Mechanical CAD Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Support design and documentation requirements for Propulsion, Thermal Spray, and El Form products and processes.
• Convert engineering concepts, sketches, specifications, and legacy drawings into complete CAD models and productionready drawings.
• Prepare assembly drawings, detail drawings, bills of materials, layouts, and supporting technical documentation.
• Apply appropriate geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in accordance with ASME Y14.5 and company drafting standards.
• Establish dimensions, tolerances, materials, finishes, coatings, and manufacturing notes in coordination with engineering and manufacturing personnel.
• Perform tolerance reviews and basic tolerance stackup analyses.
• Incorporate designformanufacturing and designforassembly principles into drawings and models.
• Revise drawings and models through the company’s engineering change and configurationcontrol processes.
• Maintain drawing accuracy, revision history, file organization, and traceability within the applicable documentcontrol or product lifecycle management system.
• Review designs for completeness, manufacturability, fit, function, and compliance with established requirements.
• Resolve drawing and design questions in collaboration with engineers, machinists, inspectors, technicians, and production personnel.
• Support manufacturing and quality teams during fabrication, assembly, inspection, troubleshooting, and correctiveaction activities.
• Absorb and improve drafting standards, CAD templates, drawing practices, and design workflows.
• Participate in design reviews and clearly communicate drawing status, design concerns, and recommended changes.
• Protect controlled technical information and comply with company exportcontrol, security, quality, and confidentiality requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Associate degree, technical certificate, or equivalent education and experience in mechanical design, drafting, manufacturing technology, or a related field.
• About 37 years of professional mechanical CAD design or drafting experience.
• Proficiency with a professional 3D mechanical CAD platform such as SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Creo, CATIA, or Siemens NX.
• Demonstrated ability to create productionready mechanical drawings for machined, fabricated, formed, or assembled components.
• Working knowledge of GD&T and ASME Y14.5 drawing practices.
• Understanding of mechanical design fundamentals, including fits, clearances, tolerances, fasteners, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Ability to interpret engineering specifications, customer requirements, sketches, legacy drawings, and technical data.
• Experience working with bills of materials, drawing revisions, engineering change orders, and documentcontrol practices.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet project deadlines with limited supervision.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational ability, and technical problemsolving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate in a handson engineering and manufacturing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and ASME drafting standards.
• Ability to navigate and interpret engineering drawings, schematics and interface requirements.
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with engineers, program managers and customers.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Experience with SolidWorks PDM.
• Experience designing components or tooling associated with propulsion systems, thermal spray operations, or El Form processes.
• Experience with AWS weld symbol terminology.
• Experience performing tolerance stackups and supporting design reviews.