Senior Engineer, Engineering Excellence Lead

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

The Impact You'll Make

The Senior Engineer, Engineering Excellence Coordinator, leads moderately complex engineering process improvement initiatives across the Data Center Business Unit and Fluid Conveyance engineering organization. The role supports continuous improvement activities in standard works, project execution discipline, engineering dashboards, process mapping, problem solving, knowledge capture, and all CI activities that improve engineering productivity, quality, traceability, launch readiness, and cross-site collaboration.

This role coordinates engineering continuous improvement activities that make R&D, NPD, CPE, test lab, and product compliance work more effective, repeatable, and measurable.

The Senior Engineer, Engineering Excellence Coordinator has direct impact on engineering execution speed, process reliability, documentation quality, resource visibility, problem-solving discipline, lessons learned deployment, onboarding effectiveness, and consistent use of engineering standards across sites and regions.

The salary range for this role is 77K - 110K based on experience and industry knowledge.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, engineering management, continuous improvement, or a related technical field required; master’s degree or advanced technical/business education preferred.
• Relevant experience in engineering, product development, current product engineering, process improvement, Lean, project coordination, operations support, or continuous improvement roles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead moderately complex improvement projects, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, communicate requirements, and deliver measurable process improvements with limited supervision.
• Experience with Lean, Kaizen, structured problem solving, process mapping, dashboards, standard work, visual management, action tracking, and project execution routines preferred.
• Experience working with engineering documentation, test reports, design reviews, project governance, engineering change processes, or product lifecycle processes preferred.
• Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, managers, technical leaders, operations teams, quality teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.

What You’ll Get From Us

• We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
• You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
• We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
• You’ll receive benefits like 13th salary, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.