Heating & Cooling System Engineer

Shaping tomorrow's technology

At Vehicle Technology, we are passionate about shaping tomorrow’s technology to create excellent sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions to make the world a better place for future generations. We provide innovative, safe and driver friendly solutions, we develop top quality services and we make our customer operations more efficient by using excellent data insights. We support the Volvo Group engineering community with cutting edge tools and methods.

Do you want to use your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Who are we?

Thermal Management is a department within Vehicle Technology responsible for developing, delivering, and maintaining an optimized cab climate and vehicle cooling & heating systems for all types of propulsion installations to all truck brands within the Volvo Group. We are responsible for leading the work with strategies and advanced engineering globally. We are located at Gothenburg & Bangalore and we have close cooperation with the sites in Greensboro and Lyon. We understand the final customer needs and apply our knowledge to develop technical concepts and solutions that satisfy customer and business needs. The work is based on innovation, shared technology, common architecture, and brand uniqueness

We are now looking for a Heating and Cooling System Responsible, with the primary focus on battery and fuel cells electric vehicles (BEV/FC).

As a Heating and Cooling System responsible for BEV and FCell, your responsibility will be to bridge between the component development and the strategic development of the complete thermal management system. You will create, develop and analyze System Concepts and define balanced system requirements in close collaboration with system architects, component owners, test and simulation engineers. As part of a thermal management team, you share with peers your progresses and target to maximize the collective output

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in the automotive industry with a thermal management system background and has been working with this for several years. You enjoy working in a team as well as individually and you feel engaged by working on projects and reaching goals. Since the job requires a net of contacts, internally and externally, your networking skill is valued, and you need to have the ability to work with a cross-functional network and in a multicultural environment.

You have a solid interest in technology and would love working with new solutions to make transports greener and more sustainable. You will collaborate with colleagues within the Volvo Group all around the world and have a great opportunity to influence our future products. This requires an open mind and an innovative approach. 

In order to be successful in this role, we believe that it is important that you recognize yourself in the following description:-

• 5-10 years of experience in heat transfer and cooling system.
• Good analytical and problem solving abilities / Fault tracing
• Thermal Simulation
• Experience in digital twin is a plus.
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written

Applicants shall have Masters degree in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering or similar.
In order to be successful in this position we think that you have an open and positive attitude and that you are self-driven. The job requires that you create an extensive network on a local and global basis. Your ability to understand and accept cultural differences is seen as an asset continuously.

In this role, you will report to the Denis Bonatto - Group manager BEV, FC Heating & Cooling System HW.

What’s in it for you?

As a Heating and Cooling System Responsible, your key responsibilities include :-

• Creating, developing and analyzing the system concepts.
• Performing the system optimization studies 
• Defining and securing that all the system requirements are met 
• Developing and anchoring the time plan level 3 for System development (Component development and verification and validation)
• Supporting functional development of thermal management actuators 
• Evaluating of System concept with 1D and 3D simulation results
• Plan concept and system testing in virtual and physical rigs and complete vehicles
• Performing S-FMEA and other proactive quality activities
• Synchronizing and cross functionally anchor sub system performance and concepts