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Design Engineer III

LB Foster
Loudon, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 11/18/2025 CLOSED ON 1/6/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Engineer III position at LB Foster?

 

1.         Responsible for designing precast concrete buildings and other precast products to meet customer specifications and provide complete drawing package to Operations for production.

2.         Provide technical support to outside sales team with specifications, drawing criteria and solution recommendations for customer quotes.

3.         Perform manual calculations required to design MEP systems.

4.         Create submittal packages, proposal drawings and production drawing sets.

5.         Produce BOM from manufacturing instructions and drawings.

6.         Provide quality review of prepared drawings for engineering team prior to submittal to sales and operations.

7.         Provide technical support to CAD Designer team and project managers for order submittal packages.

8.         Collaborate and assist with Quality Control Department in understanding specifications and performing first article validation, and cost reduction initiatives.

9.         Provide and implement continual improvement suggestions using software automation and streamlining of processes to reduce time, errors and costs when designing drawings and submittal packages.

10.     Facilitate and professionally represent the engineering team in meetings with production, quality, sales, and project managers, as well as corporate executive team.

11.     Responsible for department management in the absence of the Engineering Manager.

12.     Other duties as assigned.

 

 

·        Bachelors’ Degree in Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, or similar degree required

·        5 years’ experience in construction and industrial design

·        Successful completion of EIT exam

 

·           Advanced in the use of Autodesk products (Revit, Inventor 3D, AutoCAD 2D).

·           Project Management experience.

·           Professional level understanding of drafting standards & principles.

·           Advanced with Microsoft Excel (formulas, hyperlinks, sorting and searching data).

·           Must be capable of working with minimal supervision.

·           Advanced knowledge of mathematical concepts (calculate volumes, load calculations, metric equivalents, drawing scales) and ability to calculate by hand and other tools.

·           Must be detail oriented.

·           Ability to work safely in an industrial manufacturing environment.

·           Knowledge of precast concrete design.

·           Desire to continue to grow and develop.

·           Ability to travel to plant locations as required.

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