Job DescriptionThe
Design Engineer III - HVAC uses engineering techniques to design, maintain, or improve new or existing products and/or components for engineering projects within the area of assigned responsibility.
This position will serve our
Water Heating Division, located in
Montgomery, AL. Relocation assistance is available.
Responsibilities- Analyzes engineering sketches, specifications and related data and drawings to determine design factors such as size, shape and arrangement of parts.
- Sketches rough layouts and computes angles, weights, surface areas, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances, leverages and location of holes.
- Plan, coordinate, and check engineering changes prior to supervisory signature release to production.
- Investigate and troubleshoot product design related problems and opportunities, documenting findings and performing corrective/improvement changes.
- Reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, agency standards, company standards and customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
- Develop agency certification submittals and coordinate available testing with internal and external laboratories.
- Develop evaluation test plans and coordinate with engineering designers and lab test engineers on test set-up, data acquisition, interpretation of data and means for achieving desired test results.
- Write detailed engineering reports with analysis and summary of findings that will be shared with other departments and archived for historical reference.
- Investigate pertinent factors such as inter-changeability, service requirements, and efficiency and agency requirements.
Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 5 years of experience in design and manufacture of products
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating, and maintenance instructions and procedures.
- Ability to work with mathematic concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
- Strong reasoning and analytical skills (ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variable in situations)
- Experience in engineering/manufacturing change processes.
- Experience in working with governing certification standards and agencies preferred.
- Experience in manufacturing processes engineering and engineering computer systems including SolidWorks modeling software.
- Occasional travel required.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficient computer skills and in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as MS Office Suite.
- Knowledge of concepts, techniques and tools that promote effective analysis, such as Design of Experiments and test engineering.
- Ability to carry out the development of information-gathering exercises for the purpose of investigating a system or process in a manufacturing environment and determine the root cause of problems. Knowledge of, and the ability to use, tools and techniques for analyzing and documenting logical relationships among data, processes or events.
- Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design in the manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of existing and advanced methodologies, processes, tools and techniques of product development; ability to design, build and manage the manufacture of new products.
- Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics and ability to plan, organize, monitor, and lead projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
- Knowledge of cost improvement projects
HOW TO STAND OUT- Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
- Experience in appliance design.
- Knowledge of gas combustion principles.
- Knowledge of heat pump, HVAC design and heat exchanger optimization along with refrigeration experience.
- Knowledge of HVAC design principles and vapor compression.
- Knowledge of analysis & system development tools (e.g. ANSYS/Fluent, ANSYS/Mechanical, MATLAB, LabView, Pro/e, EnergyPlus, GT-SUITE, etc.)
- Experience in working with governing certification standards and agencies preferred.
As a leader at Rheem, how you achieve results is as important as the results you achieve. While LEADING OTHERS, you will be expected to demonstrate the following competencies and behaviors:
- Aligning Performance for Success
- Applying Business Knowledge
- Building Talent
- Building Trusting Relationships
- Communicating with Impact
- Customer-Orientation
- Delegating Tasks
- Executing/Leading the Team
- Facilitating Change
- Fostering Relationships/Emotional Intelligence
- Influencing
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Supporting Innovation
#LI-FM1
#LI-Hybrid
