What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Engineering Specialist position at Saint-Gobain North America?
Why do we need you?
As a Design Engineer within our Commercial Building & Infrastructure (CBI) team, you will play a critical role in shaping the innovative products and engineered solutions that strengthen our commercial building portfolio. We need you because your technical expertise, creativity, and problem-solving mindset directly influence the quality, performance, and success of every project we deliver.
In this role, you will:
·Drive Innovation: You will transform engineering and architectural principles into practical, high performing solutions for CBI products. Your ability to generate innovative 2D and 3D concepts --supported by strong CAD proficiency --ensures we remain at the forefront of commercial building design
·Bridge Technical Disciplines: You will collaborate closely with engineers, architects, project managers, and cross-functional partners across CBI, serving as a key connector to ensure design intent, manufacturability, and performance align seamlessly.
·Bring Designs to Life: From detailed drawings to specifications, material estimates, and model integration, you will convert ideas into actionable plans that guide project execution and production. Your work ensures accuracy, efficiency, and engineering excellence at every stage.
·Enhance Product Quality & Functionality: Through thoughtful design work --including pattern development, modeling, blueprint interpretation, and adherence to industry standards --you will help deliver products that are functional, aesthetically compelling, and engineered for long-term performance
·Support Project Success: Your contributions to proposals, presentations, and cross-team communication will help advance key initiatives and support CBI's strategic growth.
·Champion Technical Excellence: By upholding engineering best practices, leveraging CAD tools, and applying rigorous standards, you will ensure that every deliverable reflects the highest level of quality and compliance.
Is this job for you ?
As a Design Engineer within our Commercial Building & Infrastructure (CBI) team, you will play a critical role in shaping the innovative products and engineered solutions that strengthen our commercial building portfolio. We need you because your technical expertise, creativity, and problem-solving mindset directly influence the quality, performance, and success of every project we deliver.
In this role, you will:
·Drive Innovation: You will transform engineering and architectural principles into practical, high performing solutions for CBI products. Your ability to generate innovative 2D and 3D concepts --supported by strong CAD proficiency --ensures we remain at the forefront of commercial building design
·Bridge Technical Disciplines: You will collaborate closely with engineers, architects, project managers, and cross-functional partners across CBI, serving as a key connector to ensure design intent, manufacturability, and performance align seamlessly.
·Bring Designs to Life: From detailed drawings to specifications, material estimates, and model integration, you will convert ideas into actionable plans that guide project execution and production. Your work ensures accuracy, efficiency, and engineering excellence at every stage.
·Enhance Product Quality & Functionality: Through thoughtful design work --including pattern development, modeling, blueprint interpretation, and adherence to industry standards --you will help deliver products that are functional, aesthetically compelling, and engineered for long-term performance
Support Project Success: Your contributions to proposals, presentations, and cross-team communication will help advance key initiatives and support CBI's strategic growth.
·Champion Technical Excellence: By upholding engineering best practices, leveraging CAD tools, and applying rigorous standards, you will ensure that every deliverable reflects the highest level of quality and compliance.
A little more about us
Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, trim, insulation, drywall and ceilings.
A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,300 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. www.certainteed.com
To make sure nothing is forgotten
At Saint-Gobain, our goal is to deliver a comprehensive Total Rewards package to support your well-being and improve daily life for you and your family. We value your contribution to our purpose, Making the World a Better Home, and your Total Rewards package aims to help you plan for the future you want.
Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs:
• Health and Wellbeing – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work.
• Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options
• LiveWell Wellness Program • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave • Retirement and Protection - Helping to make the future life you want a reality.
• 401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP), Cash Balance Pension Plan
• Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability
• Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness, and Accident Insurance
Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want
• Group Legal
• Identity Theft Protection
• Auto and Home Insurance
• Pet Insurance and Discounts
• Back-up Child & Elder Care
• PerkSpot Employee Discount Program
Legal Statement
Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.
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