – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end markets, including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.

Job Overview

As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer supporting centrifugal blowers, you will provide hands-on product engineering and technical leadership for centrifugal blower products and related industrial equipment. This role combines detailed sustaining engineering with advanced analysis, testing, engineering-tool development, and ownership of complex product, manufacturing, supplier, and field issues.

You will move between drawings, bills of material, engineering changes, shop-floor troubleshooting, test work, analytical studies, and cross-functional coordination. The successful candidate is highly self-directed and able to establish the technical path, coordinate the right resources, and drive difficult work through closure with limited day-to-day direction.

Responsibilities

• Own complex sustaining-engineering, manufacturing, supplier, test, and field problems from initial definition through investigation, corrective action, documentation, and closure.
• Provide hands-on engineering support for centrifugal blowers, blower packages, and related mechanical systems, including work in production, assembly, and test environments.
• Create and revise three-dimensional models, engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, and product documentation.
• Prepare and process engineering changes while maintaining accurate design records and product configuration.
• Lead root-cause investigations and develop practical corrective actions that balance technical quality, schedule, cost, manufacturing, and customer needs.
• Plan and execute mechanical, performance, vibration, temperature, pressure, and functional testing.
• Develop test plans, test specifications, acceptance criteria, data-reduction methods, and test reports.
• Investigate and apply applicable performance-test methods and standards, including ASME PTC 10 and ASME PTC 13 where relevant.
• Perform or lead advanced engineering analysis such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, rotor dynamics, vibration analysis, thermal analysis, and blower-performance evaluation based on project needs and individual expertise.
• Analyze test and field data, reconcile differences between predictions and measured results, and document technical conclusions and recommendations.
• Identify repetitive or inefficient engineering processes and develop calculators, scripts, automated workflows, or internal engineering applications to improve speed, consistency, and capability.
• Provide technical project ownership across Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, Service, Product Management, Application Engineering, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain priorities, action items, technical risks, and follow-up needed to drive assigned work to completion, and communicate schedule or resource concerns early.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers and support design reviews and engineering decision-making.
• Support product quality, cost reduction, standardization, obsolescence, and design-improvement activities.
• Improve engineering standards, templates, calculators, test methods, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in product design, sustaining engineering, testing, rotating equipment, or industrial machinery. Demonstrated capability and ownership are more important than a rigid year requirement.
• 2+ years in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics of materials, and machine design.
• 2+ years of experience creating or revising three-dimensional models, engineering drawings, specifications, tolerances, and bills of material.
• 2+ years of experience supporting manufactured or assembled mechanical products and resolving production, supplier, test, or field issues.
• 2+ years of experience with technical project ownership, including planning engineering work, coordinating across functions, maintaining priorities and action items, and communicating technical or schedule risks.
• 1+ year of demonstrated analytical engineering capability in at least one relevant area, such as CFD, FEA, rotor dynamics, vibration, thermal analysis, fluid-flow analysis, testing, or rotating-equipment performance.

Core Competencies

• Ownership and follow-through in driving ambiguous, complex technical issues through documented closure.
• Application of sound mechanical engineering fundamentals to hands-on sustaining, analysis, testing, and design work.
• Practical problem-solving that balances product performance, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, cost, and customer needs.
• Data-driven decision making using analysis, test results, production information, supplier input, and field performance.
• Technical project leadership across cross-functional stakeholders without requiring direct supervisory authority.
• Clear communication of technical conclusions, risks, priorities, actions, and resource needs.
• Continuous improvement through reusable engineering standards, tools, methods, calculators, and documentation.
• Technical guidance and mentoring that helps less-experienced engineers develop sound engineering judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own complex technical problems and drive them through closure with limited day-to-day direction.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and willingness to perform detailed sustaining work as well as advanced technical work.
• Experience developing and executing test plans or test specifications and analyzing measured data.
• Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to engineering and non-engineering audiences.

Preferences

• Experience with centrifugal or multistage blowers, compressors, pumps, fans, turbines, vacuum equipment, or other rotating machinery.
• Experience with CFD software and aerodynamic or internal-flow analysis.
• Experience with FEA, rotor-dynamic and bearing analysis, vibration and acoustic troubleshooting, or thermal analysis.
• Knowledge of ASME PTC 10, ASME PTC 13, or comparable rotating-equipment performance-test standards.
• Experience developing engineering calculators, data-reduction programs, automated workflows, or internal engineering applications.
• Experience using Python, MATLAB, VBA, or similar tools for engineering analysis and automation.
• Experience using company-approved AI-assisted development tools for coding, data review, research, or technical documentation.
• Experience using Creo, Inventor, SolidWorks, or a similar three-dimensional CAD system.
• Experience using Windchill, SAP, or comparable PLM and ERP tools.
• Hands-on use of vibration analyzers, pressure transducers, flow-measurement equipment, temperature instruments, electrical measurement equipment, or data-acquisition systems.
• Experience with castings, machined components, fabricated assemblies, bearings, seals, shafts, impellers, gears, or lubrication systems.
• Experience leading root-cause investigations using 5-Why, fishbone analysis, fault-tree analysis, or 8D.
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership without direct supervisory responsibility.

Travel & Work Arrangements

• Hybrid position based in Charleroi, PA; Quincy, IL or Davidson, NC. Two remote days per week of your choosing.
• Regular on-site interaction with engineering, manufacturing, production, assembly, and test activities is required.
• Occasional travel may be required to support suppliers, customers, field investigations, or other company locations.

What We Offer

At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency.