Mechanical Designer — Power Transformers

About the role

Contract 6 months Remote (US) with periodic travel to Pine Bluff, Arkansas (1–2 openings). A transformer manufacturer is adding short-term mechanical design capacity to clear a drawing backlog. You will work remotely alongside their in-house mechanical design team, converting 3D models into release-ready manufacturing drawings and building models from existing drawings. This is hands-on design and drafting work on real production hardware — distribution transformer tanks, enclosures, core-coil frame assemblies and sheet metal fabrication. Not a review or coordination role. This is a W2 contract position with CTS International; the role is not subcontracted and third‑party agency submissions are not accepted.

Responsibilities

• Converting 3D models into complete, dimensioned manufacturing drawing packages
• Building accurate 3D models from existing 2D drawings
• Sheet metal and weldment design: tanks, enclosures, brackets, covers, mounting details
• Applying GD&T and tolerance stack-ups so drawings release cleanly to the shop floor
• Maintaining bills of materials alongside the model and drawing set
• Working to the client's existing design standards and drawing conventions

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing for power or distribution transformers, or closely comparable heavy electromechanical equipment
• Strong Solid Edge capability — or deep fluency in another parametric CAD package (SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo) and the ability to pick up Solid Edge quickly
• Real sheet metal and weldment design experience, flat patterns through to fabrication drawings
• A track record of drawings that went to a shop floor and got built without a string of RFIs
• Comfortable working remotely with a distributed team and holding your own schedule
• Able to travel to Pine Bluff, Arkansas for an initial onboarding visit and then roughly every six weeks