What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Engineer II position at Scientific Search?
Design Engineer
Position Summary
This position will be responsible for providing detailed mechanical drawings and bill of materials for customer approval and shop fabrication; as well as demonstrating a strong aptitude for engineering work.
Duties/Responsibilities
Position Summary
This position will be responsible for providing detailed mechanical drawings and bill of materials for customer approval and shop fabrication; as well as demonstrating a strong aptitude for engineering work.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Collects engineer’s and customer’s specifications and creates accurate mechanical drawings with the appropriate level of detail by following departmental drawing standards.
- Performs proficient minor load calculations.
- Assumes the responsibility of the lead designer on larger complex projects.
- Completes and submits customer approval drawings on projects and provides correspondence to customers regarding approval drawings.
- Contact the customer and/or project manager with questions related to drawings.
- Performs/Leads design reviews with internal and external customers to provide an accurate representation of the equipment being fabricated.
- Completes a bill of materials for the project.
- Loads of material for designs in purchasing software.
- Monitors and initiates additional work authorizations for appropriate drawing changes.
- Provides support when needed for material requisitions, additional work authorization, estimates, and project management.
- Collaborates with Process Engineers to create process piping 3D system models based on customer specifications and Process and Instrument Diagrams (PID’s)
- Develops and verify fabrication, general arrangement, base frame assembly, construction, weld map, slope, and heat map drawings as well as piping bill of materials.
- Recognizes and identifies BPE (Pharmaceutical grade) requirements along with sanitary and good manufacturing practices.
- Complete understanding of weld symbols and weld processes.
- Participates in the Team Improvement Board (TIB) process by attending daily huddles, understands data being collected, developing solutions to issues encountered, focusing on the reduction of the eight (8) forms of wastes and participates in improvement projects.
- Presents the team’s TIB during the GEMBA walk representing the Systems Design Team’s initiatives and improvements.
- An associate degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school in mechanical or architectural design, as well as 4-6 years of mechanical design experience is preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Must have working knowledge of AutoCAD and Inventor software and advanced knowledge of 3D solids, which highly utilize UCS orientations, for the completion of required drawings, as well as demonstrating a strong aptitude for engineering work.
- A thorough understanding and ability to use all Microsoft software applications is required.
- Pipe design as well as BPE experience desired but not required for this position.