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At Trane Technologies® we Challenge Possible. Our brands - including Trane® and Thermo King® - create access to cooling and comfort in buildings and homes, transport and protect food and perishables, connect customers to elevated performance with less environmental impact, dramatically reduce energy demands and carbon emissions, and innovate with a better world in mind. We boldly challenge what's possible for a sustainable world.
Our Thermo King business is connecting our transport HVAC and refrigeration products and providing digital solutions to help our customers efficiently protect drivers, passengers, and cargo. Using our connected solutions, our customers reduce fuel consumption, carbon emissions, and downtime while increasing the comfort and safety of passengers and shelf life of cargo, including essential cargo like food and pharmaceuticals.We are hiring a Bus HVAC Application Engineer in our Minneapolis, MN office! The Bus HVAC Application Engineer focuses on providing technical solutions for Thermo King products in the North America Bus HVAC product portfolio. The Application Engineer works directly with our customers to ensure the best possible, highest quality, and most reliable HVAC system is provided for their application. Collaborating as part of a cross functional team, this role provides a diverse set of experiences which will generate a solid engineering foundation in Thermo Dynamics, HVAC system design, customer relations, test methods, and communication. This is a great opportunity for an early career professional to gain knowledge and experience in a changing industry and make a difference while doing so. Core Job Responsibilities (others may be added):- Serve as the technical point of contact and facilitate communication between the Thermo King design team and customers on new and existing products.
- Lead Bus Application test process which includes defining and managing the test plan, scheduling testing, supporting testing on-site, troubleshooting, analyzing test data, writing formal reports and communicating results to bus OEM teams.
- Work with internal and external Product Management, Commercial, and Engineering teams to develop proposals based on bus procuring authority specifications and market requirements.
- Work directly with bus OEM engineering teams to define and coordinate Custom Order Design (COD) projects based on development efforts and/or new procuring authority requirements.
- Develop new COD system, unit, and kit configurations based on unique customer requirements.
- Conduct HVAC system application reviews and provide feedback to OEMs
- Participate in design reviews, design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) and design validation plan and report (DVP&R) activities.
- Provide support to manufacturing during new product launches and on an as needed basis for quality, reliability and productivity improvements.
- Provide technical support to the bus OEM to ensure the bus HVAC system is properly applied and installed per Thermo King guidelines.
- Work with the Service Team, Bus OEM and Transit Authorities to identify and resolve field issues as needed.
- Provide support to meet assigned quality and reliability targets.
- Travel 5-15% in North America to customer sites and facilities.
- Bachelor's Degree in the field of Engineering.
- 0-3 years of experience
- Experience using CAD software, preferably Pro/Engineer in a Windchill environment
- Experience or knowledge of the North American bus and coach market is beneficial.
- Strong customer focus with a demonstrated ability to develop relationships and interface with customers on critical technical matters.
- Highly organized with a strong attention to detail.
- Technical aptitude to quickly and efficiently gather, understand, condense and organize information necessary to make informed engineering decisions.
- Ability to communicate clearly using both written and verbal methods.
- Possess a self-motivated desire to learn and have the ability to share and apply new knowledge effectively.
- Strong analytical abilities and technical knowledge of HVAC systems and controls.
- Initiative and independence with a demonstrated ability to succeed in a cross functional team environment.
- Knowledge of vehicle environmental and safety requirements.
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