Manager, Engineering

Whirlpool Corporation • Saint Joseph, MI • 3h ago

Requisition ID: 69812

About Whirlpool Corporation

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is a leading home appliance company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. As the only major U.S.-based manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, the company is driving meaningful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool , KitchenAid , JennAir, Maytag , Amana, Brastemp , Consul , and InSinkErator . In 2024, the company reported approximately $17 billion in annual sales - close to 90% of which were in the Americas - 44,000 employees, and 40 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com .

The team you will be a part of

This role will be accountable for architecture strategy across consumer centric category for strategic innovation and business growth. The role will include high levels of cross functional teaming with non- technical team members including, marketing, consumer design and legal teams. As such a candidate must have exceptional team building and communication capabilities.

This role in summary

At the manager level, this role will have the accountabilities of a Lead Engineer. As a Lead Engineer, the role is to own the CCT strategy and be accountable for the execution of the category project portfolio. The Lead engineer has individual accountabilities in Architecture strategy while also delivering results through others. In addition to owning the strategy, the Lead engineer is accountbale for build capabilities within the KASA Architecture community and OEM Partner

Your responsibilities will include

Responsible to drive technical activities in support of Category Planning

Create attribute tradeoff space clarity for all managed architectures

Define architecture and requirement guardrails and product variants rules

Gather and develop clear and measurable stakeholder needs and requirements

Identify and support documentation of product attribute leadership strategies

Responsible to develop new architecture(s) and associated system requirements based on stakeholder needs

Translate Stakeholder Needs including Voice of Consumer (VOC) to Voice of Engineer (VOE) requirements for system level attributes

Support V&V with robust verification and validation plans for all requirements

Support Marketing and Legal stakeholders with claims and messaging development and validation

Manage system integration of projects in Production Development and Advanced Development Projects

Ensure product and technology development activities are completed on time, meeting all requirements, including cost, quality & performance targets to support the project plans and project execution

Responsible for system level design/cost/quality/time trade-offs and technical decision making for issue resolution within the project/product plan guardrails

Lead technical design reviews for project to provide an assessment of whether the project is within the architecture/project/product plan guardrails

Responsible to drive full system validation through use of predictive and test to learn validation methodologies in concept, design and product validation stages

Drive simulation of virtual proto@types and build of physical proto@types per Verification & Validation (V&V) Plan

Document total expected variation to +/- 3 sigma distribution for each attribute

Ensure high contributing factors toward each function are designated as a Special Characteristic

Drive closure of design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (dFMEA) action plans

Supports marketing and consumer insights teams with consumer validation activities utilizing physical models and proto@types

Providing SME guidance and support where necessary

Minimum requirements

7-15 years Engineering & Technical experience.

High quality demonstrated experience and Knowledge in System Architecture, exceptional systems thinker.

Excellent developer of both technical

Proven Development and Execution Experience, Lean Product Development.

Proven System Integration capability.

Project Management and an outstanding influencer.

Min. Required: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Preferred: Mechanical Engineering , Mechatronic Engineering, Systems Engineering)

Connect with us and learn more about Whirlpool Corporation

See what it's like to work at Whirlpool by visiting Whirlpool Careers (http://www.whirlpoolcareers.com/) . Additional information about the company can be found on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/WhirlpoolCorp/) , Twitter (http://twitter.com/whirlpoolcorp) , LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/company/whirlpool-corporation/life/) , Instagram (http://www.instagram.com/whirlpoolcorp/) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/WhirlpoolCorporation) .

Whirlpool Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

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