Engineering Excellence Lead: Process Improvement

Danfoss; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 77,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th salary

Annual bonus

Paid vacation

Pension plans

Personal insurance

Job summary

Danfoss seeks a Senior Engineer, Engineering Excellence Coordinator, to lead moderately complex process-improvement initiatives across the Data Center Business Unit and Fluid Conveyance engineering teams in the United States. This role focuses on CI activities that boost productivity, quality, traceability and launch readiness.

The position coordinates activities across R&D, NPD, CPE, test labs and product compliance to drive measurable improvements and standardization across sites and regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, engineering management, continuous improvement, or related field.
• Master’s degree or advanced technical/business education preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned engineering process improvement initiatives across R&D, NPD, CPE, test lab, product compliance, and engineering support functions.
• Map current engineering workflows, identify gaps, define improved future-state processes, and coordinate implementation of standard work across sites.
• Develop and maintain engineering dashboards, process indicators, action trackers, visual management routines, and performance review materials for the engineering organization.
• Support project execution discipline by improving templates, checklists, stage-gate practices, design review preparation, risk reviews, decision logs, lessons learned processes.
• Facilitate structured problem solving, Kaizen activities, process reviews, standard work workshops, and cross-functional improvement events.
• Coordinate engineering knowledge capture, best practice sharing, onboarding material, training content, and deployment of common methods across global teams.
• Improve documentation control, traceability, data quality, test report consistency, engineering change readiness, and technical evidence management.
• Partner with engineering managers and technical leaders to identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, recurring issues, process variation, and improvement priorities.
• Support alignment between engineering processes and Danfoss Business System or Lean practices, including daily management, 5S, standard work, visual management, and sustainment.
• Coordinate implementation of digital tools, reporting routines, file structures, knowledge repositories, and collaboration practices that improve engineering efficiency.

Skills

Lean

Kaizen

Process mapping

Dashboards

Visual management

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/industrial engineering or related field

Master’s degree or advanced education preferred

Tools

Engineering dashboards

Job description

Danfoss seeks a Senior Engineer, Engineering Excellence Coordinator, to lead moderately complex process-improvement initiatives across the Data Center Business Unit and Fluid Conveyance engineering teams in the United States. This role focuses on CI activities that boost productivity, quality, traceability and launch readiness.

The position coordinates activities across R&D, NPD, CPE, test labs and product compliance to drive measurable improvements and standardization across sites and regions.