Principal Engineer

Our Story :   Dover Food Retail (DFR) is a leading manufacturer of Display Cases, Specialty Products, Refrigeration Systems, Power Systems and Comprehensive Services; and l eading our industry by Innovating What’s Next in glass doors and intelligent merchandising technologies that keep food safe under brands such as Hillphoenix and Anthony .   DFR is part of the Climate & Sustainability Technologies segment of the Dover Corporation® (NYSE: DOV). Dover is a diversified global manufacturer with annual revenues in excess of $7 billion.   DFR is built on creativity and customer-centric innovation delivered by people invigorated by a strong sense of responsibility to help our customers win in their marketplaces. The relationships we build with our customers are as important to our success as the products we manufacture. This collaborative environment delivers FRESH THINKING, reassuring our customers that they choose the best when they choose to work with the people of Dover Food Retail.     Job Title:        Principal Engineer              Location:         Keosauqua, IA   What we are looking for:   The Principal Engineer will serve as a senior technical leader within Specialty Engineering, providing technical leadership, project execution discipline, and mentorship across complex product development initiatives. This position will lead strategically important engineering projects from definition through implementation while helping advance the organization's engineering methods, technical rigor, and problem-solving capabilities.   The Principal Engineer will establish and promote engineering practices that connect product requirements and design inputs to analytical methods, testing, objective data, and validated design outputs. This includes improving approaches to instrumentation, data acquisition, test methods, data analysis, design verification, and the development of engineering design rules that can be applied across product families.   This individual must demonstrate strong technical aptitude, engineering judgment, structured problem-solving capability, and the ability to use objective data and engineering fundamentals to solve complex technical problems. The Principal Engineer will also mentor and develop other engineers and provide technical leadership for major portfolio and product redesign initiatives required to address evolving customer, market, technology, and regulatory requirements.   What you will be responsible for in this role:

Lead major and strategically important engineering and product development initiatives from project definition through implementation. Establish project plans, technical workstreams, schedules, deliverables, risks, resource requirements, and decision points necessary for successful project execution. Provide technical leadership and direction to engineers working on complex product development and problem-solving activities. Mentor engineers in engineering judgment, structured problem solving, project execution, experimental methods, data analysis, and technical decision making. Establish and promote disciplined engineering methods that connect product and market requirements to engineering specifications, design decisions, verification methods, and validated product performance. Improve engineering rigor surrounding instrumentation, data acquisition, measurement methods, test planning, data integrity, and analysis. Develop approaches for translating test, analytical, simulation, and field data into actionable engineering conclusions and design decisions. Lead the development and documentation of engineering design rules, models, guidelines, and standard practices that can be applied across product families. Promote predictive and physics-based engineering methods that reduce dependence on iterative build-and-test development. Identify critical technical risks early in product development