Daimler Truck North America

Cooling Systems Engineer I

Daimler Truck North America

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Portland • Oregon • United States

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Salary

💰 $71,000 - $91,000 per year

About the role

  • Concept, develop, and release best-in-class solutions for Western Star and Freightliner vehicles, with awareness to overall vehicle packaging.
  • Apply theoretical principles and engineering techniques to design systems that are reliable, serviceable, efficient, and competitive and use the latest technology available.
  • Support truck manufacturing plants, sales order processing, quality groups, and service engineering.
  • Promptly respond to shop calls and plant build issues.
  • Understand the ramifications of these issues and how their potential solutions roll out across multiple projects and products.
  • Select and implement suitable counter measures.
  • Interface and support other teams including product design, validation engineering, and compliance, manufacturing, sales and marketing.
  • Interact with multi-tier supplier base to ensure conformance of designs to specifications, internal and external customer expectations, engineering practices and government regulations.
  • Provide a broad emphasis on continuous improvement and challenge others to top performance.
  • Act as a consensus builder to various stakeholders to maintain directional support throughout the project life cycle.
  • Manage multiple assignments concurrently, and prioritize them in a manner consistent with business goals.
  • Successfully implement projects on time and within budget.
  • Proactively inform management of project issues, delays and risks.
  • Improve competitive market position by keeping abreast of state of the art developments in the trucking industry and applying the new knowledge to designs.
  • Generate and implement ideas to continuously improve work environment, systems, tools, processes as well as product cost and quality.

Requirements

  • BS in Mechanical Engineering or relevant
  • Demonstrated CAD expertise, including surface development (NX)
  • Proven follow-through and ability to work independently
  • Ability to work with other design areas to reconcile conflicting design solutions into robust and cost-effective solutions
  • Experience preparing and giving presentations
  • Understanding of engineering & upstream/downstream processes
  • Experience leading implementation of cross-functional improvement initiatives.
  • Demonstrated strategic foresight, ability to anticipate questions/next steps, and ability to motivate self and others
Benefits
  • annual bonus program
  • 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age
  • starting at 4 weeks paid vacation
  • 13+ calendar holidays
  • 8 weeks paid parental leave
  • employee assistance program
  • comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs
  • onsite fitness (at some locations)
  • tuition assistance
  • volunteer paid time off
  • short-term and long-term disability plans
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
Mechanical EngineeringCADsurface developmentengineering techniquesdesign systemsproject managementcontinuous improvementcost-effective solutionsquality engineeringmanufacturing processes
Soft Skills
independencepresentation skillsstrategic foresightmotivationconsensus buildingprioritizationproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadership
Certifications
BS in Mechanical Engineering