DescriptionDesign Engineer IIuses 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 Heater Division located inMontgomery AL.
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 setup 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engineering reports with analysis and summary of findings that will be shared with other departments and archived for historical reference.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 interchangeability service requirements and efficiency and agency requirements.
Qualifications- Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- 35 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 appliance design preferred.
- 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 indepth knowledge of relevant software such as MS Office Suite.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a matrix team environment.
- Knowledge of concepts techniques and tools that promote effective analysis such as Design of Experiments and test to carry out the development of informationgathering 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
- Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
- Knowledge of gas combustion principles.
- Knowledge of heat pump design and heat exchanger optimization.
- Knowledge of analysis & system development tools (e.g. ANSYS/Fluent ANSYS/Mechanical MATLAB LabView Pro/e EnergyPlus GTSUITE etc.
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