Product Engineer

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• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care.
• On-the-job/cross-training opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

Johnson Controls is seeking a skilled and motivated Product Engineer to join the Water Cooled Centrifugal Chillers team at the San Antonio Facility. This is a continuous engineering (sustaining engineering) role focused on keeping an existing, high-volume product line performing at the highest level across quality, cost, and manufacturability. This person will serve as the critical bridge between the Global Engineering organization based in JADEC and the San Antonio factory, ensuring that global designs are successfully and efficiently incorporated into production.

• Serve as primary interface between Global Engineering (JADEC) and San Antonio factory.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and Production teams across factory sites on-site and remotely to resolve drawing conflicts, tolerance concerns, and producibility issues in existing product documentation.
• Participate in Change Control Board (CCB) reviews; author and process Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) with full factory impact analysis including effectivity date planning, BOM accuracy, and work instruction alignment.
• Work closely with Contract Engineering teams to ensure that customer-specific modifications to standard products are engineered within factory capability constraints.

• Own recurring and systemic quality issues on the water cooled centrifugal product line, driving root cause analysis through structured methodologies (8D, A3) and translating findings into permanent engineering corrective actions.
• Implement DFMEA updates, tolerance studies, and design-level countermeasures for in-production quality defects identified through factory audits, warranty data, or field feedback.
• Partner with the Quality Engineering team to disposition nonconforming material and determine engineering accept/reject criteria.
• Support PPAP activities for component or supplier changes that result from quality-driven engineering modifications.

• Identify DFM gaps in existing product designs that result in assembly difficulty, rework, scrap, or extended factory cycle time, and champion engineering changes to address them.
• Participate in DFM review events for product line changes, representing the factory's practical assembly perspective and ensuring new configurations can be built reliably at rate.
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering to validate that DFM improvements deliver measurable improvement on the production floor.

• Identify and lead cost reduction opportunities within the existing water cooled centrifugal product line, including material substitution, specification rationalization, component standardization, and BOM simplification.
• Develop engineering cases for value engineering changes, provide technical justification, risk assessment, and implementation plans to gain cross-functional approval.
• Track implemented cost improvement projects against savings targets; maintain project status visibility for leadership reporting.
• Engage with Supply Chain…