Liaison Engineer

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** Where is the work:*
* Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

** What's in it for you:*
* Our Thermo King business develops transport HVAC and refrigeration products that provide temperature control solutions to help our customers efficiently deliver cargo with confidence.  Using our range of transport refrigeration solutions, our customers deliver essential cargo, like food and pharmaceuticals, all while maintaining the critical temperature control-chain.

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** Liaison Engineer
** plays a pivotal role within the Trailer Product Design Engineering team, serving as the key connection between design engineering and manufacturing operations. This position is responsible for ensuring seamless communication and execution across engineering and production interfaces, supporting the successful implementation of engineering changes, product enhancements, and new product introductions. The Liaison Engineer helps drive quality, reliability, value engineering, and sustaining engineering initiatives by ensuring design intent is effectively translated into manufacturing processes.

This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to identify risks, remove roadblocks, and align stakeholders in support of quality, cost, and delivery objectives. Success in this role requires a proactive, customer-focused engineer with a strong sense of urgency, excellent collaboration skills, and a commitment to engineering rigor and process discipline. The ideal candidate will be a trusted communicator and problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about improving products, processes, and cross-functional alignment.

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* What you will do:

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* + Lead regular communication between design engineering and manufacturing materials team to ensure activity flow of engineering and manufacturing change to implementation.  Track project implementation into production, record first unit serial number implementation.

+ Ensure all new products and engineering changes are implemented in accordance with Thermo King engineering drawing and BOM requirements appropriate for the change/process intent.

+ Provide feedback to engineering on strategic product Design for Manufacturing (DFM) improvements.

+ Work with manufacturing materials to prioritize BOM error correction list, communicate necessary design/drawing/BOM changes to engineering

+ Support troubleshooting / diagnostic investigation of issues found within manufacturing test processes, end of line hot test, root causes for units in hospital stations.  Provide feedback to engineering on systematic quality metrics from these processes.

+ Review and disposition supplier deviation requests (SDRs), attach documentation of related engineering assessment and manufacturing assessment.

+ Lead Engineering Assessment fit-up builds in the factory, create report to share with stakeholders.

+ Participate in design reviews and DFMEA reviews providing manufacturing input, support handoff from Engineering to manufacturing to create PFMEA, control plan, work instructions, etc.

+ Participate in Manufacturing Assessment builds for design change or new product design validation.

+ Participate in Manufacturing Validation builds for Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) completion, work with Quality and Engineering to resolve any PPAP discrepancies.

+ Participate in manufacturing Rapid…