Refrigeration Engineering Leader

Company: THR Partners
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 3, 2025

Job Description:

As Systems Leader- Refrigeration and Ice, you will be responsible for leading engineering teams developing systems level architecture, integration and execution related to multiple foodservice product lines. Working closely with Technical Product Managers, you will decompose high level requirements into systems level requirements and specifications, define and govern the key technical interfaces between systems and subsystems that enable a modular approach to product development and lead the engineering teams in the integration, verification, and validation of these systems. In this individual contributor role, you will ensure that products meet customer needs, comply with regulatory standards and Company internal standards, fulfill the needs of internal stakeholders and adhere to quality standards.This role is subject to our hybrid work model: we collaborate in the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The rest of the week, you have flexibility to work wherever it suits you best.What You'll Do

• Serve as the technical lead for a single large engineering project with multiple variants.
• Drive collaboration cross-functionally to conceptualize and develop new products or enhance existing ones, defining and managing systems level requirements, and defining/governing systems level interfaces in the areas of mechanical, electrical, functional/performance, and communications/data.
• Partner with Refrigeration Principal Engineer to define and govern the refrigeration systems architecture and technology roadmap while driving its implementation in product development.
• Manage requirements through the V-model approach from elicitation, through decomposition, to integration and ensuring the solutions provided by the engineering team fulfill all requirements at all levels in the verification and validation process with traceability.
• Mentor more junior engineers to drive best practices, ensure consistent processes, and help grow the function within the business.
• Lead project teams to scope, develop project timelines, budgets, and resource plans, and set project priorities to ensure that projects are delivered on time while meeting customer and quality requirements.
• Lead engineering teams to provide technical guidance, resolve technical challenges, and ensure product designs align with industry standards and regulations.
• Interface with reliability teams to ensure designs achieve reliability requirements in addition to customer or market requirements.
• Drive design process, testing, reviews, and regulatory changes for refrigeration sealed systems with a focus on flammable, low GWP refrigerants across all product lines as a functional lead.
• Develop detailed specifications for suppliers, drive Design For Manufacturing and Design For Assembly activities, and partner with supply chain on supplier selection, supplier qualifications, and supplier management.
• Manage Impact of Change process in collaboration with Program and Product Management throughout the product lifecycle.
• Lead engineering teams in effective risk analysis/management and mitigation plans.
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