Engineering Drawing Checker

About the role

Textron Systems Weapon Systems is seeking an experienced Engineering Drawing Checker to support a major US Air Force Program and emerging programs.

Responsibilities

• To ensure the quality of the Technical Product Documentation by ensuring that all drawings are produced in accordance with both published national/international standards, and company design standards in a timely fashion in line with program release schedule.
• Contribute to the identification of any identified technical shortcomings and recommend/propose solutions.
• Check and approve engineering drawings from the points of view of; technical completeness, clarity, conformance with standards, dimensional accuracy and the correct specification of materials and processes.
• Check and approve tolerance stack analyses for technical completeness and correctness.
• Assist Program Engineers with promoting and developing a generally higher level of engineering drawing, GD&T and tolerance stack analysis skills across the team through one-to-one mentoring and group training activities where required.
• Manage checking request log, quickly adjusting to changing priorities of multiple design teams.
• Ownership of program review checklists to track approved formatting and notifying design team of common findings.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a design/manufacturing/inspection environment which required the use and interpretation of engineering drawings.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to manage one’s own workload and time.
• Experience of: Engineering drawing authoring or checking within a mechanical design environment.
• Working within an environment of continuous and rapid technical change.
• A thorough technical understanding of mechanical engineering drawing principles, including (but not limited to): Fundamentals such as projection angles, line types, view types, dimensioning methods, title block and change block information. Different drawing types and their usages. Theory and application of GD&TA thorough technical understanding of relevant industry-standard Technical Product Documentation (TPD) standards. Working understanding of ASME Y14.5-2009 with a focus on understanding the fundamental differences that exist between Y14.5 & ISO GPS with the ability to spot subtle ASME vs ISO nuances in engineering drawings. Sound documentation capabilities and thus experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for example.
• Active security clearance preferred, ability to obtain a clearance required.