FM · 10 hours ago
Senior Research Engineer – Mechanical
Norwood, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expFM is a leading mutual insurance company dedicated to property risk management and resilience for its policyholder-owners. The role involves assessing risks of complex industrial equipment and developing methodologies for risk mitigation and loss prevention while collaborating with the equipment and material science team.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsuranceRisk Management
Responsibilities
Review loss data in various formats and develop trends and insights for major industrial equipment such as gas turbines, steam turbines, wind turbines, generators, transformers, boilers and pressure vessels, and other rotating or stationary heavy-duty machinery in high hazard industries and renewable industries
Work closely with the team lead, staff engineering, and operation engineering to support understanding of contributing factors and root causes of major equipment losses as needed, provide expert input on technical issues and engineering risk assessment
Assess/evaluate risk mitigation technologies and develop in-house methodologies, to prevent or reduce equipment loss, including tools or job-aids using physics-based and/or data analytics driven approaches
Support the development and revisions of relevant FM Operating Standards
Develop, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot tools and testing setups including equipment, devices, instrumentation, network, and software, for various electromechanical applications such as equipment condition monitoring
Support the development of condition monitoring experiments and test cases using various hardware and software-based methods, to evaluate system efficacy and emulate/simulate/analyze faulty or failure conditions of complex equipment and engineering systems
Develop solid and fluid mechanics models (FEA and/or CFD) as needed to assess thermal and mechanical properties of systems, components, and material coupons
Lead or support experimental works for the evaluation of mechanical properties of systems, components, and coupons, interpret and evaluate test results
Develop research technical reports or memos under the guidance of technical lead
Propose and develop feasible, relevant, and value-added research topics or project ideas including potential collaborations with internal and external entities
Qualification
Required
Doctoral degree in mechanical engineering (or other fields of science and engineering with the right experience / exposure) with at least 5 years of industrial experience or a Master degree with at least 10 years of industrial experience, in the field of mechanical engineering, preferably rotating machinery
Strong hands-on knowledge and experience in several engineering functions related to industrial equipment including product design, analysis, testing, operation, maintenance, inspection, continuous monitoring, and troubleshooting
Strong engineering fundamentals such as heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, engineering mechanics especially vibration/dynamics and mechanics of failure, at material, component, and system levels, engineering design and analysis with software and programming, as well as instrumentation and experimentation
Knowledge and experience in data modeling/analytics including physics or rule-based methods, statistical methods, machine learning and AI methods, for applications in risk assessment, risk differentiation, fault detection and diagnostics, etc
Strong accountability, through strength in attention to details, problem-solving, result delivery, and sufficient project management skills
Strong self-driven work ethics and work under general advisory but not close supervision
Strong verbal and written communication including presentation skills, facing management and leaders, colleagues, advisors, customers, collaborators, and technology providers/vendors
Strong collaboration and team working spirit, receptive, transparent, and respectful
Benefits
Incentive plan
Generous health and well-being programs
401(k)
Pension plan
Career development opportunities
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work
Time off allowances
Company
For nearly 200 years, FM has empowered businesses worldwide to manage risk, prevent loss, and build resilience.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$8.04M2010-05-05Series Unknown· $8.04M
Leadership Team
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Mike Lebovitz
Retired
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