Design Engineer II

TheThe **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 **Rheem North America** located in **Montgomery, AL**. **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 **Rheem North America** located in **Montgomery, AL**. ### Responsibilities - 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engineering reports with analysis and summary of findings that will be shared with other departments and archived for historical reference.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. ### Qualifications - 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 pr…