Design Engineer III Mechanical Design​/Product Development

The Design Engineer III (New Product Design) works in the Gas Systems Water Heating Design team to design, maintain, or improve new or existing products and components for engineering projects.

Office location:
Montgomery, AL (onsite). Relocation assistance is available.

• 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.
• Plans, coordinates, and checks engineering changes prior to supervisory signature release to production.
• Investigates and troubleshoots 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.
• Develops agency certification submittals and coordinates testing with internal and external laboratories.
• Develops evaluation test plans and coordinates with engineering designers and lab test engineers on test set‑up, data acquisition, interpretation of data and means for achieving desired test results.
• Writes detailed engineering reports with analysis and summary of findings that will be shared with other departments and archived for historical reference.
• Investigates pertinent factors such as interchangeability, service requirements, and efficiency and agency requirements.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 5 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 mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Strong reasoning and analytical skills (ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations).
• Experience in appliance design preferred.
• Experience in engineering/manufacturing change processes.
• Experience in working with governing certification standards and agencies preferred.
• Experience in manufacturing processes engineering and engineering computer systems including Solid Works modeling software.
• 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 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.

Rheem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Rheem encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including those of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The job description above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.

For U.S. based jobs, please note that Rheem is unable to hire candidates to be employed in the following states:
Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, or Vermont.