Design Engineer II

U.S. Water Heating; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Rheem North America is seeking a Design Engineer II in Montgomery, AL, to design and improve products and components. The role analyzes data, sketches layouts, coordinates changes, and ensures compliance with standards.

The position requires a mechanical engineering degree and 3 years of design/manufacture experience, with strong communication and analytical skills and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 3 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 mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Strong reasoning and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze sketches, specifications, and data to determine design factors like size, shape, and part arrangement.
• Sketch rough layouts and compute dimensions, tolerances, and hole locations.
• Plan and check engineering changes before production release.
• Investigate and troubleshoot design problems and document findings.
• Review design for compliance with engineering principles and standards.
• Develop agency certification submittals and coordinate testing.
• Create evaluation test plans and coordinate with lab engineers.
• Write detailed engineering reports and summarize findings for cross‑functional use.
• Investigate factors such as interchangeability, service requirements, and efficiency.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Mathematical reasoning

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Reading technical drawings

Design of Experiments

Prototyping

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

ANSYS/Fluent

MATLAB

LabVIEW

Pro/E (Creo)

MS Office Suite

Job description

The Design Engineer II 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 support Rheem North America, based in Montgomery, AL.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

• 3 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)

• Knowledge of engineering/manufacturing change processes.

• 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.

• Knowledge of concepts, techniques and tools that promote effective analysis, such as Design of Experiments and test engineering.

• Ability to carry out the development of information-gathering 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

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

• Experience in appliance design.

• 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.