Engineering Designer

Join us as an Engineering Designer at O.A. Newton . JOB SUMMARY: The Engineering Designer provides conceptual and flow designs, detail designs, and drafting, standardization, and quality improvement strategies for the department. 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. SITUATION: O.A. 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:

Revise or create ACAD / Solidworks drawings per verbal or written direction from supervisor with efficiency and accuracy. Maintain 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. Revise or create standard M2M BOM’s. Revise or create job order M2M BOM’s. Compilation and distribution of job order packets to production office. Compilation and distribution of customer project manuals. Perform volumetric design calculations for capacities. Perform speed calculations for blowers, fans, and airlocks. Perform air filtration calculations for bin vents, filter receivers, dust collectors. Assist with project site documentation visits.

EXPECTATIONS:

Participate in ongoing product development, increasing standardization, and development of innovative designs and practices at the direction of the Engineering Manager. Act as a leader in engineering quality and cost reduction through quality improvement, design for manufacturing and assembly, and design for transport. Continually improve effectiveness using the tools at O.A. Newton: the Made2Manage ERP system to specify Bills of Material (BOM), Spare Parts Lists (SPL), Job Order Releases for purchasing and fabrication, Routings, and other key parameters including report generation; AutoCAD / Solidworks for development of System Flow Diagrams, Stack-ups, and Detail Drawings; and MS Project, to provide Gantt charts and schedule work on large system designs. Continually develop standards and design modules that promote repeatability in fabrication and provide consistent field results. Routinely visit customer locations for field verifications. Deliver designs on projects in harmony with the assigned Project Manager according to schedule, and allocating and requesting resources as necessary. About O.A. Newton: Established in 1916, O.A. Newton has been meeting the needs of customers in a variety of industries. We are a major provider of Material Handling Solutions and Blend Plants throughout the World. O.A. Newton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr O.A. Newton