Cooling Systems Engineer I

Daimler Truck North America•Portland, OR

4d•$71,000 - $91,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Inside the Role Product Engineering is all about building extraordinary products that captivate our customers and deliver real value. We thrive on innovation, pursue exceptional quality, and bring ideas to life on time and within budget. Our passion for the product drives everything we do. We actively seek out customer feedback—celebrating the praise and embracing the tough critiques—because every insight helps us grow. We support one another, treat each other with respect, and create an environment where everyone can do their best work. We never stop learning. As a team of continuous improvers, we push ourselves to raise the bar, refine the details, and deliver products that exceed expectations. Our success is powered by creativity, craftsmanship, and a relentless commitment to our customers. We take pride in what we build—and we make sure to have fun along the way! This position is part of the Thermal Management Systems team within Powertrain Engineering, the group responsible for safeguarding the performance, durability, and reliability of our vehicles. Our team leads the design, validation, and integration of mission critical cooling systems for both internal combustion engines and advanced zero emission technologies such as battery electric and fuel cell vehicles. These systems are essential—not optional—for protecting high value components, ensuring optimal efficiency, and enabling vehicles to perform under the most demanding conditions. Powertrain Engineering is a fast moving, highly rewarding new product development organization focused on powertrain installation and the development of the peripheral systems that make modern propulsion possible. In this environment, thermal management is at the heart of keeping every powertrain running at its best. Posting Information We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected. We Take Care of Our Team Position offers a starting salary range of $71,000 - $91,000 USD Pay offered dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience. Benefits include 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 and volunteer paid time off; short-term and long-term disability plans. What You Drive at DTNA 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.

Nice To Haves

Knowledgeable in the areas of Engine cooling systems, Themo dynamics and or Fluid mechanics- strongly preferred
Experience with DTNA systems (SMARAGD, IMACS+, etc.).
Knowledge of vehicle assembly plant processes.
Demonstrated strategic foresight, ability to anticipate questions/next steps, and ability to motivate self and others.

Responsibilities

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.

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 and volunteer paid time off
short-term and long-term disability plans