CAD Designer

Design
January 16, 2024

Job Description


Job title: CAD Designer

Company: SER Limited

Job description: Role Description

Produce accurate and detailed CAD models & technical drawings for the manufacture of my clients products & bespoke requirements against customer focussed design briefs.

Liaising with multiple departments, being the key design contact on live projects with Sales (and sometimes customers), Project Management, Procurement, Production & Installation teams.

Key Personal Attributes

  • Team player
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Positive attitude
  • Logical and methodical thinker
  • Problem solver

Essential Professional Attributes

  • Keen attention-to-detail
  • Ability to understand and apply new information
  • Participate in new ideas and techniques to further self & process development
  • Understanding of mechanical construction techniques
  • Personable and positive attitude to work within a design team and with wider teams and departments
  • Process and accuracy driven
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Articulate, with the ability to communicate with all levels

Essential Professional Skills

  • 5 years Solidworks experience (will consider similar level of ability with alternative software, ie. Autodesk Inventor)
  • Experience within revision controlled & process driven design environment
  • Ability to work to critical deadlines
  • Quick thinker with common sense
  • Strong level of knowledge across a broad range of production for both design and process:

– aluminium profile
– sheet metal fabrication
– Tubular fabrication & welding
– Sheet timber construction
– Sheet plastics construction * Experience working on quick-turnaround projects whilst maintaining focus

  • Experience collaborating with Account Managers to translate and interpret design briefs
  • Experience in working in a client focussed environment
  • Experience in a retail design or exhibition style industry advantageous
  • Electrical and/or LED experience advantageous

Key Responsibilities

  • Generating detailed drawing packs for both customer sign-off and production
  • Willing development of knowledge of my clients products and applying for production through project understanding, in-house training and self-development
  • Project ownership and full understanding to facilitate communication across sales, production and installation teams
  • Creating production detail design from design briefs or concepts
  • Modifying and updating existing drawings as required
  • Working with the Solidworks PDM Vault to ensure revision-controlled drawing detail
  • Ensuring all drawings produced are accurate to brief and completed to schedule
  • Ensure drawings meet the specifications required by the production team
  • Provide technical advice and support to internal and external stakeholders
  • Working within a strong and developing design team
  • Maintain excellent levels of communication with internal teams:
  • Point of contact for design queries from clients or internal team members when required
  • To look for opportunities to reduce costs in design, process, materials used and manufacturing techniques

What we offer you:

  • Attractive salary
  • Free onsite parking
  • Non-corporate working environment
  • 23 days annual holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • Additional paid bank holiday on the last working day of the year before Christmas
  • Christmas shut down
  • Regular social events
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Cash heal

Expected salary: £32000 per year

Location: Manchester

Job date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 23:18:08 GMT

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