Design Engineer II

The Design Engineer II uses engineering techniques to design, maintain, or improve new or existing products and/or components for engineering projects within the area of assigned responsibility. This position will serve our Water Heating Division, located in Montgomery, AL.

Requirements

• 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.
• Plan, coordinate, and check engineering changes prior to supervisory signature release to production.
• Investigate and troubleshoot 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.
• Develop agency certification submittals and coordinate available testing with internal and external laboratories.
• Develop evaluation test plans and coordinate with engineering designers and lab test engineers on test set-up, data acquisition, interpretation of data and means for achieving desired test results.
• Write detailed engineering reports with analysis and summary of findings that will be shared with other departments and archived for historical reference.
• Investigate pertinent factors such as inter-changeability, service requirements, and efficiency and agency requirements.