Job Description

Onsite position located at Carrier-Syracuse, 6304 Carrier Parkway, East Syracuse, NY, 13057

Work Schedule Monday – Friday, days

The Senior Controls Engineer is a critical position, and the selected individual will play a key role in product development: supporting HVAC cooling and heat pump equipment development, developing software and mechanical controls requirements for new products, control box development, and secure product requirement compliance and agency certification.

The candidate will actively participate in the New Product Development process applying electrical and software expertise to optimize the release of next generation of HVAC equipment for building applications.

The Senior Controls Engineer works in a smaller local team of 3-5 engineers, and interaction with larger extended teams and supporting groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in controls and controls systems and the development of next generation high efficiency and environmentally friendly HVAC&R and electronic control systems.
• Conducts and coordinates moderately complex tests for control and diagnostic systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conducts multidisciplinary research in assisting equipment designers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software to develop software engineering activities.
• Analyzes system capabilities and determines end user needs to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements and input data acquisition to ensure current and future needs of the business are met.
• Engage with cross-functional and cross-regional teams to understand and translate product requirements into control system requirements.
• Communicate complex technical concepts across technical and non-technical organizations
• Prepare presentations for Qualification Review Boards including demonstrating the use of Quality System deployment tools.
• Provide reliability analysis of components and systems.
• Develop and coordinate engineering documents and release.
• Document process improvements as part of standard engineering work.
• Develop and coordinate customer documents (instructions and manuals).
• This position does not support employer sponsorship.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 or more years of experience in mechanical and/or software controls or a Master’s degree with 3 or more years of experience in mechanical and/or software controls.
• Willing and able to travel up to 1 to 2 times per year, international (Mexico), or domestically.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SAP and Creo.
• Familiarity with Heat Pumps.
• Knowledge of CSA/ANSI and UL Standards is a plus. AHRI, ASHRAE, DOE, EPA, NEC, UL/CSA, etc.
• Proficient with engineering design process and tools.
• Ability to interact with Marketing and customers to define software functional requirements.
• Ambitious self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced design environment.
• Ability for developing continuous improvement projects to influence and drive change.
• Project management and interpersonal skills and the ability to work within an engineering design team.
• Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams and a diverse cultural environment.
• Experience with mechanical and/or software controls for HVAC applications or similar applications; thermal management, building automation systems, etc.