CAD Design Manager

About the role

The CAD Design Manager at Type One Energy leads a team of design professionals responsible for delivering high-quality, precise CAD models, drawings, and documentation that support the development of advanced fusion energy systems. This role plays a critical part in enabling engineering execution by ensuring design outputs meet rigorous technical, safety, and regulatory standards inherent to cutting-edge energy technology.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to plan and manage team capacity, including staffing levels, availability, and workload balancing.
• Ensure optimal allocation of design resources across projects.
• Proactively identify and address capacity gaps.
• Own end-to-end performance management processes for the CAD design team.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance reviews.
• Drive a high-performance culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement.
• Develop and execute career growth plans for team members.
• Identify skill gaps and create development opportunities through training, assignments, and mentorship.
• Support succession planning for key roles.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.
• Partner with technical experts to elevate team capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements.
• Drive efficiency, quality, and scalability in CAD design workflows.
• Promote continuous improvement methodologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Design, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of CAD design experience, including leadership or supervisory experience.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Expertise in CAD tools (Siemens NX highly desirable).
• Excellent resource planning and organizational abilities.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic oversight.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in advanced manufacturing methods, modern computational physics, and high-field superconducting magnets.
• Knowledge of proven techniques for developing optimized stellarator fusion energy systems.
• Understanding of the FusionDirect development program and its approach to achieving a fusion power plant over the coming decade.
• Experience in a partner-intensive and capital-efficient strategy for deploying clean energy technology.

Skills

• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Expertise in CAD tools (Siemens NX highly desirable).
• Excellent resource planning and organizational abilities.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic oversight.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

Benefits

• A hybrid work policy
• Stock options
• Relocation allowance
• Insurance plans
• Retail options
• And many more great voluntary benefits

Pay

Hightly Competitive Plus Benefits

Schedule

Permanent, full time

Benefits

• Stock options
• Relocation allowance
• Insurance plans
• Retail options
• And many more great voluntary benefits