Thermal Mechanical Engineer Bay Area

• Generous paid time off flex days and paid company-wide shutdown during the holiday season.

• Comprehensive benefits plan with the majority of premiums funded by CoolIT.

• Company-funded 401(k) contributions to help support your long-term financial goals.

• Annual professional development allowance to support ongoing learning skill development and career growth.

• Design and develop thermal-mechanical products and components including passive cold plates coolant distribution manifolds and modular cooling system assemblies with a focus on performance reliability cost and manufacturability.

• Lead product development activities from concept through production including design studies prototype development design verification risk assessment and release to manufacturing.

• Create and maintain detailed CAD models engineering drawings bills of materials and related documentation in accordance with company standards GD&T practices and DFM requirements.

• Conduct thermal fluid flow structural analyses and perform laboratory testing data analysis and root cause investigations to validate designs and optimize product performance.

• Collaborate closely with customers and cross-functional teams including testing manufacturing quality supply chain and product management to understand requirements resolve technical challenges and ensure successful product integration throughout the design cycle.

• Serve as a technical representative at customer sites providing hands-on engineering support participating in design reviews gathering product and application feedback and helping drive efficient issue resolution from development through early production.

• Travel: Required travel to customer sites within the Bay area .

• Occasional travel to headquarter in Calgary AB Canada for training

• Minimal International travel may be required based on business needs.
• Candidate must reside in: Commutable distance of the Bay Area CA
• Work location: Remote when not at customers sites
• Work week and shift: Full-time standard business hours

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.

• Proven experience designing mechanical components and assemblies for mass production using multiple manufacturing processes.

• Strong understanding of core mechanical engineering principles including:

• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)

• Tolerance stack-up and statistical tolerance analysis

• Mechanism design and analysis

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

• Design for Manufacturing (DFM)

• Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

• Engineering testing validation and root cause analysis

• Proficient in CAD and simulation tools (e.g. SolidWorks) to create production-ready models and drawings perform analyses and optimize design performance.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with proven experience working directly with customers to gather requirements communicating technical concepts and resolving engineering challenges.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in thermal-mechanical product development.

• Strong understanding of fluid mechanics heat transfer and cooling system design.

• Experience designing products for high-volume manufacturing environments.

• Masters degree in mechanical engineering Thermal Mechanical Engineering specializing in Fluid Dynamics or a related field.

Benefits

Ecolab provides the following benefits: medical dental vision life insurance accident insurance critical illness insurance hospital indemnity insurance auto insurance home insurance pet insurance identity theft protection short-term and long-term disability 401k pension plans retirement health care benefits short-term incentives vacation (12 days) holidays parental leave employee stock purchase plans(Full-Time Associates) discount on day care services and caregiver services adoption assistance group legal services employee assistance program employee discount program and education assistance programon-Site childcare and fitness facilities may be available at select Ecolab locations.Click herefor additional benefits information.If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website view our benefits at Customer Requirements Notice

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