Lennox International

Senior Engineer - VAVE

Job Locations IN-Chennai
Requisition #
2024-44631
Category
Engineering
Shift / Hours
Regular

Company Profile

Lennox (NYSE: LII) is an industry leader in energy-efficient climate-control solutions founded over a century ago on the principles of integrity and innovation. Dedicated to sustainability and creating comfortable, healthier environments for our residential and commercial customers while reducing their carbon footprint, we lead the field in innovation with our cooling, heating, indoor air quality, and refrigeration systems.

Job Description

As a Senior Engineer in the VAVE team at Lennox India Technology Centre, you will be responsible for driving value addition and cost reduction initiatives across our product portfolio. This role involves managing multiple projects, from idea inception to realization, ensuring significant cost savings and product improvements. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product Management, and Manufacturing, to bring innovative concepts to life.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Value Addition & Cost Reduction: Identify, analyze, and implement cost reduction ideas, ensuring they deliver measurable benefits to the organization.
  • Project Management: Create and manage detailed project plans, ensuring seamless coordination of multiple projects simultaneously. Proactively identify ways to advance project activities.
  • Business Case Development: Analyze and evaluate ideas, preparing and presenting compelling business cases to Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams.
  • Design Development: Develop concept designs related to sheet metal and plastics using advanced design methodologies and techniques.
  • Design & Idea Analysis: Perform comprehensive analysis using NUDs, DFMEA, Risk Analysis, and RCA. Create and manage design verification and test plans.
  • Design Reviews & Approvals: Lead and coordinate design reviews, ensuring approvals from all relevant cross-functional teams.
  • Simulation & Testing: Oversee simulations and physical tests to validate ideas and design concepts, ensuring they meet required standards.
  • Supplier Collaboration: Work with suppliers through the sourcing team on sample development, prototyping, tooling, and timeline management.
  • Implementation Support: Coordinate the creation of Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) and collaborate with Manufacturing teams to implement ideas effectively.
  • Teardown & Benchmarking: Support VAVE team activities, including product teardown, benchmarking, and idea generation to drive innovation.

Qualifications

  • Strong project management capabilities.
  • Expertise in sheet metal and plastic design methodologies.
  • Proficiency in cost analysis and should costing for concept designs.
  • Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, setups, and routing.
  • Knowledge of Bill of Materials (BOM) and Engineering Change Notice (ECN) processes.
  • Proficient in DFMEA and functional analysis.
  • Experience with component testing and qualification methods.
Added Advantage
  • Proficiency in Creo or Solid Edge, and PLM tools (Windchill).
  • Knowledge of HVAC systems.
  • Expertise in VAVE practices.
  • Expertise in SAP
  • Visualization tools like Power BI

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