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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 serve our Water Heating Division, located in Montgomery, AL. 

• 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.

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• 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.