Purpose of Role:

The role is part of the engineering team at Triangle Tube and covers all the product areas for hydronic heating, hot water, and HVAC that Triangle Tube is currently involved with or might be involved with moving forward including residential boilers, commercial boilers, indirect tank water heaters, pool heaters, plate heat exchangers, Heat pump water heaters, Heat pumps, direct fired water heaters, and other heating and cooling equipment. The Project Engineer will be responsible for directing and coordinating the activities involved in the development, evaluation and validation of product and component designs.  The engineers’ position will deal with current and future products under development for both the Triangle Tube and Ideal brands. The position will work as part of a team and involved with new product and continuing product support. The position will be directly responsible for sustaining engineering and support all the current product lines. 

Working within part of a wider team, the Project Engineer will be required to participate in all related engineering/technical activity in delivery of the project program and development of the competence center for technical information withing the company in north America.

The role is responsible for:

• Support engineering functions for a product or product family for the entire product lifecycle.
• Enter and modify product data in ERP system as well as initiate, review, and create ECRs and ECNs.
• ·Plan, conduct, and coordinate engineering assignments which typically include several smaller projects or one major project; participate in planning objectives.
• Prepare monthly progress reports detailing progress of projects for engineering leadership.
• Work closely with engineering and product management teams to ensure product developed meets ANSI/CSA/UL criteria and market requirements.
• Work cross-functionally with team members from purchasing, sales, manufacturing, accounting, and test laboratories (internal and external) to ensure successful completion of the project.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Conduct project meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the team
• Provide support to sales, training, and field service as the technical expert on a product
• Develop and apply engineering standards and procedures and create lab work orders to analyze or replicate field issues, work with laboratory technicians to run tests and evaluate the results.
• Complete assigned engineering projects in accordance with customer specifications and within schedule and budget limitations
• Work with Marketing and Sales as the technical expert and attend trade shows to support the sale of the products
• Create and manage CIP and PR reports
• Participate in industry groups
• Perform advanced engineering tasks under limited supervision
• Communicate with engineering functions, including design, process, production, quality, and reliability teams.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience in an area of gas appliances for heating or hot water
• Ability to work with a cross functional team in a multinational company
• Must be proficient in computer skills (i.e., Excel, Visio, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint).
• Team player with excellent communication and networking skills and the ability to influence and motivate
• Extremely high level of urgency to resolve problems
• Proven track record in prior role
• The ability to read and understand engineering documents and drawings
• The ability to multitask and work on several projects at once
• Understanding of heat transfer and other engineering principals

Competencies (Qualifications, Experience, Training, Other):

a.      Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, either mechanical or electrical required
• Master’s degree preferred

b.      Experience (years and nature)

• 6 or more years of project engineering, certification, product development experience required
• 2 or more years of hydronic, water heating, o HVAC engineering experience required
• Experience with ANSI/CSA boiler, water heater, or heat pump standards required
• Experience in evaluation products for certification and performance
• Experience in investigating, troubleshooting, documenting, and performing corrective actions in product designs. Strong intra/intercompany and external coordination skills
• Experience in working with outside vendors
• Experience in engineering/manufacturing change processes

c.       Previous Training

• Preferred advanced Excel training
• Hydronic training
• Heat loss calculations

d.      Other

·      Specific detailed experience of gas boilers or gas hot water heaters, furnaces, and other HVAC equipment desirable

·      Knowledge of test instrumentation and data acquisition

• Comfortable using:

                                                              i.     Electrical Meter

                                                             ii.      Combustion Gas Analyzer