Performance Test Engineer - Manufacturing - Johnson Controls : Job Details

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What we offer

• Competitive salary and bonus plan

• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time - 15 days of vacation first year

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - Available day one

• Extensive product and on the job/cross training opportunities With outstanding resources

• Encouraging and collaborative team environment

• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

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What you will do:

You will Provide active, ongoing day-to-day testing support. This hands-on position will support Large Tonnage (water cooled) Centrifugal Chiller testing. The Test Engineer will “manage” a test throughout the process from test design and planning through execution to completion including analysis of data results and presentation of the data to external JCI customers. Ideally this individual will possess multiple backgrounds that include a working knowledge of centrifugal chillers and related test facility operation, and other applicable technologies so they can singularly manage the testing process for individual test. This position may provide test engineering support for standard and non-standard contract witness testing.

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How you will do it

• Understanding of refrigeration systems and concepts

• Interfaces with the customer for factory witness test.

• Plans and executes tests of water cooled centrifugal chillers.

• Communicate with the sales engineer to disseminate and agree upon test plans.

• Creates test request detail of what conditions to be run to meet customer's needs

• Uses in-house rating program to determine chiller rated performance

• Performs calculations to simulate the effects of fouling.

• Acquires and provides input and set up data acquisition software.

• Diagnoses and resolves issues with chiller if chiller will not operate or meet performance requirement

• Communicates results and resolution of issues with sales engineer and external customer o Provides a summary of testing results to product engineering for further analysis

• Presents to customers the design and set up of the lab function, methods and records for calibration of instrumentation, and an overview of AHRI and Eurovent testing procedures and tolerances

• Works with sales engineers and customers to resolve concerns or misunderstanding in regards to testing

• Participates in the revision of standard procedures, test Standards and processes.

• Uses experience to develop or recommend the development of new procedures, processes or resources geared to provide more efficient, accurate, or advanced testing services.

• Adheres to the Company's Code of Conduct and Business Ethics standards.

What we look for

• An Engineering degree or related field

• 3 years direct work experience in large tonnage water cooled chiller equipment development testing, including a good understanding of HVAC/R systems, concepts, and diagnostics, as applied to both test subjects and test facilities.

• A background in engineering and testing, with use of a variety of test instrumentation to perform test data acquisition and data analysis, test troubleshooting and diagnostics, technical reporting, and related communication at various levels is required.

Preferred

Certain related experience may be considered a plus. Specific areas, as applied to HVAC/R equipment:

• Electronics/software (esp. starters, variable frequency drives, control systems).

• Sound and/or vibration testing – instrumentation, acquisition/analysis software. (esp. MAARS; Bently Nevada; Bruel & Kjaer)

• General test data acquisition and sensors – hardware, software (esp. LabVIEW, National Instruments)

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