Pressure Vessel Design Engineer - ASME Section VIII in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania at R-V Industries

Honey Brook, PA

$110,000–$120,000 per year

Full-Time | On-Site

Achilles is recruiting a Pressure Vessel Design Engineer for a manufacturer that designs and fabricates custom ASME Section VIII pressure vessels and industrial process equipment. This is a hands-on mechanical engineering role covering pressure-vessel design, code calculations, detailed drawings, technical documentation, manufacturing support, and customer interaction. Direct ASME pressure-vessel experience is highly valuable, but we are also open to a strong engineer from an adjacent field such as process equipment, heat exchangers, piping, reactors, structural equipment, or similar engineered systems who wants to develop deeper expertise in code-vessel design.

• Design pressure vessels and related components to ASME Section VIII requirements

• Perform and document engineering calculations for shells, heads, nozzles, flanges, supports, and external-pressure conditions

• Develop complete vessel designs and fabrication drawing packages

• Review customer purchase orders, specifications, drawings, and technical requirements

• Select appropriate materials for code construction

• Create bills of material and specifications for purchased components

• Maintain calculation and code-documentation packages

• Support Authorized Inspector reviews and code documentation

• Work with manufacturing, welding, quality, NDE, testing, purchasing, project management, and sales

• Support hydrostatic and pneumatic testing requirements

• Resolve technical questions during fabrication

• Communicate directly with customers on vessel design and code-related requirements

• Participate in design reviews and help improve engineering standards

• 3+ years of progressive mechanical design engineering experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

• 3+ years using SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, or similar CAD software to produce fabrication drawings

• Strong mechanical-design fundamentals

• Experience creating engineering calculations and detailed technical documentation

• Ability to take ownership of technically complex engineered equipment

Experience in one or more of the following is highly valuable:

• ASME Section VIII pressure-vessel design

• Shell, head, nozzle, or flange calculations

• Carbon steel, stainless steel, or nickel-alloy construction

• Reactors, columns, heat exchangers, or process equipment

• Jacketed vessels

• Compress

• PV Elite

• NozzlePRO

• Other Codeware tools

You do not need to already be an expert in every item above. A strong mechanical engineer with relevant adjacent-equipment experience can be trained on ASME Section VIII and Compress. Experience with welding symbols, GD&T, EIT certification, or a PE license is a plus.

This position is based on-site in Honey Brook, PA.