Design Drafter

Company: Spectrum Aquatics

Job Location: Missoula, MT

Work Setting: In-Person

Summary

Responsibilities will include gathering drawings and specifications, calculating material and equipment requirements and setting up production methods. If you have hands-on experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software

Who We Are?

We help build communities through play and recreation and we do it in the most fun environment: water! Spectrum manufactures equipment for swimming pools, and we’ve been doing this here in Montana for over 45 years now. We wouldn’t have been around for this long if we didn’t have awesome people working for us and a fun company culture, but we think you should check it out for yourself!

Duties and Responsibilities will Include:

• Use Solidworks to create concept models, design and detail drawings from those models.
• Design and drafting of custom and standard products utilizing the companies defined drafting standards.
• Limited interaction with customers regarding custom product orders to ensure product accuracy.
• Liaise with architects and engineers to gather product and structural requirements and designs
• Calculate dimensions, weight limitations and requirements in materials
• Describe production methods step-by-step (including equipment and software types to be used)
• Create detailed designs with computer-aided design (CAD) software
• Design diagrams, maps and layouts to illustrate workflow
• Prepare and review rough sketches and review them along with the engineering team
• Identify potential operational issues and redesign products to improve functionality
• Ensure final designs comply with regulations and quality standards
• Create manuals that describe existing products’ operation, features and maintenance
• Creation and maintenance of build books for standard catalog items.
• Review of drawings and design created by peers to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Generation and review of Bills of Material for completeness and accuracy.
• Support sales staff regarding product specifications and design.
• Assist engineering with the design and development of new products and the improvement of existing products.
• Other duties may be assigned by the Supervisor or Manager

Perks & Benefits

• Casual work environment (including attire!) with a fun company culture.
• Regular Monday – Friday hours.
• Regular employee events during work like BBQs, popcorn in the afternoons (yes, we have a popcorn machine), pizza days, birthday celebrations, and more!
• Management has an open-door policy.
• We embrace constant improvement and strive to always find a better, faster way to do things.
• Awesome health benefits (and we help you pay for most of them) –
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance (employee paid)
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability (employee paid)
  • Life insurance
  • Flexible spending accounting (employee paid)
  • Dependent care spending account (employee paid)
  • 401k match of up to 4% with immediate vesting.
  • Employee discounts on Verizon and Sprint cell phone plans.

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