Staff / Lead Engineer Location: Greenville, MI Reports to: Engineering Leadership Department: Engineering / Refrigeration & Thermal Systems Composition Brands is seeking a Staff / Lead Engineer to serve as the primary technical integrator and system architect for refrigeration platforms. This role establishes engineering standards, sets verification and validation strategies, and drives advanced design-for-robustness practices to ensure platform-level quality, performance, and long-term field reliability across our Marvel, U-Line, and Viking Refrigeration brands. The Staff / Lead Engineer provides the highest level of technical leadership for refrigeration platform development, guiding architecture, reliability, supplier strategy, manufacturing integration, and cross-functional engineering decisions. Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position. Position Overview: The Staff / Lead Engineer provides the highest level of technical leadership for refrigeration platform development, guiding architecture, reliability, supplier strategy, manufacturing integration, and cross-functional engineering decisions from concept through production. Responsibilities: - Establish multi-year platform architectures and technical roadmaps for refrigeration systems, with emphasis on performance efficiency, system robustness, lower-impact refrigerants, and simplified assembly. - Author comprehensive system-level V&V strategies and oversee advanced testing matrices that stress components under extreme environmental conditions, such as high ambient temperatures and door-ajar moisture loading. - Set standards for DFSS, DFM, DFA, DFMEA, and 3D tolerance stack-up processes. Drive strategic BOM structures and master routing design within ERP systems. - Lead executive-level root-cause investigations for complex, systemic failure modes, including frost accumulation, charge leaks, and structural degradation, and implement permanent countermeasures. - Partner with Procurement, Quality, and Supplier Development Engineering to evaluate strategic components such as compressors, heat exchangers, and controls and to optimize capital-tooling capability. - Serve as the top technical authority in Technical Design Reviews, mentor senior engineers, and drive continuous improvement across the engineering organization. Requirements Minimum Qualifications: Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Sciences, or HVAC-R. Experience: 8+ years of technical leadership in thermal systems, HVAC-R, or refrigeration development, or 6+ years with a relevant master's degree. Technical Skills: Expert mastery of thermodynamic cycles, system-level V&V, the SolidWorks/PDM ecosystem, ERP architecture, DFSS methodology, and NPI governance. Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialized focus on thermal-fluid dynamics, refrigeration, or reliability engineering. - 10+ years of consumer or commercial refrigeration platform-development experience. - Demonstrated ability to establish design-for-reliability systems that reduce field-service rates. - Deep technical leadership experience managing multi-site and cross-functional teams through complex engineering-change escalations. Working Conditions: - Ability to work in office, laboratory, and manufacturing environments. - Frequent walking on the production floor and within laboratory areas. - Ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including safety glasses, hearing protection, and safety-toe footwear, as required. Salary Description 80000-115000