Senior Product Design Engineer

Adams Thermal Systems is hiring a Senior Product Design Engineer to build customer-driven product designs with strong technical ownership. This onsite role in Phoenix, AZ offers paid time off, comprehensive insurance coverage, and a retirement plan with employer match, along with the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally and support both engineering execution and customer-facing work.

The Senior Product Design Engineer will create and implement designs with minimal supervision, performing the structural and materials thinking required to balance robustness, cost, and risk. You will also lead Design FMEA efforts with teams across Logistics, Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Suppliers, and Tooling/Fixtures, while using IATF-16949 practices through the QPC process.

What you’ll do

• Create and implement customer-driven designs with minimal supervision.
• Specify materials and analyze structures to evaluate robustness, cost, and risk.
• Lead Design FMEA activities across cross-functional groups (Logistics, Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Suppliers, and Tooling/Fixtures).
• Apply the QPC process as outlined in IATF-16949.
• Serve as the technical contact in support of sales, maintaining and growing customer relationships.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed.
• Support manufacturing needs for prototyping or production launches.
• Direct designer/drafters providing project support.
• Perform other assigned tasks as defined by the department.

Technical skills you’ll use

• Use CAD (Creo) to design, analyze, and draft information for internal and external customers in accordance with ANSI Y14.5-2018.
• Apply GD & T skills and analyze tolerance stack-ups.
• Use Windchill/PDM Link for CAD file storage and change management.
• Apply DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturability/Design for Assembly) based on ATS manufacturing capability.
• Use sound analysis methods for heat transfer and structural phenomenon evaluation.
• Maintain detail- and results-oriented execution to meet schedules, with strong organizational and project/time management.

What you bring

• Self-starter capable of working independently.
• Three to five years of design experience in an OEM manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years experience with parametric-based CAD software.
• Experience in sheet metal design and weldments.
• Experience with heat exchanger products and processes (including brazing) is a plus.
• Minimum education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME).

Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• Group Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with employer match
• Life Insurance at 1x Salary
• Long Term Disability
• Short Term Disability
• Hospitalization Indemnity
• Critical Illness Coverage
• Term Life Insurance
• Identity Protection