Job Title: CAD Designer

Job Location: Coraopolis, PA

Job Type : Contract

Job Description

Responsibilities and Essential Duties:

• Liaison between CUSTOMER engineering and sub-contract design drafters

• Provide administrative supervision of sub-contract design drafting staff.

• Administration of Customer policies and procedures for sub-contract drafting staff.

• Establish and manage performance required to satisfy project fabrication, construction milestones, deliverables, and lead corrective actions where necessary.

• Develop, prepare, present, and participate in required design reviews, reports, procedures, and other communications in support of technical and administrative assignments.

• Provide innovative conceptual engineering design and development proposals by preparing or directing initial layouts and checking form, fit, and function.

• Collaborate and participate in the definition of functional requirements.

• Evaluate alternative design concepts consistent with schedule, cost, and material limitations.

• Ensure the quality of the drawings produced.

• Maintain close working relationships with Customer leaders and managers to ensure timely, cost-effective execution of design/drafting services.

Qualifications:

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (desirable) or other technical degree with high drafting content with 10 years’ experience

• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in drafting

• Ability to read and interpret Structural steel, Piping and Ductwork drawings.

• Good communication skills

• Thorough knowledge of AutoCAD, Inventor and Navis Works is desirable.

• Project Engineering/Management experience desirable

• Fabrication/Construction experience desirable

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.

• Must be capable of developing fabrication drawings with an understanding of efficiency and financial impact.

• Must be capable of verifying the work of others.

• Has a working knowledge of manufacturing processes, machines, and various building materials.

• Follows direction and is capable of learning and applying Customer drafting standards.

• Having knowledge of drafting fundamentals including orthographic views, standard dimensioning practices, scaling plus English and metric units of measure.

Computer Skills:

• Minimum 5 years AutoCAD and INVENTOR experience.

• Must be proficient in all Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel and Outlook)