Senior Manufacturing Designer

About Us:

As seen on Spectrum TV and highlighted in the Columbus Dispatch, Connect Housing Blocks is revolutionizing affordable housing in Central Ohio. We're not just building homes—we're building communities. Our innovative modular construction techniques allow us to deliver high-quality, stackable apartments that are transforming neighborhoods across the region. With the ability to produce up to 1,500 housing units annually, we're making headlines and making a real difference in our community.

Overview:

The Senior Manufacturing Designer is responsible for optimizing production processes, improving efficiency, and ensuring the highest level of product quality. We are seeking a hands-on experienced design engineer to lead apartment development and industrialized product design projects for the manufacture of modular housing in a factory setting. The ideal candidate will bring knowledge in construction, architecture, or other trades combined with a solid understanding of prefabrication or manufacturing processes. They will be responsible for leading project teams in the completion of detail drawings and equipment programming for manufacturing production. Candidates with backgrounds in offsite construction, cabinet-making, or other custom designed architectural construction systems are particularly well-suited to this role. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads design projects for developments or products, setting schedule and managing project team to ensure timely design release for manufacturing.
• Collaborate with department manager to schedule and allocate resources for completion of projects within schedule.
• Reads and interprets architectural drawings into constructable designs for prefabrication and manufacturing while following applicable building code and company design standards.
• Performs 3D modeling and detailed drawing production in Inventor.
• Ensures maintenance of drawing and program releases in an established document library for use by the production floor.
• Reviews and checks design drawings and machine programs of others, ensuring a high standard of quality from the design team.
• Coaches and mentors’ junior members of design team.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and develop strategies to increase manufacturing efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance product quality through product design.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including process/manufacturing engineers and external architectural and engineering consultants, to ensure that products are manufacturable and meet production requirements.
• Promotes and implements lean manufacturing principles to eliminate waste, improve workflow, and optimize resource utilization.
• Identifies cost-saving opportunities and implement cost reduction initiatives.
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date manufacturing documentation.
• Promotes a culture of safety within the manufacturing team.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Associate’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, CAD Design, or Manufacturing required. Five years or more experience in designing products for construction fabrication or manufacturing. Experience operating and programming machinery desired.
• Ability to interact clearly and effectively, in both written and oral communication, with vendors, management, co-workers in English. Spanish proficiency preferred but not required.
• Proficiency in CAD/CAM software (Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit) and manufacturing software tools, preferred. Competency reading and interpreting architectural construction plans. Proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) preferred.
• Actively demonstrates excellent attention to detail on all engineering projects, documents, and reports. Identifies errors in units and processes. 
• The ability to communicate orally and written with clarity and good effect.  Knows their audience and can adjust to each setting to effectively relay the message. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization. 
• Ability to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Managing one’s own time and the time of others. Operates efficiently and minimizes distractions. 
• Collect and manage comprehensive data and use intuition and experience to complement data to effectively troubleshoot. 
• Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully. Is constantly and consistently one of the top performers. Very bottom-line oriented. Steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Work Environment:

This position operates in a manufacturing/production facility setting. Candidates should be comfortable working in various weather conditions and adhering to safety standards in high-pressure environments.

Apply Today:

If you're ready to make a difference in our production and help build the future of affordable housing, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to join Connect Housing Blocks as our CDL Driver—let’s build something great together!