Engineering Designer

Engineering Designer

The Engineering Designer provides conceptual and flow designs, detail designs and drafting, standardization and quality improvement strategies for the department. Equally important the Engineering Designer must serve as a critical interface with manufacturing for quality fabrication and installation of designed systems, helping to reduce the overall cost of operations.

OA Newton designs and produces material handling systems using mechanical or pneumatic conveying for movement of bulk material such as PVC, wood flour, grain, and carbon black, serving the building products, friction products, and agri-business industries.

Job duties include revising or creating ACAD / Solidworks drawings per verbal or written direction from supervisor with efficiency and accuracy, maintaining engineering drawing log, proper filing and archiving of engineering project manuals, managing drawings for job order releases, transmittals, meetings, compilation and distribution of transmittal packages, revising or creating standard M2M BOM’s, revising or creating job order M2M BOM’s, compilation and distribution of job order packets to production office, compilation and distribution of customer project manuals, performing volumetric design calculations for capacities, performing speed calculations for blowers, fans and airlocks, performing air filtration calculations for bin vents, filter receivers, dust collectors, and assisting with project site documentation visits.

Expectations include participating in ongoing product development, increasing standardization, and development of innovative designs and practices at the direction of the Engineering Manager, acting as a leader in engineering quality and cost reduction through quality improvement, design for manufacturing and assembly, and design for transport, continually improving effectiveness using the tools at OA Newton, continually developing standards and design modules that promote repeatability in fabrication and provide consistent field results, routinely visiting customer locations for field verifications, and delivering designs on projects in harmony with the assigned Project Manager according to schedule, and allocating and requesting resources as necessary.