Mechanical Engineer – Customer Focused Team

Job Description Form - Mechanical Engineer (USA - San Francisco)

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Position:

Mechanical Engineer Customer Focused Team

Department:

Engineering

Position Summary

The Mechanical Engineer - Customer Focused Team works closely with key customers to design new and innovative Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs). The position involves working closely with a key customer and a small advance team of driven and highly capable professionals to fully understand the customers needs use case and other product requirements coming to a common understanding and agreement on project scope requirements and setting initial design direction. After initial agreement the customer focused team Mechanical Engineer remains a core team member throughout the full CDU design and new product introduction (NPI) lifecycle.

In addition to maintaining a close relationship with the key customer you will make major and ongoing contributions to the CDU mechanical design collaborate with various internal and external teams and partners and ensure the customer interested are kept front and center during the product design. This role requires strong interpersonal and communication skills and excellent mechanical engineering thermodynamics and fluid mechanics skills.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the key customer.
• Lead the early-stage NPI design of Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) as part of a customer-focused team during concept development supporting a common understanding of product specifications requirements and design approach.
• Take a major role in initial product design using principles of thermodynamics fluid mechanics and mechanical engineering to deliver accurate performance models that support fast decision cycles for product architecture and direction.
• Support rapid iteration of design concepts through technology assessment feasibility analysis and proofs of concept oversee the building and testing of thermal hydraulic and integrated assembly prototypes for validation.
• Create detailed engineering drawings reports design reviews and other documentation to clearly explain convey design ideas test results and recommendations to internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with core teams customers and industry partners to ensure our CDU designs are delivered on time meeting and exceeding market needs.
• Review and approve designs drawings and other engineering documentation.
• Innovate and advance the state of the art for CDU component and system design building and maintaining Cool ITs competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with industry groups to define and influence emerging standards and best practices.
• Continuously look for ways to make our CDU designs better performing improve reliability reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Engineering Physics or a directly related discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years relevant engineering and/or design experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional engineering designation or eligibility to obtain it in California within 12 months.
• Experience in the datacenter high-performance computing or liquid cooling industries.
• Experience in customer-facing roles such as technical sales key account management consulting or other engineering roles with frequent interactions with customers.
• Experience in product design technical sales or engineering of thermal management and heat transfer solutions fluid dynamics datacenter or HVAC products.

Knowledge:

• Thermodynamics: fundamentals of heat transfer in liquid to liquid and liquid to air systems
• Fluid mechanics: proven understanding of hydraulic and gas fluid behaviours particularly as they relate to heat transfer in liquid-cooling systems. Able to build first-order fluid network models from component performance curves and generate predicted system-level pressure-flow curves.
• Datacenter design: knowledge of the basics of datacenter design relevant standards and best practices for facility design and/or operation.
• Process piping P&ID and building mechanical design particularly with respect to HVAC and fluid transfer.
• Understanding of pump motor heat exchanger and sensor selection testing and validation.
• Experience with rapid prototyping manufacturing techniques and testing of thermal/mechanical components or assemblies; familiarity with lab equipment for data collection (Preferred)
• Familiarity with NPI product design PLM and PDM processes and how they contribute to engineering change management (Preferred).

Skills:

• Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong analysis problem-solving and risk mitigation skills.
• Thermo-mechanical design calculations; heat transfer fluid mechanics piping design and HVAC.
• Proficiency in using CAD software (e.g. SolidWorks) for detailed mechanical designs & drawings.
• Proficiency with finite element computer simulations: CFD heat transfer stress/strain (Preferred) and seismic analysis (Preferred).
• Design for Lean Six Sigma or related statistical product design methodologies (Preferred).
• Technical product and design review: competitive benchmarking performance estimated cost Design for Manufacturability Design for Assembly and Design for Service.
• Engineering Change Management for NPI and Sustaining products.
• Strong sense of urgency and responsiveness driving projects to closure.
• Mentoring and guidance of junior team members.

Abilities:

• Excellent ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams customers and external partners.
• Ability to fully understand customer needs & requirements and decompose them into functional engineering requirements to guide product design.
• Technical leadership in the design and development of complex projects with cross-functional teams.
• Perform engineering design calculations and FEA simulation for fluid mechanical thermal and/or seismic analyses.
• Able to travel domestically and internationally to: Cool It HQ (Calgary Alberta) customer sites and industry conferences and trade shows.

This position will be located out of the San Francisco Bay area and may require frequent trips to key customer facilities in the area. The salary range for this role is $94400 to $141600 dependent on the experience and skills of the successful applicant.

Special Conditions of Employment

Up to 30% travel may be required both domestically (USA) and internationally.

Benefits

Ecolab provides the following benefits: medical dental vision life insurance accident insurance critical illness insurance hospital indemnity insurance auto insurance home insurance pet insurance identity theft protection short-term and long-term disability 401k pension plans retirement health care benefits short-term incentives vacation (12 days) holidays parental leave employee stock purchase plans(Full-Time Associates) discount on day care services and caregiver services adoption assistance group legal services employee assistance program employee discount program and education assistance programon-Site childcare and fitness facilities may be available at select Ecolab locations.Click herefor additional benefits information.If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website view our benefits at Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

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