Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary:
Senior Designers are primarily responsible for actively leading junior designers and managing the development of mechanical general arrangement, part, and assembly drawing packages for high-voltage switchgear, power switching devices, and capacitor banks. Coordinating with sales, manufacturing, and quality teams as the key technical advisor and product advocate, the Senior Designer must be able to identify and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to ensure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the engineering process. The Senior Designer must be able to establish and maintain strong relationships throughout the engineering cycle. Primary Responsibilities:

• Consistently apply basic drafting and design fundamentals and practices to promptly produce high-quality part, assembly, and general arrangement drawing sets pertaining to high-voltage switchgear and power switching devices.
• Adhere to ANSI, IEEE, ASTM, ASCE, AWS, CSA, and other organizational standards.
• Retain expert level of product knowledge and its application.
• Perform electrical, mechanical, and structural calculations and analysis.
• Coordinate with junior designers, sales, vendors, customers, and other Southern States divisions to ensure order fulfillment is satisfactory.
• Troubleshoot and resolve fabrication, assembly, production, and field installation difficulties consistent with Southern States’ mission, values, and financial objectives, in a timely manner.
• Issue formal documentation, descriptively detailing engineering changes in accordance with Southern States engineering standard practices and procedures.
• Produce ongoing status reports regarding active orders and special projects.
• Maintain accurate records pertaining to target accounts, opportunities, quotes, projects, contacts, and correspondences within company-approved databases and ERP.
• Identify customer needs and engineering opportunities for future growth.
• Travel to project sites to aid in sales support, startup, integration, and training services as required.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Education: Associate degree in Applied Science with a concentration in Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD), equivalent, or eight years of related experience
• Demonstrated AutoCAD experience
• SolidWorks or Inventor working experience with parts, assemblies, and drawings.
• Applied Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word) experience
• Strong fundamental drafting and design understanding
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Motivated with the ability to perform equally independently and in a team environment
• Punctual, business-casual attire, and well-groomed
• Available to travel <10%

• SolidWorks CSWP or greater
• High-voltage switchgear drafting and design experience
• Steel fabrication, galvanizing, and welding design experience
• Strength of materials and statistics knowledge is a plus
• Project management experience
• Hands-on construction, assembly, factory, or mechanic experience
• Statics calculation, such as bending moments, shear, compression, and tension, is a plus
• Visual Basics, Business Central, DevOps, PowerPoint, and SharePoint applied knowledge
• Electrical and electronics control wiring and schematics experience is a plus

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