Thermal Design Engineer (Up to 2 Yrs)

Thermal Design Engineer (Up to 2 Yrs)

John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of our time: facilitating access to 
low-carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures. 

Its offer to companies, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defense, industry, environment, transport and infrastructures. 

With more than 8 200 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1.649 billion in 2025 in 27 countries, on 5 continents.

Overview

 

The Design Engineer is an employee in charge of the basic design of the products of the Energy Sector of John Cockerill. He/She proceeds to the thermal and mechanical design of HRSG’s (Heat Recovery Steam Generators) for the proposals department and executes the detailed engineering during project execution from the award of an order to the provisional acceptance of the equipment. The Design Engineer is particularly responsible to ensure that the design of the product is compliant to the calculation request, to applicable codes and norms, to the contractual technical specifications and to internal standards as defined in the Design Process according to the QMS (quality management system) of the Energy Sector.

 

Objectives

 

The Design Engineer is responsible for the sizing and the detailed design of products for proposals and project execution under the hierarchical responsibility of the Design Manager and the functional responsibility of the Technical Project Manager with the following objectives:

• Customer satisfaction,
• Conformance to applicable codes and norms, contractual scope of supply, Customer’s technical specifications, internal standards and local regulations,
• Quality, conformity and completeness of the technical documentation,
• Respect of document delivery schedules,
• Optimization of the design,
• Control of internal and external interfaces.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

 

The duties of the Design Engineer are amongst others:

• Application of the Design Process,
• Sizing of products for the proposals of the Energy Sector of John Cockerill,
• Detailed design of products during project execution,
• Optimization of the design,
• Conformity of the technical documentation to applicable codes and norms,
• Respect of Customer specifications and requirements,
• Technical risks assessments,
• Application of internal standards and good practices,
• Delivery of the technical documentation to the Project Team according to the project schedule and within the specified budget.

 

 

Competencies

 

The Design Engineer has a specialist profile. He/She must be available for temporary missions, sometimes on short notice, including international travels.

 

He/She adheres to the essential values of John Cockerill:

 

• Human
• Committed
• Innovative
• Responsible
• Customer oriented

 

His/Her soft skills are:

 

• Analytical mind
• Detailed focused
• Team spirit
• Information sharing
• Decision taking
• Creative and innovative
• Results oriented
• Organized and rigorous
• Schedule oriented
• Problem solving
• Comfortable with international contacts and relationships
• Ability to work under pressure
• Assertiveness

 

His/Her technical skills are:

 

• Understanding of international codes and norms (ASME, ISO and EN)
• Technical skills related to products (thermal, mechanical design, Thermodynamics)
• Knowledge of steel materials
• Ability to read mechanical drawings
• Application of internal technical choices
• Understanding of his professional environment
• Understanding of product and organization interfaces
• Knowledge of the MS Office, particularly Excel
• Fluent in English (reading, speaking, listening)

John Cockerill offers you career and development opportunities within its various sectors in a friendly working environment. 
Do you want to work for an innovative company that will allow you to take up technical challenges on a daily basis?
We look forward to receiving your application and to meeting you!
 

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Experience Level

Mid Level