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Engineered Wood Products Designer/Plans Coordinator

Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/29/2025
Description

Weyerhaeuser is leading the world's structural framing market with innovative products, systems, and services for use in a variety of residential, Multi-Family, light commercial and home improvement applications worldwide. We are searching for an Engineered Wood Products Designer/plans coordinator to become a member of our Western Specification Team that is aligned within our dynamic Marketing and Sales organization. We support our vision by providing an array of proprietary software applications (Javelin™, Forte®, Estima™, CAD) that allow our strategic partners to design, layout and perform material optimization for engineered lumber and other structural frame products that ensure their success as well as our own.

Design associates efficiently provide accurate, value-added layout drawings, material lists, and design services to end users of Weyerhaeuser products. Plan coordination involves reviewing incoming blueprint PDF’s to ensure all required documents are submitted. Plans are logged into our plans management system and scheduled based on capacity and available resources. This role is to be a 50/50 mix of both design and plan coordination.

This role is a fully remote work-from-home position, with the occasional need to be on site at one of our Distribution Centers located in Tacoma, WA, Boise, ID, Albany, OR, or Spokane, WA. Applicants must currently reside in one of these states. This role is not open to those who live in other states or countries.

Key Functions:

  • As the Engineered Wood Products Designer, you will use design tools and software applications to provide a variety of technical services that support the design and specification of Weyerhaeuser Structural Frame products.

  • You will produce framing layouts for floor, roof and wall systems. as well as provide design calculations for single structural members.

  • As a plan coordinator you will be responsible for ensuring all necessary plans and details are provided to complete a framing layout and/or obtaining what is needed from the customer

  • You will coordinate the log in process, assignment of projects, notification to customers of expected completion dates and coordinate current capacity availability

  • In addition, you will provide design consultation to dealers, builders, general contractors, building inspectors, architects and engineers, sales associates and owners in an effort to provide innovative solutions to framing challenges.

Find out more about Weyerhaeuser at www.weyerhaeuser.com and learn our Story here: https://youtu.be/c2R_lQ7wo0A

Qualifications
  • 2-year technical degree OR equivalent construction industry experience

  • Ability to read and comprehend Residential Wood Frame construction documents

  • Microsoft Office suite knowledge – Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.

  • Excellent communication and customer service skills

Desired Qualifications:

  • Residential wood framing construction background

  • Working knowledge of CAD and/or estimating applications

  • Certification in structural/architectural drafting

  • Previous experience with Engineered Wood Products (i-joists, GLB’s)

  • Previous Designer, Estimator or plan coordination experience

We sustainably manage forests and manufacture products that make the world a better place. We’re serious about safety, driven to achieve excellence, and proud of what we do. With multiple business lines in locations across North America, we offer a range of exciting career opportunities for smart, talented people who are passionate about making a difference.

What We Offer...

Compensation: This role is eligible for our annual merit-increase program, and we are targeting a salary range of $58,000 - $86,000 based on your level of skills, qualifications and experience. You will also be eligible for our Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 5% of base pay. Potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target.

Benefits: When you join our team, you and your dependents will be offered coverage under our comprehensive employee benefits plan, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. We offer a pre-tax Health Savings Account option which includes a company contribution. Other benefit options are also available such as voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs. We also support personal volunteerism, sponsor a host of diversity networks, promote mentoring, and provide training and development opportunities to help you chart your path to a fulfilling career.

Retirement: Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, which includes a paid company match in addition to our annual contribution equal to 5% of your base salary.

Paid Time Off or Vacation: We provide eligible employees who are scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week with 3-weeks of paid vacation to use during your first year of employment. In addition, after being employed for six months, eligible employees begin to accrue vacation for future use. We also recognize eleven paid holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours

We know you have a choice in your career. We want you to choose us.

Weyerhaeuser is an equal opportunity employer. Inclusion is one of our five core values, and we strive to maintain a culture where all our people feel a sense of belonging, opportunity and shared purpose. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and supporting an equitable and inclusive environment that inspires people of all backgrounds to join, stay and thrive with our team.

Job Customer Service, Design, Sales & Marketing
Primary LocationUSA-WA-Tacoma
Other LocationsUSA-ID-Boise, USA-OR-Albany, USA-WA-Spokane Valley
Schedule Full-time
Job Level Individual Contributor
Job Type Experienced
Shift Day (1st)

Salary : $58,000 - $86,000

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