Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Johnson Controls is a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization. The Lead Design Specialist owns new product development, product improvement, and sustaining changes for a product line, while advising on complex design decisions, managing schedules, and coordinating design teams. The role also mentors junior team members, improves design processes, and supports engineering activities using CREO and mechanical design expertise.
Responsibilities
- Displays leadership experience as an individual contributor
- Perform design tasks with or without engineering data to allow generation for finished drawings by other drafters
- Assign and manage work within the product area to meet deadlines, while developing product design skills in team. Guide and mentor other drafter titles in the design of product
- Maintain contact and understanding with manufacturing engineers from each manufacturing facility to ensure the best design from a manufacturing standpoint
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee design/drafting activities related to general design assignments. Delegate tasks, as appropriate, to provide development opportunities for team members
- Report on project progress in both written and verbal form for engineering, engineering management, customers and suppliers
- Function as a technical member of an engineering project team, engineering change team or material review board
- Prepare company standards and procedures
- Provide recommendations on practices within design specialty to engineers. Create best practice documentation, implementing new procedures within design/drafting to streamline the process and decrease design to market time. Develop global standards with the design process and implement them with other design centers
- Perform studies to investigate and recommend new CAD and design hardware and software
- Assist engineers with task level engineering duties including but not limited to selection of chiller component, weight distributions, airflow calculations, heat transfer calculations and electromechanical systems
Skills
- * 4+ years of CREO modeling expertise
- * Large mechanical assembly design
- * Basic understanding of team leadership qualities/practices
- * US citizen and/or permanent resident of the US
- * Windchill PLM
- * Pro-Piping module
- * Chiller and/or HVAC/R industry experience
Benefits
- This is a remote position for US based candidates.
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