CAD Design Engineer - NPI - CelLink

CAD Design Engineer

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Converting and updating 3D CAD models and 2D drawings of wire harnesses, circuits, and battery pack interconnects using CAD best practices and processes.
• Incorporate customer, design, and DFM feedback to ensure parts are manufacturable and meet functional requirements.
• Support the Process Engineering team by adding manufacturing features to existing CAD designs.
• Assist with the creation and release of engineering component and assembly drawings.
• Assist with 2D geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Perform CAD data transfer to internal stakeholders.
• Provide CAD training to engineers and formulate CelLink-specific CAD best practice documents.
• Work with New Product Development group to develop design strategies for new products.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, CAD design, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in CAD design (Electrical components or automotive preferred).
• Experience managing large 3D files (component and assembly).
• Independent problem solver with a desire to learn new skills and new technology.
• Strong organization skills and detail-oriented mindset.
• Able to adapt to changing requirements in a fast-paced start-up setting.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, and ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

Plusses

• Experience with SolidWorks.
• Prior start-up experience.
• DFM experience.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Working Conditions/Hours

Salaried Exempt

Physical Demands – Office and Manufacturing Environment

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment – 

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines.

PPE

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump-caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures.