Product Design Engineer
About The Position
Silent-Aire is a premier owner equipment manufacturer dedicated to providing custom solutions for data center customers. Their product line includes large-scale equipment such as air handling units and modular data centers, with a focus on innovation, quality, and tailored solutions. The Senior Product Design Engineer will play a critical role in Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives within the OEM equipment manufacturing division. This role involves leading day-to-day design projects to improve product value, optimize performance, and reduce cost, while ensuring designs are robust, manufacturable, and production-ready. The successful candidate will collaborate with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and project teams to evaluate performance-critical components, develop and maintain standard design procedures (SOPs), and implement scalable design solutions that support manufacturing throughput and long-term product strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a Technical/Associate Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with equivalent experience
- Senior-level product design experience delivering complex equipment designs and design improvements in a production environment
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems and drive solutions across multiple stakeholders
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions impact cost, quality, and throughput
- Proficiency in PTC Creo 9, with working knowledge of Windchill PLM and SAP
- Ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and designers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present and defend technical recommendations
- Working knowledge of industry standards, codes, and practices relevant to air handling and OEM equipment
- Experience in equipment design within a manufacturing environment
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
Nice To Haves
- Experience improving or developing product architecture to support manufacturing scalability and consistent build packages
- Experience with formal peer review and structured engineering change control in a production environment
- Direct collaboration experience with manufacturing engineering, quality, suppliers, and cross-functional program teams
- Familiarity with standards and regulations related to data center equipment
Responsibilities
- Lead complex product design and development work—driving robust, manufacturable solutions
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and designers
- Coordinate across cross-functional teams
- Deliver high-quality designs for production while improving product architecture and design standards to support scalable manufacturing
- Utilize PTC Creo 9 to create and release accurate 3D models, drawings, and documentation packages in compliance with internal design standards and change control processes
- Perform engineering analyses, trade studies, and risk reviews to justify design decisions and ensure technical and functional requirements are met
- Partner with manufacturing engineering, quality, and operations to improve manufacturability, reduce variation, and support production ramp priorities through practical Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including internal teams and external suppliers as required
- Design and draft mechanical parts, sub-assemblies, general assemblies, plumbing layouts, and sheet-metal assemblies
- Collaborate with engineering and production teams to optimize product designs for cost, quality, and schedule
- Develop and implement engineering changes and resolve design issues that arise during the product lifecycle
- Conduct independent technical investigations and troubleshooting with engineering, manufacturing, and vendors
- Generate and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) for assigned projects
- Execute Engineering Change Requests (ECRs/ECOs) in accordance with established processes
- Perform periodic inspections on the production floor to ensure products are built to released specifications and design intent
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
