What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Illustrator position at Detroit Defense?
Description
Veterans Encouraged to Apply: Detroit Defense proudly supports those who have served. We welcome applicants with military experience, including those transitioning to civilian careers. Your leadership, adaptability, and mission-focused mindset are valued here. Detroit Defense is a 3x recipient of the Hire Vets Gold Medallion Award.
Detroit Defense is seeking a Technical Illustrator who possesses knowledge of current graphic design software to produce graphic art and visual materials for websites, promotions, advertisements, marketing materials, and informative and instructional material through a variety of media outlets.
This Technical Illustrator must be able to generate and manipulate graphic images, animations, sound, text and video into consolidated and seamless multimedia programs. Remain abreast of technological advances in the field and can identify areas of use in the organization. Applicants must have obtained real world experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. May lead the work of others.
This Technical Illustrator will work with both U.S. Army and Contractor personnel including engineers, designers, and technicians and logisticians to perform maintenance task analysis and develop technical documentation to support fielding, operation and maintenance of platform integrated systems. The ideal candidate is proactive, eager to learn, and can view problems analytically and act on them effectively.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working as part of a team providing logistics support services in support of Technical Manual development
- Create and update illustrations using Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, SolidWorks, and Vis Pro
- Create and update illustrations from source markups
- Vector trace over photographs and raster art to create drawings
Requirements
- Must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an applicable field of study or minimum of 10 years of relevant U.S. Government and or military experience
- Interpret and convert information (e.g. engineering models, drawings, schematics, spreadsheets) into end-user military standard (MIL STD) documentation and reference materials such as Maintenance Allocation Charts (MAC), repair parts and special tools lists
- Excellent computer skills, proficient with Microsoft Office products, Adobe Pro, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Iso Draw and SolidWorks
- Familiar with Military Documentation Standards; MIL-STD-40051, MIL-STD-2361C, and MIL-HDBK-1222F
- Ability to obtain a Common Access Card, and a Government Security Clearance
Detroit Defense offers an impressive compensation and benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits
- Company Paid Life and AD&D
- Company Paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending & HSA Accounts
- Legal & ID Shield Services
- 401k with Company Match
- Paid holidays, vacation, and sick days
Why Detroit Defense:
At Detroit Defense, we deliver mission-critical solutions that enhance national security, protect the warfighter, and enable readiness through innovation, technical excellence, and end-to-end lifecycle support.
Remaining steadfast in our core values of Trustworthy, Mission Driven, Creative, and Agile we are a complex systems integrator for the U.S. Government, Detroit Defense provides solutions to meet the technical and programmatic challenges faced by our customers. Our proven success in multi-domain cross-platform system-of-systems integration results in fielded capability for warfighters. From R&D to production, fielding, and sustainment, Detroit Defense provides services and solutions to Empower Those That protect Us.
Detroit Defense is a proud recipient of the 2022, 2023 & 2024 Hire Vets Gold Medallion Award.
Detroit Defense is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity or gender expression), age, mental or physical disability, creed, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic trait or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.