| Job Description | This position is responsible for managing a team of Application Engineers, Competency Engineers, and Project Managers to design and manage project delivery for all platform products, customer specific designs, and for productivity improvements.
Responsibilities & Duties
Incorporate divisional strategic vision (relative to blend of ETO and platform offerings) into product planning and specific product designs
Guide and coach team through adoption and transitional phases of platform development including sales collaboration and market research, design practice, risk analysis (technical and commercial), testing and validation, performance trade-off studies, cost studies, supplier selections, engineering process development, manufacturing process development, catalog selection and pricing methods, and sales campaign support
Drive design and automation based productivity projects to improve operational excellence and reduce operations cost by minimum of $1M/year
Define and assure proper use of distinctly different engineering processes used to quote, engineer, and manufacture a product depending on the products position between fully customized and fully standardized platform offerings; with standard platforms not requiring any redundant work for quoting or design
Design manufacturing equipment to match the product design (both product and process portions of the Design for Manufacturing, DFM, method). Design and build small presses, work tables, material handling, and other assembly equipment. Setup material management supermarkets and kitting areas as appropriate. Assist with plant design and layout and project manage the implementation. Build a strong working relationship with the operations team to facilitate joint ownership of automation projects, knowledge ownership, and documentation. Specify equipment, write appropriation requests, install, and train as necessary.
Use formal risk reduction and documentation techniques such as Design/Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (DFMEA/PFMEA)
Management of engineering team in regards to projects, schedules, and workloads
Train team in the latest project management methods and use to deploy all projects, NPD team should be known for fastest, most efficient roll-outs of any new product or process
Document all product designs, manufacturing processes, and quality requirements utilizing the latest tools for CAD/CAM and Product Data Management (PLM/PDM)
Providing designs that meet industry requirements as well as internal requirements for cost effectiveness, accuracy, functionality, performance, and reliability
Develop and work with the engineering teams on their projects
Assisting quality, production, sales, and marketing in designing new and improved products
Assisting manufacturing in troubleshooting manufacturing related problems
Maintaining design requirements, bills of material, schematics, and all necessary documentation for sales and production of the product
Investigating equipment failures and to devise corrective actions, incorporate lessons learned into new designs, or build processes to prevent in the future
Continuous improvement, value engineering, product research and development
Work with the Engineering Team to determine cost, function, and design for platform based refrigeration equipment
Create equipment quotations including the descriptive technical specifications and pricing
Work with Product Engineering to determine and create equipment bills of material
Assist Product Engineering with the creation of accompanying submittal drawings
Acting as our customer’s internal advocate to help manage job issues, customer changes, and any other events that require information exchange between us, our suppliers, and our customers
Assisting Contractors and Engineering Consultants with using and designing in the company’s equipment
Creating piping schematics and other required mechanical drawings
Creating electrical schematics and other required control drawings
Validating equipment bills of materials
Correctly size, apply, and specify various refrigeration components.
Work with Materials, Suppliers, and Manufacturing on material requirement and substitutions
Value Engineering and Product Innovation
Provide technical assistance to Customers, Suppliers, Outside Sales, Manufacturing, Field Service, Purchasing, and Quality Control
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 8 to 15 years of Engineering experience
Master’s degree in business or technical field preferred
Strong leadership and team building skills coupled with excellent interpersonal and communication skills as this is a technical leadership position
Good problem solver with the ability to analyze data, formal problem solving certification(s) preferred (Shainin, DOE, Six Sigma, Robust, etc.)
Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Works well in group problem solving situations; Applies critical reasoning to making decisions
Proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
Industry knowledge in the following areas preferred:
Product management experience defining products based on performance trade-offs and marketing information
Manufacturing Engineering and Automation Techniques
Retail and Industrial refrigeration design
Controls architecture and design
CO2 refrigeration systems
Ammonia refrigeration systems
Solid Works and / or AutoCAD, PDM/PLM data control tools
Heat Transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Excellent project management skills and multi-tasking, PMI certification a plus
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to effectively communicate with all levels and functional areas
Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; understands the importance of details
Continuous improvement methods and certifications preferred, Six Sigma, Lean, Value Stream Mapping, Process Documentation, etc.
Basic understanding of manufacturing finance practices and ability to reduce cost based engineering improvements
Willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time as necessary for customer and supplier interactions
Nate Weaton
General Manager
Trey Crown
Vice President & General Manager
RiShawnda Henderson
Human Resources Generalist |
| | Company | | Hillphoenix | Job Code | | State or Province | | Georgia | | |
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