Refrigeration Design Engineer

The Refrigeration Design Engineer will develop refrigeration systems and components for temperature control units for electrical enclosures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop HVAC designs from proposal through design, fabrication and testing.
• Support design, testing and troubleshooting through strong working knowledge of HVAC systems.
• Contribute to research and development through broad understanding of current state-of-the-art HVAC advances and emerging technologies.
• Assist in specification of components, sheet metal layout to optimize airflow, and fabrication techniques.
• Perform capacity testing of completed prototypes in our onsite test chamber and provide results to marketing.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience designing and engineering air conditioners and/or refrigeration systems.
• Ability to work "hands on" with good interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to develop HVAC system functional design concepts.
• Ability to determine cooling and heating loads from written specifications.
• Ability to determine required component specifications (fans, coils, compressors, electrical control systems) to achieve a desired performance requirement.
• Good documentation and organization skills.
• Experience with CFD software strongly desired.

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a light manufacturing environment. The noise level in the work environment is occasionally high for short durations of time with noise from impact tools and forklift. Work is performed in an enclosed shop environment with adequate air circulation.