Systems Engineer

Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

The Systems Engineer plays a key role in designing a wide range of systems used within commercial cooking and heating equipment. The Systems Engineer will be responsible for creating complete engineering solutions which optimize the design for a given requirement.  The Systems Engineer will utilize knowledge of multiple engineering disciplines to ensure developed solutions are robust at a full system level.   The Systems Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that decisions are understood by the larger engineering organization. 

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service. This is a qualified retirement plan that is separate from your 401k and consists only of Henny Penny shares that will be paid out when you retire (or when you leave the company, but we hope you’ll stay!)
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
• Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week  
• Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
• Onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop part, assembly and system requirements.
• Work closely with key component vendors to create and/or review system architectures to enable sustained growth.
• Support development of new testing methods.
• Apply statistical test methods and analysis tools (DOE, COV, noise factors, etc.).
• Conduct Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis.
• Work with Agency Engineers to ensure systems are compliant with all applicable codes.
• Provide innovative solutions to processes and projects.
• Create and analyze functional systems w/ ability to summarize learnings clearly for the engineering organization.
• Create design standards for products, assemblies, and critical components and help ensure compliance with the design standards.
• Work with all levels of engineering and other business units.
• Train, mentor and coach junior level engineers in their professional development.
• Driver of systems development.  Assuring our designs meet a level of excellence and meet the needs of HP consistent with the product strategy, roadmap and industrialization strategy.
• Consistently models the Company Values and Expected Behaviors
• Other duties as assigned.

What We’re Looking For

• BS in an Engineering Field (Electrical, Software, Mechanical, Chemical)
• 10+ years of Engineering experience
• Excellent communication, organization, and time management skills
• Intermediate in Microsoft office and presentation skills
• Broad experience in the field of engineering including exposure to software, hardware, mechanical systems and manufacturing methods
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills-RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
• Ability to drive action with outside areas of the organization as well as with our key vendors.
• Ability to consider multiple options, evaluate the pro’s and con’s of each and determine the best designs to move forward.
• Ability to articulate and justify decisions that are made in a manner that produce understanding and acceptance.
• Knowledge of Agency standards
• Design for manufacturability experience
• Technical expertise in HP products
• Strong knowledge of cooking and heating principles (combustion, heat transfer, fluid flow, etc.) preferably as it applies to commercial cooking equipment.
• Provide guidance to R&D for commercialization of future technologies

About Us

We’re known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We’re a behind-the-scenes engine in the world’s most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy’s. We’re 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world’s most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.