Senior Application Engineer - Chillers

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Chiller Application Engineer

The Opportunity

LG Electronics is seeking a Chiller Application Engineer to support the selection, application, and technical sales of LG chillers and heat pumps across the U.S. market. This role serves as a technical expert for customers, consultants, representatives, and internal teams, ensuring equipment selections, system designs, and project applications align with customer requirements and LG product capabilities.

Working closely with Sales, Product Management, Factory Engineering, Building Automation, and Service teams, the Chiller Application Engineer will support project execution, product line activities, technical documentation, and customer-facing engineering support.

Why Join Our Team

Join a growing chiller business and play a key role in bringing innovative cooling and heating solutions to customers across North America. You'll work on complex HVAC projects, collaborate with global engineering teams, and help shape the future of LG's commercial chiller and heat pump offerings.

What You'll Do

• Provide application engineering support for LG chillers and heat pumps, including equipment selection, sizing, and performance analysis.
• Evaluate project requirements including loads, operating conditions, flow rates, pressure drop, sound requirements, electrical characteristics, and system configurations.
• Develop competitive equipment selections using approved LG software and engineering tools.
• Review chilled water, condenser water, heat pump, and hydronic system designs to ensure compatibility with LG equipment requirements.
• Support consulting engineers, contractors, owners, and sales teams with technical recommendations and application guidance.
• Interpret plans, specifications, codes, and project requirements to prepare submittals, technical responses, compliance matrices, and equipment schedules.
• Support building automation integration, including equipment controls, sequencing, BACnet/Modbus communications, and plant operation strategies.
• Collaborate with factory engineering, product management, and sales teams to address project-specific requirements and support product improvements.
• Capture customer feedback and market requirements to support product development and future product enhancements.
• Review and maintain technical documentation including engineering manuals, installation guides, application guides, catalogs, and product literature.
• Support product line activities including new product introductions, engineering changes, feature enhancements, and product lifecycle management.
• Develop and deliver technical training, presentations, webinars, and application guidance for customers, sales teams, representatives, and industry partners.
• Provide technical support during project handoff, installation, commissioning, and performance investigations.
• Analyze field issues and collaborate with service and factory engineering teams to identify root causes and drive resolution.
• Travel as needed to support customer meetings, jobsite reviews, training, and product-related activities.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of commercial HVAC experience in application engineering, consulting engineering, technical sales support, or chiller system engineering.
• Knowledge of refrigeration systems, heat transfer, hydronics, pumps, controls, and variable-speed HVAC equipment.
• Ability to interpret plans, specifications, piping diagrams, sequences of operation, and applicable HVAC codes and standards.
• Experience performing engineering calculations and applying technical concepts to commercial HVAC systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, equipment selection software, and engineering documentation tools.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel domestically and occasionally internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with air-cooled and water-cooled chillers, air-to-water heat pumps, centrifugal chillers, or inverter-driven compressor technologies.
• Experience with chiller plant design, sequencing, building automation systems, energy analysis, or life-cycle cost evaluations.
• Knowledge of ASHRAE, AHRI, and commercial HVAC industry standards.
• Experience supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities, healthcare, higher education, industrial, or large commercial projects.
• Experience working with manufacturer engineering teams, product development, technical training, or new product introductions.

Recruiting Range

$90,000—$110,000 USD

Benefits Offered Full-Time Employees:

• No-cost employee premiums for you and your eligible dependents for competitive medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits.
• Auto enrollment with immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with several investment options.
• Generous Paid Time Off program that includes company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time.  
• Performance based Short-Term Incentives (varies by role).
• Access to confidential mental health resources to help you and your loved ones improve your quality of life. Personal fitness goal incentives.
• Family orientated benefits such as paid parental leave and support for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral challenges, or developmental disabilities.
• Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance.

Benefits Offered Temporary/Contractors:  

• Eligible for the relevant benefit programs offered through our partner agencies.

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