Senior Analyst, Engineering - Product Delivery

About the role

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is a leading home appliance company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. As the only major U.S.-based manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, the company drives meaningful innovation through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, JennAir, Maytag, Amana, Brastemp, Consul, and InSinkErator. In 2024 it reported approximately $17 billion in annual sales (≈90% in the Americas), employs 44,000 people, and operates 40 manufacturing and technology research centers. The team you will join focuses on seamless execution of cost, quality and/or conversion improvement projects for North American final laundry products, delivering product leadership through sustainment of business needs. The EPI (Existing Product Improvement) System Integrator leads high‑visibility, strategic TVC (Total Variable Cost) initiatives from conceptualization through early‑stage planning and production activation, owns G0/G1 gating, develops business cases, aligns capital and tooling, integrates complex design changes, bridges design and manufacturing to resolve production hurdles and optimizes long‑term system costs.

Responsibilities

• Support idea generation in workshops to develop cost pipeline
• Work with SME (Subject Matter Experts) to scope ideas in order to understand project feasibility (technical/financial)
• Analyze SIR (Service Incident Rate) information to generate insights on field trends and open Quality projects
• Analyze BOM (bill of material) information to generate cost ideas
• Execute cost and quality projects following the WPD methodology
• Write BOM change notices in Windchill
• Create Engineering changes to literature
• Create FMEA (Failure Modes, and Effect Analysis)
• Create Test Plan using DVP&R (Design Validation Plan & Report)
• Create work plans (schedules) to complete projects and introduce changes into production
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders as part of project execution (suppliers, procurement, subsystems, manufacturing, marketing, quality)
• Lead early‑stage feasibility assessments (technical/financial) for