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The position involves working closely with a key customer and a small advance team of driven and highly capable professionals to fully understand the customer’s needs, use case, and other product requirements, coming to a common understanding and agreement on project scope, requirements, and setting initial design direction. After initial agreement, the customer focused team Mechanical Engineer remains a core team member throughout the full CDU design and new product introduction (NPI) lifecycle.\nIn addition to maintaining a close relationship with the key customer, you will make major and ongoing contributions to the CDU mechanical design, collaborate with various internal and external teams and partners, and ensure the customer interested are kept front and center during the product design. This role requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, and excellent mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics skills.\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nDevelop and maintain excellent working relationships with the key customer.\nLead the early-stage NPI design of Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) as part of a customer-focused team during concept development, supporting a common understanding of product specifications, requirements, and design approach.\nTake a major role in initial product design using principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and mechanical engineering to deliver accurate performance models that support fast decision cycles for product architecture and direction.\nSupport rapid iteration of design concepts through technology assessment, feasibility analysis, and proofs of concept, oversee the building and testing of thermal, hydraulic, and integrated assembly prototypes for validation.\nCreate detailed engineering drawings, reports, design reviews, and other documentation to clearly explain convey design ideas, test results, and recommendations to internal teams and external stakeholders.\nWork closely with core teams, customers, and industry partners to ensure our CDU designs are delivered on time, meeting and exceeding market needs.\nReview and approve designs, drawings, and other engineering documentation.\nInnovate and advance the state of the art for CDU component and system design, building and maintaining Cool IT’s competitive advantage.\nCollaborate with industry groups to define and influence emerging standards and best practices.\nContinuously look for ways to make our CDU designs better performing, improve reliability, reduce costs, and increase efficiency.\nKnowledge, Skills & Abilities\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a directly related discipline.\nMinimum of 7 years relevant engineering and/or design experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nProfessional engineering designation or eligibility to obtain it in California within 12 months.\nExperience in the datacenter, high-performance computing, or liquid cooling industries.\nExperience in customer-facing roles such as technical sales, key account management, consulting, or other engineering roles with frequent interactions with customers.\nExperience in product design, technical sales, or engineering of thermal management and heat transfer solutions, fluid dynamics, datacenter, or HVAC products.\nKnowledge:\nThermodynamics: fundamentals of heat transfer in liquid to liquid and liquid to air systems\nFluid mechanics: proven understanding of hydraulic and gas fluid behaviours, particularly as they relate to heat transfer in liquid-cooling systems. Able to build first-order fluid network models from component performance curves and generate predicted system-level pressure-flow curves.\nDatacenter design: knowledge of the basics of datacenter design, relevant standards, and best practices for facility design and/or operation.\nProcess piping, P&ID and building mechanical design, particularly with respect to HVAC and fluid transfer.\nUnderstanding of pump, motor, heat exchanger, and sensor selection, testing, and validation.\nExperience with rapid prototyping manufacturing techniques and testing of thermal/mechanical components or assemblies; familiarity with lab equipment for data collection (Preferred)\nFamiliarity with NPI product design, PLM, and PDM processes and how they contribute to engineering change management (Preferred).\nSkills:\nExcellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.\nExcellent time management and organizational skills.\nStrong analysis, problem-solving, and risk mitigation skills.\nThermo-mechanical design calculations; heat transfer, fluid mechanics, piping design, and HVAC.\nProficiency in using CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks) for detailed mechanical designs & drawings.\nProficiency with finite element computer simulations: CFD, heat transfer, stress/strain (Preferred), and seismic analysis (Preferred).\nDesign for Lean Six Sigma or related statistical product design methodologies (Preferred).\nTechnical product and design review: competitive benchmarking, performance, estimated cost, Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, and Design for Service.\nEngineering Change Management for NPI and Sustaining products.\nStrong sense of urgency and responsiveness, driving projects to closure.\nMentoring and guidance of junior team members.\nAbilities:\nExcellent ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, customers, and external partners.\nAbility to fully understand customer needs & requirements and decompose them into functional engineering requirements to guide product design.\nTechnical leadership in the design and development of complex projects with cross-functional teams.\nPerform engineering design calculations and FEA simulation for fluid mechanical, thermal, and/or seismic analyses.\nAble to travel domestically and internationally to: Cool It HQ (Calgary, Alberta), customer sites, and industry conferences and trade shows.\nThis position will be located out of the San Francisco Bay area and may require frequent trips to key customer facilities in the area. The salary range for this role is $94,400 to $141,600 dependent on the experience and skills of the successful applicant.\nSpecial Conditions of Employment\nUp to 30% travel may be required, both domestically (USA) and internationally.\nAnnual or Hourly Compensation Range:\nneed to update Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.Benefits\nEcolab 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 program, on-Site childcare and fitness facilities may be available at select Ecolab locations. Click here for additional benefits information. If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here.\nPotential Customer Requirements Notice\nTo meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:\n- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.\nAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\nEcolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. 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