Manager of HVAC Product Design & Development: CareerFix Employment Inc

Job Title: - Manager HVAC product Design and Development –

Date: November 2, 2009

Job Category: HVAC Product Engineering management

Job ID: 332

Salary range: $ $70 – 85K plus incentive

Company Info

Type of business:

Manufacturer of HVAC & filter systems

Product or service types that are similar to client: HVAC, filters, and other air movement products are similar.

Co Story or selling points:

AREA info: Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill make up the three historically primary cities of the Research Triangle metropolitan region. Raleigh enjoys a temperate subtropical climate, with generally moderate temperatures during spring and autumn Estimated population: 1,635,974

Relo policy: Co has relocation assistance.

Misc. Comments: Company has the backing of Big Corporate and is rebuilding everything, the product line, the test facility, the manufacturing facility, everything. Going to be a great place to hang your hat.

Will or will not sponsor Visas: Will not sponsor visas.

Job detail

Job duties/Summary:

You will manage a team of Engineers and CAD designers & support personnel who:

Answer technical questions for sales, manufacturing, customers etc.

70% of your team’s designs will be custom designs, many will be taking a standard type product and adding some customization to it to make a new product for specific customer needs.

30% of designs will be designing families of standard products that can be easily customized to meet customer needs.

50% of your department’s time will be doing R&D of new products, and a lot of dealing with the media selection and manufacturing techniques.

• You & your team will keep up on all latest news and trends in the industry
• You will personally do or manage testing of the new or customized products before they are put into production.
• Testing will also be under your leadership, testing will be to meet UL 900 standards. You must know that standard well.
• You department will be able generate graphs, reports and other marketing illustrations to define and demonstrate the system’s performance and operating capacity.

50% of your department’s time will be working with solving issues or making decisions for and with manufacturing relative to manufacturing methods and technical issues.

Your will be responsible for conceptually designing new HVAC or filter products, utilizing Solid Works CAD 3D modeling system. CAD designers will turn your designs into finished CAD drawings.

You will interface with Sales, Marketing, Quality, Manufacturing, CAD and of course customers.

Skills needed: Management skills, plus HVAC product design experience, especially air movement.

• Ability to understand customer needs and translate that need into a product design that will solve the problem.

• Ability to model your designs using CAD 3D system.

• MOST Important now is knowledge of air movement systems design.

• Sheet metal design needed

Education requirements: BS Technical degree required.

Knockouts: Lack of air movement understanding, and lack of management skills.

Selling point/s of job: This company is in a rebuilding mode, and they have the horsepower and finances to pull it off. They are now owned by a very well managed strong mother company that has a track record of creating and running winners. New department manager is excellent manager with great people skills, and is very supportive of his staff.

Bottom line this is a great place to be right now both professionally and personally.

For consideration on this job click on URL below:

Gary Richards

CareerFix Employment Inc

Sales and Technical Placements in North America

1027 Pandora Ave

Victoria, BC V8V 3P6 Canada

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