Job Description

About This Role

Carrier Control Box Group designs, develops, and manufactures control and control panel solutions for the HVAC, refrigeration, and other OEM related markets globally. Carrier is seeking an Engineer to be based in Fort Wayne, IN. The available opportunity is a critical and comprehensive role within the Control Box Engineering group. Carrier is a fast-paced and growing business, and we are looking for a team player who will help us achieve and exceed product and business growth targets while simultaneously driving improved quality and customer satisfaction. The successful candidate will work as a member of an engineering design team that develops electrical control panels and enclosures from concept through production including analysis of component selections and layouts to ensure a robust and cost competitive panel design.

Key Responsibilities

Mechanical Design

• Interaction with team members both internal and external to create new control box designs and features according to their specifications
  • Management of your own workflow for assigned projects
  • Provide mechanical design, drafting, and analysis expertise in the areas of sheet metal, fasteners, and enclosures for electrical panels for use in the HVAC and adjacent industries
  • Creation and design of enclosures that meet varying levels of ingress protection
  • Layout of electrical and electro-mechanical devices within enclosures followed by layout and design of wiring harnesses to interconnect inside and outside the enclosure
  • Creation of manufacturing drawing/documentation packages in accordance with industrial drawing practices and standards
  • Utilization of PTC Creo to create models, assemblies, and perform mechanical analysis
  • Assembly and evaluation of physical mock-ups of control boxes and panels
  • Manage electronic Engineering Change Notice (ECN) generation and implementation through the Windchill product data management system

Production & Prototype Support

• Evaluation and approval of components with suppliers to meet requirements for function and performance
• Administer or participate in project design reviews
• Evaluation of mechanical failures in our products to determine root cause and corrective actions
• Support of sustaining products including quality improvements, cost reductions, component obsolescence, and failure analysis
• Travel to customer, supplier, and manufacturing sites to support concept generation and pre-production builds
  • Travel approximately 5%

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology, 3+ years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using PTC Creo or similar CAD modeling packages
• Familiarity with standard office productivity tolls (Microsoft Office, etc.)
• Familiarity with electromechanical devices (motors, breakers, relays, etc) and electromechanical enclosures and control panel development is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning systems is highly desirable
• Familiarity with national and international standards is also highly desirable
  • Examples include NEMA, IP, ANSI, UL1995, UL60335, UL508a, and NFPA 70
• Project management skills are considered very beneficial