The Coca-Cola Freestyle Innovation Center is growing and looking for a Fluidics Engineer to continue our success in delivering the best dispensed beverage experience on the planet.

The candidate will join the Core Technologies team, which is responsible for the development of fluidics and control technologies for the Coca-Cola Freestyle beverage dispensers. We need engineers capable of working across boundaries to understand customer needs, to design and improve world-leading products, and to put them into production using our stage-gate process.

What You’ll Do

• Support the development of Coca-Cola Freestyle beverage dispenser fluidics systems through all aspects of the iterative design process including Alpha design/build/test cycles as well as Beta builds and field trials.

• Lead the design and development of technologies that enable an unprecedented variety of quality beverages to be dispensed in a cup. Technologies include pumps, valves, flow controls and flow meters, control algorithms, nozzles, cooling and carbonation systems, tubing and fittings.

• Work cross-functionally with electrical, firmware, software, and structural engineering teams to optimize the beverage dispenser design as a whole. Ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively across engineering disciplines is a must. 

• Improve performance and reliability of existing fluidics technologies. 

• Develop and release engineering documentation in a formal change management system using ECNs.

• Create and review detailed design documentation including CAD, drawings, supplier cutsheets, and component specifications. 

• Apply design tools including FMEA, DVP, DMAIC, DoE, etc. to plan the work, mitigate risk, and improve the quality and reliability of the beverage dispenser.

• Interact with suppliers, customers, and field service technicians to identify and efficiently resolve equipment performance issues remotely and on-site.  Strike an appropriate balance between short term countermeasures and long-term permanent solutions.

Key Functional Skills 

• Demonstrated history applying of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, machine design, and electromechanical integration skills to develop and commercialize a product.

• Hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting complex electromechanical devices. 

• Ability to understand and identify the best path to solution, whether it’s testing, computational modelling or analytical. Must have demonstrated proficiency in each of these areas.

• Generate a project plan, timeline, and resource estimates to develop technologies through engineering development, manufacturing, and commercialization.

• Adapt to evolving working environments and quickly adopt new tools to improve quality, productivity, and communications.

• Commitment to safety including wearing proper PPE, maintaining tidy labs, and proactively identifying opportunities to keep our workplace safe.

• Values a diverse workforce and proactively seeks out differing points of view in the search for solutions to challenging problems.

• Curious and empowered attitude committed to success, going beyond the job description to elevate the team’s achievement. 

• Maintain high professional ethical standards to meet both the rule and the intent of internal and external regulatory requirements.  Prioritizes customer and consumer safety and safe-guards the integrity of the Coca-Cola brand.

What You'll Need

• 3+ years’ of product development experience engineering fluidics or electromechanical systems.

• BSME/BSAE from an ABET-accredited engineering program

• Verifiable examples of successful product introduction

• Disciplined problem solving skills using DMAIC/8D/A3 or similar methodology

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years’ of product development experience

• MSME/MSAE

• Integration of electromechanical devices, including basic electronics, firmware and embedded controls.

• Development of real-time closed loop control systems and robotics

• Experience developing commercial grade products and appliances

• Experience with food-contact materials and NSF/EC regulatory requirements for food safety

• Manufacturing engineering experience

• Creo CAD, Windchill PLM

• LabView, MatLab, CFD – ANSYS experience

Skills:

Product Development; Electromechanical Engineering; Fluidics; Engineering Development

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