Cooling Systems Engineer I

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

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