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Learn about our benefits designed for you to Thrive at work and at home. 

We boldly go.

Where is the work:

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

 

 

What’s in it for you:

Our Thermo King business develops transport HVAC and refrigeration products that provide temperature control solutions to help our customers efficiently deliver cargo with confidence.  Using our range of transport refrigeration solutions, our customers deliver essential cargo, like food and pharmaceuticals, all while maintaining the critical temperature control-chain.

The Liaison Engineer plays a pivotal role within the Trailer Product Design Engineering team, serving as the key connection between design engineering and manufacturing operations. This position is responsible for ensuring seamless communication and execution across engineering and production interfaces, supporting the successful implementation of engineering changes, product enhancements, and new product introductions. The Liaison Engineer helps drive quality, reliability, value engineering, and sustaining engineering initiatives by ensuring design intent is effectively translated into manufacturing processes. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to identify risks, remove roadblocks, and align stakeholders in support of quality, cost, and delivery objectives. Success in this role requires a proactive, customer-focused engineer with a strong sense of urgency, excellent collaboration skills, and a commitment to engineering rigor and process discipline. The ideal candidate will be a trusted communicator and problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about improving products, processes, and cross-functional alignment.

What you will do:

Lead regular communication between design engineering and manufacturing materials team to ensure activity flow of engineering and manufacturing change to implementation.  Track project implementation into production, record first unit serial number implementation.Ensure all new products and engineering changes are implemented in accordance with Thermo King engineering drawing and BOM requirements appropriate for the change/process intent.Provide feedback to engineering on strategic product Design for Manufacturing (DFM) improvements.Work with manufacturing materials to prioritize BOM error correction list, communicate necessary design/drawing/BOM changes to engineeringSupport troubleshooting / diagnostic investigation of issues found within manufacturing test processes, end of line hot test, root causes for units in hospital stations.  Provide feedback to engineering on systematic quality metrics from these processes.Review and disposition supplier deviation requests (SDRs), attach documentation of related engineering assessment and manufacturing assessment.Lead Engineering Assessment fit-up builds in the factory, create report to share with stakeholders.Participate in design reviews and DFMEA reviews providing manufacturing input, support handoff from Engineering to manufacturing to create PFMEA, control plan, work instructions, etc.Participate in Manufacturing Assessment builds for design change or new product design validation.Participate in Manufacturing Validation builds for Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) completion, work with Quality and Engineering to resolve any PPAP discrepancies.Participate in manufacturing Rapid Improvement Events (RIE) and Value Stream (VSA) events.5-10% travel to Arecibo, PR and Greenville, SC.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and 4+ years experience in design or manufacturing engineering is required.

Key Competencies:

Experience with manufacturing principles including Design for Manufacturing and Quality Management processes.Engineering experience with refrigeration systems or industrial products preferred.Creo proficiency preferred and Teamcenter is an advantage.Experience with Engineering problem solving, root cause analysis, and tradeoff analysis.Intermediate Spanish language proficiency is a plus.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:

$60,000.00 - $109,340.00

Compensation Type:

Salary

Incentive Eligible:

No

Sales Commission Eligible:

No

Disclaimer: We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience,  travel requirements, and union designation.   Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country.  Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:

Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!

Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.

401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.

Paid time off includes 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.

Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Disclaimer:  Benefit offerings may vary depending on Collective Barraging Agreements and local/state regulations.

Safety Sensitive Role:

No

The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.