Director, R&D- Coil Products

As part of HVAC Cooling, SPX Cooling Technologies is a leader in high quality industrial HVAC equipment used to cool large facilities like hospitals, data centers, and power plants. With cooling towers, fans, and refrigeration units, companies rely on brands like Marley, Recold, and SGS to provide comfort and mission critical and industrial cooling solutions.

SPX is a diverse team of unique individuals who all make an impact. As Director, R&D, you will lead engineering activities related to the design, development, application, and continuous improvement of coil heat exchanger products used in HVAC, refrigeration, and industrial applications. This role provides technical and organizational leadership for product development, engineering design, resource planning, and manufacturing support while ensuring engineering work is completed safely, accurately, competitively, and in alignment with business priorities.

You will serve as a global technical expert for coil products and refrigeration systems, leading engineers and designers in the development of new products and technical solutions while ensuring compliance with applicable specifications, codes, manufacturing requirements, cost objectives, and customer expectations. The role works closely with Manufacturing, Sourcing, Product Management, Sales, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders to bring new products to market, resolve complex technical issues, and continually improve engineering productivity and effectiveness.

This role encourages innovation and continuously improves efficiency of technical support, monitors advances of technology and competition, and supports global and acquisition-related technical issues in areas of expertise.

While each day brings new opportunities at SPX, your core responsibilities will be:

• Engineering Leadership & Resource Management
• Develop and maintain a multi-year certification roadmap aligned with product strategies, market expansion goals, and customer requirements.
• Lead and develop engineers and designers supporting coil products, including performance management, mentoring, career planning, coaching, and technical development.
• Manage engineering forecasting, manpower planning, scheduling, and supplemental engineering resources to meet project schedules, business priorities, and budgets.
• Establish priorities and provide technical direction to ensure engineering work is accurate, timely, compliant with specifications and codes, and commercially competitive.
• Develop and communicate engineering performance metrics, operating plans, budgets, resource requirements, and progress against key business objectives.
• Product Development & Technical Leadership
• Partner with Manufacturing and Sourcing to ensure product designs can be manufactured cost-effectively and supplier activities support project requirements and schedules.
• Lead or support engineering projects by establishing project scope, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and plans for achieving technical and business objectives.
• Interface with internal and external customers regarding technical performance issues, engineering requirements, and product solutions.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Product Management, Sales, and other functions to resolve issues and support successful commercialization of new and existing products.
• Cross-Functional Project & Business Support
• Develop and maintain certification schedules, priorities, and tracking tools across applicable product lines.
• Coordinate certification activities with external agencies, testing organizations, and other third-party resources as required.
• Support development and management of certification budgets, including anticipated testing, renewal, and external resource costs.
• Identify upcoming certification needs associated with new products, product changes, customer requirements, or market expansion.
• Report and lead internal reviews of certification compliance status.
• Operational Excellence, Innovation, & Industry Leadership
• Develop and implement continuous improvement processes focused on quality, schedule compliance, productivity, cost effectiveness, and engineering efficiency.
• Monitor advancements in technology, competitive products, industry practices, and emerging engineering requirements to identify opportunities for product and process improvement.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, specifications, technical…