Liaison Engineer

trane technologies • Greenville, SC

7d • $60,000 - $109,340 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Liaison Engineer plays a pivotal role within the Trailer Product Design Engineering team, serving as the key connection between design engineering and manufacturing operations. This position is responsible for ensuring seamless communication and execution across engineering and production interfaces, supporting the successful implementation of engineering changes, product enhancements, and new product introductions. The Liaison Engineer helps drive quality, reliability, value engineering, and sustaining engineering initiatives by ensuring design intent is effectively translated into manufacturing processes. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to identify risks, remove roadblocks, and align stakeholders in support of quality, cost, and delivery objectives. Success in this role requires a proactive, customer-focused engineer with a strong sense of urgency, excellent collaboration skills, and a commitment to engineering rigor and process discipline. The ideal candidate will be a trusted communicator and problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about improving products, processes, and cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and 4+ years experience in design or manufacturing engineering is required.
• Experience with manufacturing principles including Design for Manufacturing and Quality Management processes.
• Experience with Engineering problem solving, root cause analysis, and tradeoff analysis.

Nice To Haves

• Engineering experience with refrigeration systems or industrial products preferred.
• Creo proficiency preferred and Teamcenter is an advantage.
• Intermediate Spanish language proficiency is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead regular communication between design engineering and manufacturing materials team to ensure activity flow of engineering and manufacturing change to implementation.
• Track project implementation into production, record first unit serial number implementation.
• Ensure all new products and engineering changes are implemented in accordance with Thermo King engineering drawing and BOM requirements appropriate for the change/process intent.
• Provide feedback to engineering on strategic product Design for Manufacturing (DFM) improvements.
• Work with manufacturing materials to prioritize BOM error correction list, communicate necessary design/drawing/BOM changes to engineering.
• Support troubleshooting / diagnostic investigation of issues found within manufacturing test processes, end of line hot test, root causes for units in hospital stations. Provide feedback to engineering on systematic quality metrics from these processes.
• Review and disposition supplier deviation requests (SDRs), attach documentation of related engineering assessment and manufacturing assessment.
• Lead Engineering Assessment fit-up builds in the factory, create report to share with stakeholders.
• Participate in design reviews and DFMEA reviews providing manufacturing input, support handoff from Engineering to manufacturing to create PFMEA, control plan, work instructions, etc.
• Participate in Manufacturing Assessment builds for design change or new product design validation.
• Participate in Manufacturing Validation builds for Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) completion, work with Quality and Engineering to resolve any PPAP discrepancies.
• Participate in manufacturing Rapid Improvement Events (RIE) and Value Stream (VSA) events.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Holistic wellness programs
• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.
• Paid time off includes 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level