Associate Mechanical Engineer

About this role

Carrier's North America Residential HVAC Engineering organization is seeking an Associate Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, to support the Sustaining Engineering team for Residential Gas Furnace products. This position provides a unique opportunity to work alongside product development engineers, manufacturing personnel, laboratory technicians, and quality professionals in a co-located engineering, laboratory, and manufacturing environment supporting gas furnace products sold across North America.

The Associate Engineer will contribute to product maintenance, engineering changes, product testing, quality improvement, manufacturing support, and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the product lifecycle. This role offers broad exposure to product design, laboratory validation, factory operations, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced engineering environment while developing technical expertise in HVAC products, product lifecycle engineering, and engineering fundamentals.

Key Responsibilities

• Support sustaining engineering activities for Residential Gas Furnace products throughout the product lifecycle.
• Support product and process improvements focused on quality, reliability, manufacturability, safety, and cost.
• Assist with engineering change requests, engineering change notices, specification updates, bill of material maintenance, and drawing revisions.
• Execute laboratory and product validation testing for systems, subsystems, and components using established test procedures.
• Analyze and document test results relative to product requirements, specifications, and test objectives.
• Support investigations of field, factory, supplier, and customer issues and assist manufacturing teams in resolving product and process-related challenges.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, Supply Chain, Service, and Product Development teams to support product improvements and issue resolution.
• Create and maintain engineering documentation including reports, specifications, test plans, and technical presentations.
• Participate in root cause analysis and continuous improvement projects focused on quality, reliability, manufacturability, safety, and cost.
• Assist in evaluating alternate components, materials, and design solutions through testing and engineering analysis.
• Communicate technical findings, project status, opportunities, and risks to engineering and cross-functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Engineering technology.
• OR
• Associates degree in Engineering or Engineering technology with 4 years of engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated initiative, curiosity, and desire to learn in a collaborative engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to collect, analyze, and communicate technical data through academic, internship, project, or work experience.
• Mechanical Engineering experience
• Internship, co-op, laboratory, manufacturing, or product development experience.
• Exposure to HVAC systems, combustion systems, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow, controls, or electromechanical products.
• Familiarity with engineering drawings, engineering documentation, and bill of material management practices.
• Exposure to root cause analysis, Lean, or continuous improvement methodologies.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $53,000.00 - $106,000.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.

Other Compensation

This position may be entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

Employees are eligible for benefits, including

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
• Retirement Benefits
• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here Work with us | Carrier Corporate. The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.