VAVE Engineer: HVAC Cost Reduction & Design Optimization

Your Talent Team; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Your Talent Team is seeking a results-driven VAVE Engineer to optimize costs across our HVAC portfolio. You will lead teardowns, benchmarking, and bottom-up cost modeling to identify opportunities that improve performance and reliability.

You will bridge engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing to deliver measurable bottom-line impact, applying DFM/DFS principles, validating changes, and guiding cost-out projects from concept to implementation. Mentorship for junior engineers is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering required.
• 2–5 years of professional engineering experience, including 1–2 years in product design or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience in HVAC or thermal systems preferred.
• Lean or Six Sigma Green Belt is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead teardowns and benchmarking to identify cost-reduction opportunities.
• Build bottom-up cost models including materials, direct labor, overhead, and logistics.
• Apply DFM/DFS to propose and evaluate design alternatives.
• Collaborate with sourcing and quality teams during supplier reviews and cost-reduction workshops.
• Support validation testing to verify that changes meet functional requirements.
• Manage small-scale cost-out projects from concept through implementation and present business cases.

Skills

HVAC fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Cost analysis

Lean or Six Sigma awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

3D CAD (SolidWorks / Inventor / Creo)

PLM systems (Windchill / Teamcenter / Vault)

ECNs & BOM management

Job description

Your Talent Team is seeking a results-driven VAVE Engineer to optimize costs across our HVAC portfolio. You will lead teardowns, benchmarking, and bottom-up cost modeling to identify opportunities that improve performance and reliability.

You will bridge engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing to deliver measurable bottom-line impact, applying DFM/DFS principles, validating changes, and guiding cost-out projects from concept to implementation. Mentorship for junior engineers is encouraged.