Contract to Perm Senior Design Specialist

Amstec Emterprise is seeking a Senior Design Specialist who ensures designs are free from layout process defects

Job Description:

• Creates innovative and practical mechanical and electro-mechanical concepts and designs for components, assemblies, tools, and products of varying complexity.
• Works closely with engineering, vendors, manufacturing, quality, and customers on design specifications.
• Ensures designs are free of layout process defects.
• May assist engineers with defining design standards and configurations.
• Applies Computer Aided Design (CAD) methodologies, theories, and techniques.
• Reviews various completed engineering documents to ensure compliance with engineering and military standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensions.
• Provides expert technical consultation to the division and customer community relative to comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of design.
• Current Creo 9 experience required.
• MBD (Model-Based Definition) experience is a huge plus.
• Develops highly innovative concepts that satisfy functional and operational requirements for existing product lines and new product development programs.
• Ensures that CAD models can easily transition to modeling and simulation software.
• Prepares the most complex design layouts, schematics, or sketches, including test plans, procedures, or specifications, to satisfy system and integration requirements within cost and producibility constraints.
• Prepares drawing packages to military or equivalent ASME standards.
• Checks completed layouts, drawings, test plans, test reports, procedures, and change history documentation (e.g., engineering change notices) for clarity, completeness, conformance to standards, and accuracy of calculations and dimensions.
• Coordinates closely with systems engineers to ensure designs satisfy contractual requirements.
• Evaluates completed drawings, specifications, and procedures for producibility and viability of design, appropriateness of tolerances, fits, finishes, materials, and validates integration of equipment.
• Positions are onsite only.

Skills Required:

• Proficient in tolerance analysis and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Proficient in use of applicable CAD equipment and drafting techniques including 3D modeling and manipulation of files.
• Comprehensive knowledge of military drawings and specifications, and applicable MILSPEC/STD’s.
• Comprehensive product line knowledge at the component, subsystem, and system levels.
• Comprehensive knowledge of production methods and understanding of human factors.
• Knowledge of MBD (Model Based Definition) is a huge plus.

Experience Required:

• Proficient in tolerance analysis and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Proficient in use of applicable CAD equipment and drafting techniques including 3D modeling and manipulation of files.
• Comprehensive knowledge of military drawings and specifications, and applicable MILSPEC/STD’s.
• Comprehensive product line knowledge at the component, subsystem, and system levels.
• Comprehensive knowledge of production methods and understanding of human factors.
• Knowledge of MBD (Model Based Definition) is a huge plus.

Experience Preferred

• Minimum 9 years of design/drafting experience using Pro-E/Creo CAD system.

Education:

• Associate degree with emphasis in engineering drafting/design or an equivalent combination of training and experience; plus, a minimum of nine additional years drafting and design experience, including five years of advanced design concepts and applications.