• Senior Analyst, Engineering

    Whirlpool Corporation (St. Joseph, MI)


    **Requisition ID:** 68409

    ABOUT WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

    Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is a leading kitchen and laundry appliance company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home and inspiring generations with our brands. 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 2023, the company reported approximately $19 billion in annual sales, 59,000 employees, and 55 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 responsible for system integration and architecture design for strategic innovation and business growth in the KASA's Espresso category

     

    This role in summary

     

    Owns the architecture design - the conceptual system architecture model, requirements, and traceability to key decisions and trade-offs between requirements and architecture design - design to production, as well as innovation and advanced development activities to support the Global Product Plan. 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.

    Your responsibilities will include

    + Responsible to drive technical activities in support of Category Planning:- Support identification of innovation and business opportunities- Translate knowledge gaps identified in planning into a recommended portfolio of Advanced Development- Projects to de-risk Production Development Projects- 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- Lead competitive set testing and target setting activities- 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 prototypes and build of physical prototypes 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

    + Responsible to provide Technical Leadership to Category- Lead the capture and reuse of architecture knowledge- Supports marketing and consumer insights teams with consumer validation activities utilizing physical models and prototypes- Providing SME guidance and support where necessary- Build exceptional technical talent and capability, in particular embed and foster a system mindset

    Minimum requirements

    + Experience in product engineering

    + Experience with systems engineering, Design Verification Plan (DVP) /requirements management, trade off assessment and stakeholder interaction

    + Product launch experience

    + Systems thinker

    + Ability to work cross-functionally and influence other

    + Fluent English

    + Min. Required: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

    + Preferred: Mechanical Engineering , Mechatronic Engineering, Systems Engineering

     

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    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.