About the role
About Us: Silent-Aire is a premier owner equipment manufacturer dedicated to providing custom solutions for data center customers. Our product line includes large-scale equipment such as air handling units and modular data centers. We pride ourselves on innovation, quality, and delivering tailored solutions to meet our clients' unique needs.
Position Overview: We are seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer to play a critical role in Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives within our OEM equipment manufacturing division. This role is responsible for leading day‑to‑day design projects focused on improving product value, optimizing performance, and reducing cost—while ensuring designs are robust, manufacturable, and production‑ready.
The successful candidate will collaborate closely with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and project teams to evaluate performance‑critical components, develop and maintain standard design procedures (SOPs), and implement scalable design solutions that support manufacturing throughput and long‑term product strategy.
Key Responsibilities What you will do: As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you will lead complex product design and development work—driving robust, manufacturable solutions, providing technical guidance to junior engineers and designers, and coordinating across cross‑functional teams. This role focuses on delivering high‑quality designs for production while improving product architecture and design standards to support scalable manufacturing.
How You Will Do It
- Utilize PTC Creo 9 to create and release accurate 3D models, drawings, and documentation packages in compliance with internal design standards and change control processes.
- Perform engineering analyses, trade studies, and risk reviews to justify design decisions and ensure technical and functional requirements are met.
- Partner with manufacturing engineering, quality, and operations to improve manufacturability, reduce variation, and support production ramp priorities through practical Design for Manufacturing (DFM).
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including internal teams and external suppliers as required.
- Design and draft mechanical parts, sub‑assemblies, general assemblies, plumbing layouts, and sheet‑metal assemblies.
- Collaborate with engineering and production teams to optimize product designs for cost, quality, and schedule.
- Develop and implement engineering changes and resolve design issues that arise during the product lifecycle.
- Conduct independent technical investigations and troubleshooting with engineering, manufacturing, and vendors.
- Generate and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) for assigned projects.
- Execute Engineering Change Requests (ECRs/ECOs) in accordance with established processes.
- Perform periodic inspections on the production floor to ensure products are built to released specifications and design intent.
What We Are Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a Technical/Associate Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with equivalent experience.
- Senior‑level product design experience delivering complex equipment designs and design improvements in a production environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems and drive solutions across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions impact cost, quality, and throughput.
- Proficiency in PTC Creo 9, with working knowledge of Windchill PLM and SAP.
- Ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and designers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present and defend technical recommendations.
- Working knowledge of industry standards, codes, and practices relevant to air handling and OEM equipment.
- Experience in equipment design within a manufacturing environment.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience improving or developing product architecture to support manufacturing scalability and consistent build packages.
- Experience with formal peer review and structured engineering change control in a production environment.
- Direct collaboration experience with manufacturing engineering, quality, suppliers, and cross‑functional program teams.
- Familiarity with standards and regulations related to data center equipment.
Why Join Johnson Controls / Silent ‑Aire Join a team where your engineering expertise directly impacts product performance, manufacturability, and customer success. You will contribute to innovative designs that enhance building performance, reliability, and sustainability.
About Johnson Controls
At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
With a history of more than 135 years of innovation, Johnson Controls delivers the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through its comprehensive digital offering OpenBlue. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of building technology, software as well as service solutions with some of the most trusted names in the industry. For more information, visit www.johnsoncontrols.com.
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About the role
About Us: Silent-Aire is a premier owner equipment manufacturer dedicated to providing custom solutions for data center customers. Our product line includes large-scale equipment such as air handling units and modular data centers. We pride ourselves on innovation, quality, and delivering tailored solutions to meet our clients' unique needs.
Position Overview: We are seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer to play a critical role in Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives within our OEM equipment manufacturing division. This role is responsible for leading day‑to‑day design projects focused on improving product value, optimizing performance, and reducing cost—while ensuring designs are robust, manufacturable, and production‑ready.
The successful candidate will collaborate closely with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and project teams to evaluate performance‑critical components, develop and maintain standard design procedures (SOPs), and implement scalable design solutions that support manufacturing throughput and long‑term product strategy.
Key Responsibilities What you will do: As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you will lead complex product design and development work—driving robust, manufacturable solutions, providing technical guidance to junior engineers and designers, and coordinating across cross‑functional teams. This role focuses on delivering high‑quality designs for production while improving product architecture and design standards to support scalable manufacturing.
How You Will Do It
- Utilize PTC Creo 9 to create and release accurate 3D models, drawings, and documentation packages in compliance with internal design standards and change control processes.
- Perform engineering analyses, trade studies, and risk reviews to justify design decisions and ensure technical and functional requirements are met.
- Partner with manufacturing engineering, quality, and operations to improve manufacturability, reduce variation, and support production ramp priorities through practical Design for Manufacturing (DFM).
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including internal teams and external suppliers as required.
- Design and draft mechanical parts, sub‑assemblies, general assemblies, plumbing layouts, and sheet‑metal assemblies.
- Collaborate with engineering and production teams to optimize product designs for cost, quality, and schedule.
- Develop and implement engineering changes and resolve design issues that arise during the product lifecycle.
- Conduct independent technical investigations and troubleshooting with engineering, manufacturing, and vendors.
- Generate and maintain Bills of Materials (BOMs) for assigned projects.
- Execute Engineering Change Requests (ECRs/ECOs) in accordance with established processes.
- Perform periodic inspections on the production floor to ensure products are built to released specifications and design intent.
What We Are Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a Technical/Associate Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with equivalent experience.
- Senior‑level product design experience delivering complex equipment designs and design improvements in a production environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems and drive solutions across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and how design decisions impact cost, quality, and throughput.
- Proficiency in PTC Creo 9, with working knowledge of Windchill PLM and SAP.
- Ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and designers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present and defend technical recommendations.
- Working knowledge of industry standards, codes, and practices relevant to air handling and OEM equipment.
- Experience in equipment design within a manufacturing environment.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience improving or developing product architecture to support manufacturing scalability and consistent build packages.
- Experience with formal peer review and structured engineering change control in a production environment.
- Direct collaboration experience with manufacturing engineering, quality, suppliers, and cross‑functional program teams.
- Familiarity with standards and regulations related to data center equipment.
Why Join Johnson Controls / Silent ‑Aire Join a team where your engineering expertise directly impacts product performance, manufacturability, and customer success. You will contribute to innovative designs that enhance building performance, reliability, and sustainability.
About Johnson Controls
At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
With a history of more than 135 years of innovation, Johnson Controls delivers the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through its comprehensive digital offering OpenBlue. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of building technology, software as well as service solutions with some of the most trusted names in the industry. For more information, visit www.johnsoncontrols.com.