Job Title: Controls Specialist
The Whalen Company has an opening for a Controls Specialist at its Easton, Maryland location. Established in 1962, The Whalen Company is one of America’s most innovative leaders in the commercial heating and air conditioning industry providing fan coils and water source heat pumps for applications worldwide including: hotels, motels, condominiums, apartments, senior living facilities, office buildings, schools, and dormitories. The Whalen Company provides solutions for new and replacement heating and air conditioning applications. Our flexibility and expertise allow us to meet the needs of our customers by providing designs that fit the building ... rather than forcing the building to fit the equipment.
The Controls Specialist will report to the Director of Product Engineering and will be responsible for developing controls on heating and air conditioning equipment, including water source heat pumps and fan coils, and for providing specification documents for production. In this role, the Controls Specialist will:
- Collaborate with Engineering to specify, test, and qualify electrical components and printed circuit boards for existing products and new designs.
- Collaborate with Engineering to provide controls solutions that meet customer requirements for building automation and energy management.
- Develop control box schematics and component layouts for new product development projects and for special custom orders on existing products.
- Provide wire specifications lists and connection diagrams to the factory for each production run.
- Create and maintain bills of materials, part specification documents, and assembly instructions for control box assemblies used in production.
The successful candidate must have:
- An Associate’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology with a concentration in electrical circuits design or equivalent work experience.
- Knowledge, skills, and experience or the ability to learn heating and air conditioning controls methodologies.
- Knowledge, skills, and experience or the ability to learn building power supply systems, both single and three phase, and building controls and automation systems.
The following qualifications are preferred, but not required:
- Knowledge and experience in heating and air conditioning or appliance products.
- Knowledge and experience in printed circuit board design and qualification.
- Skill and experience in CAD software.
If interested, submit an application and resume online at https://whalencompany.com/employment-form or to Katie Levitan, HR Administrator, The Whalen Company, P.O. Box 1390, Easton, MD 21601 or by email to
