Design Engineer I - HVAC

Rheem Manufacturing Company; Montgomery (AL); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Rheem North America in Montgomery, AL is seeking a Design Engineer I to design, maintain, or improve products and components, with a hybrid work arrangement (office Monday-Thursday, remote Friday). You will analyze sketches, develop layouts, coordinate changes, troubleshoot designs, and ensure compliance with standards.

Strong communication and analytical skills are essential, with occasional travel. This role offers opportunities to work across engineering disciplines within Rheem's North

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
• Ability to read and interpret safety, operating, and maintenance documents.
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills.
• Experience with appliance design and engineering change processes.
• Experience with governing certification standards.
• Proficient with MS Office; SolidWorks experience.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Analyze sketches and data to determine design factors such as size and tolerances.
• Sketch rough layouts and compute dimensions, angles, and clearances.
• Coordinate engineering changes prior to production release.
• Troubleshoot product design issues and implement improvements.
• Review designs for compliance with standards and customer specs.
• Develop certification submittals and coordinate testing with labs.
• Write reports summarizing findings for other departments.
• Investigate factors like inter-changeability and efficiency.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Reading and interpreting documents

Mathematics concepts

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

Job DescriptionThe

The Design Engineer I 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 Rheem North America, located in Montgomery, AL (Hybrid). This role follows our hybrid work arrangement, with team members working in the office Monday through Thursday and remotely on Fridays.

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
• 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 in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as MS Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a matrix team environment.

How To Stand Out

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 0-2 years of experience in design and manufacture of products
• 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, GT-SUITE, etc

As a Leader At Rheem, How You Achieve Results Is As Important As The Results You Achieve. While LEADING SELF, You Will Be Expected To Demonstrate The Following Competencies And Behaviors

• Adapting
• Business Understanding
• Collaborating
• Communicating Effectively
• Continuously Improving
• Customer-Orientation
• Developing Self
• Focusing on Results
• Influencing
• Managing Relationships
• Managing Work
• Problem Solving & Decision Making

Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.

About Us

At Rheem, we engineer products for life. For home life. For work life. For the life of the planet we all share. Backed by over 100 years of expertise, we’re passionate about product innovation and boldly committed to sustainability. Our full line of global air and water solutions deliver reliable performance, comfort and energy savings for residential and commercial applications worldwide. From engineers to accountants, sales professionals to support experts, Rheem