Job Description

We have an opportunity for an ambitious, self motivated person to join our forward thinking team as a SR. Refrigeration Design Engineer. In this role you will be the primary point of contact between Refrigeration and engineering; assisting both our standard production line and our custom manufacturing team, where needed. Your contribution will be pivotal in ensuring projects hit all timing and fiscal benchmarks. You will be expected to develop designs, propose solutions, and generate BOM’s, accurately and efficiently. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on some very interesting projects for industry leading clients. This will all be accomplished with the latest technology and the full support of engineering, manufacturing, and service.

Who we are

We are an innovative manufacturing company that focuses on growth and technology and enjoys having fun along the way. We have built an extensive and loyal customer base spanning aerospace, electronics and automotive markets in the global expansion of the battery industry. We work with many of the major tech companies as well as brands such as Tesla, Rivian, Lucid, Meta, Google, and Harley Davidson.

Primary responsibilities

• Perform calculations related to single stage and cascade refrigeration designs
• Appropriately size evaporators, condensers, line sizes, heat exchanges, condensing units, fan blades, and blower wheels
• Create refrigeration state diagrams to calculated desired pressure, temperature, mass flow, and component capacity for the dynamic conditions in environmental chambers,
• Load calculations including forced air convection over a customers product, to ensure systems can achieve customer requirements
• Perform calculation to adequately size open coil & finned sheath heaters
• Perform calculation to achieve set humidity points
• Hands on evaluation of refrigeration system performance in manufacturing test environment.
• Develop solutions aimed at increased efficiency and repeatability.
• Iterate on existing refrigeration designs
• Create all refrigeration schematics in Solidworks electrical, following all ANSI standards.
• Generate and execute engineering change orders.
• Generate a Bill of Material in conjunction with other disciplines
• Help create and maintain work and test validation procedures.
• Ensure compliance with all EPA and EU requirements.
• Troubleshoot existing designs and develop creative improvements for efficiency and surge capability, along with testing and manufacturing throughput.
• Lend support to service with field issues and installations
• Review and comment on supplier data as required.

Skills

• A firm understanding of thermodynamics, required. Including convection heat transfer, plate heat exchange heat transfer and refrigeration mass flow calculations.
• Practical refrigeration experience with an understanding of good plumbing practices including: oil migration, avoiding pressure drop, liquid migration in low temperature systems, and component mounting to ensure safe transit.
• Ability to identify, size, and troubleshoot all traditional refrigeration components.
• Ability to analyze pressure and temperature data of a refrigeration system for troubleshooting and system analysis.
• A four year degree in Mechanical/Refrigation Engineering, preferred.
• Five or more years of Refrigeration engineering experience, preferred.
• Five or more years of designing schematics for refrigeration circuits, preferred.
• Experience designing medium & low temp range systems (R410, R404, R449), preferred.
• Knowledge of 2D CAD software is required, SolidWorks Electrical software preferred.
• Knowledge of ultra low temperature cascade systems (R508), preferred.
• Knowledge of electrical wiring, preferred.
• Understanding of controls circuits & PLC’s, preferred
• Ability to troubleshoot, required.
• Great communication skills, required
• Good mechanical aptitude and knowledge, required.
• Great attention to detail, required
• Familiarity with current refrigeration engineering trends.
• An innovative mindset and positive attitude.

What do we offer:

• A truly collaborative environment with a Senior Management Team that helps to shape the future of the Company.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A casual dog friendly work environment with a small company atmosphere!

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