Lead Design Specialist (remote)

What you will do

Johnson Controls is hiring a Lead Design Specialist. In this role, you will be responsible for all new product development, product improvement, and sustaining changes to a given product line.As the "owner" of the product line, you will help advise on complex design and engineering decisions, maintain schedules to complete large scale projects on time, and help delegate work to the supporting design team. You will partner with the Product Design Managers to ensure that initiatives are completed accurately, to the highest standard, and in a time effective manner. You will also mentor and guide junior designers, as well as implement process improvements for the team.As an expert level CREO user, you'll provide guidance on time, value, and accuracy improvement measures to implement as best practices. This is a fully remote position for candidates based in the US.

How you will do it

• Displays leadership experience as an individual contributor

• Perform design tasks with or without engineering data to allow generation for finished drawings by other drafters.

• Assign and manage work within the product area to meet deadlines, while developing product design skills in team. Guide and mentor other drafter titles in the design of product.

• Maintain contact and understanding with manufacturing engineers from each manufacturing facility to ensure the best design from a manufacturing standpoint.

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee design/drafting activities related to general design assignments. Delegate tasks, as appropriate, to provide development opportunities for team members.

• Report on project progress in both written and verbal form for engineering, engineering management, customers and suppliers.

• Function as a technical member of an engineering project team, engineering change team or material review board.

• Prepare company standards and procedures.

• Provide recommendations on practices within design specialty to engineers. Create best practice documentation, implementing new procedures within design/drafting to streamline the process and decrease design to market time. Develop global standards with the design process and implement them with other design centers.

• Perform studies to investigate and recommend new CAD and design hardware and software.

• Assist engineers with task level engineering duties including but not limited to selection of chiller component, weight distributions, airflow calculations, heat transfer calculations and electromechanical systems.

What we look for
Required

• Expert level CREO modeling expertise

• Technical/Associate Degree with 10 years' experience in a related field

• Basic understanding of team leadership qualities/practices

HIRING HOURLY RANGE: $67,000 - $95,000 (Hourly rate to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge,skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, location and alignment with market data.) This positionincludes a competitive benefits package. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson ControlsCareers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us