Senior Mechanical Engineer

About The Role:

The Senior Mechanical Engineer position is a critical position, and the selected individual will play a key role in the following areas of product development: support HVAC package equipment development, develop qualification plans for refrigeration systems and components, secure product requirement compliance and agency certification. The Senior Mechanical Engineer will actively participate in the New Product Development process applying state-of-art design and simulation tools to optimized refrigeration and fluid in HVAC system, review designs for compliance with product agency regulation, execute testing and verification plans.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a sub-project of a major new product development program or the entire smaller scope new product development program.
• Provide expertise in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fan systems, and thermal management system analysis in the development of next generation high efficiency and environmentally friendly HVAC&R and electronic control systems.
• Develop and execute test and qualification for systems, sub-systems, and components. Review test results in relation to design or rated specifications and test objectives and modify or adjust equipment to meet specifications.
• Provide reliability analysis of components and systems.
• Develop and coordinate engineering documents and release.
• Provide daily direction to supporting Designers & Technicians.
• Prepare presentations for Qualification Review Boards including demonstrating the use of Quality System deployment tools.
• Collaborate with team members from Marketing, Design Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Document process improvements as part of standard engineering work.
• Identification of reliable and cost-effective purchased components required for new product development projects

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree of Science in Systems Engineering or Mechanical Engineering, with 4+ years of relevant mechanical engineer experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or familiarity with various HVAC applications.
• Technical knowledge of refrigeration design, heat transfer, fan systems, structural analysis & electronic control systems. (highly preferred)
• Hands-on experience working in an Engineering design environment.
• Demonstrated system design thinking skills and creative new product design skills.
• Heat transfer and two-phase flow expertise and thermodynamic cycle analytical skills.
• Experience with vapor-compression refrigeration or power generation systems including related components: heat exchangers and compression technologies.
• Experience in the specification, design, development, and manufacture of products in the HVAC, refrigeration, compression or aligned industries is ideal. Previous relevant products can be both residential and/or commercial air conditioners (air cooled or water cooled)
• Project management and interpersonal skills and the ability to work within an engineering design team
• Working knowledge of manufacturing fabrication and assembly methods.
• Working knowledge of industry test and safety standards.
• Experience with model-based design techniques
• Experience integrating and verifying & validating performance of complex systems
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a lean and fast paced environment
• Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams and a diverse cultural environment
• Ability to professionally engage with cross-functional and cross-regional teams to understand and translate product requirements into control system requirements
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts across technical and non-technical organizations
• Ability for developing continuous improvement projects to influence and drive change
• Excellent Follow-up and follow-through skills is a must.
• Demonstrate an ability to deliver successful designs under tight timing constraints.
• Knowledge of CSA/ANSI and UL Standards is a plus. (AHRI, ASHRAE, DOE, EPA, NEC, UL/CSA, etc.)
• Knowledge of SAP and Creo is a plus
• Familiarity with Heat Pumps is a plus

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