Daimler Truck North America is focused on building extraordinary products that deliver value to customers. They are seeking a Cooling Systems Engineer I to design, validate, and integrate cooling systems for vehicles, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. The role involves collaboration with various teams and managing multiple projects to enhance product quality and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Concept, develop, and release best-in-class solutions for Western Star and Freightliner vehicles, with awareness to overall vehicle packaging
- Apply theoretical principles and engineering techniques to design systems that are reliable, serviceable, efficient, and competitive and use the latest technology available
- Support truck manufacturing plants, sales order processing, quality groups, and service engineering
- Promptly respond to shop calls and plant build issues. Understand the ramifications of these issues and how their potential solutions roll out across multiple projects and products
- Select and implement suitable counter measures
- Interface and support other teams including product design, validation engineering, and compliance, manufacturing, sales and marketing
- Interact with multi-tier supplier base to ensure conformance of designs to specifications, internal and external customer expectations, engineering practices and government regulations
- Provide a broad emphasis on continuous improvement and challenge others to top performance
- Act as a consensus builder to various stakeholders to maintain directional support throughout the project life cycle
- Manage multiple assignments concurrently, and prioritize them in a manner consistent with business goals
- Successfully implement projects on time and within budget
- Proactively inform management of project issues, delays and risks
- Improve competitive market position by keeping abreast of state of the art developments in the trucking industry and applying the new knowledge to designs
- Generate and implement ideas to continuously improve work environment, systems, tools, processes as well as product cost and quality
Skills
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or relevant
- Demonstrated CAD expertise, including surface development (NX)
- Proven follow-through and ability to work independently
- Ability to work with other design areas to reconcile conflicting design solutions into robust and cost effective solutions
- Experience preparing and giving presentations
- Understanding of engineering & upstream/downstream processes
- Experience leading implementation of cross-functional improvement initiatives
- Demonstrated strategic foresight, ability to anticipate questions/next steps, and ability to motivate self and others
- Knowledgeable in the areas of Engine cooling systems, Thermodynamics and or Fluid mechanics- strongly preferred
- Experience with DTNA systems (SMARAGD, IMACS+, etc.)
- Knowledge of vehicle assembly plant processes
- Demonstrated strategic foresight, ability to anticipate questions/next steps, and ability to motivate self and others
Benefits
- Annual bonus program
- 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age
- Starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
- 13+ calendar holidays
- 8 weeks paid parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
- Onsite fitness (at some locations)
- Tuition assistance
- Volunteer paid time off
- Short-term and long-term disability plans
Company Overview
Daimler Truck North America, a Daimler Truck AG company, is the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America and a leading producer of medium-duty trucks and specialized commercial vehicles. It was founded in 1940, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://northamerica.daimlertruck.com.