CAD/Product Definition Mechanical Designer

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Inventor assemblies using sound modeling practices, including appropriate constraints, part relationships, feature organization, model-tree discipline, and assembly-level design intent.
• Support design engineers during concept development by identifying modeling challenges, clearance issues, tolerance concerns, fabrication constraints, and potential fit, form, or function risks early in the design cycle.
• Revise and refine existing models to support design optimization, hardware changes, field modifications, tolerance adjustments, material substitutions, and configuration updates.
• Maintain model integrity throughout iterative design cycles, ensuring changes are traceable, controlled, and consistent with approved engineering direction.
• Define appropriate drawing views, section cuts, detail views, notes, dimensions, tolerances, parts lists, and bill-of-material structures needed to clearly communicate the design.
• Review drawing packages for completeness, internal consistency, title block accuracy, revision history, BOM correctness, and alignment with the approved CAD model.
• Support compliance with applicable ASME drawing practices, including drawing format, line types, symbols, notes, views, and documentation conventions.
• Ensure CAD models, drawings, bills of material, part metadata, revision histories, engineering change records, and supporting technical data are complete, accurate, and traceable within the applicable PDM/PLM environment.
• Support model-based and data-centric engineering practices by maintaining consistency between 3D CAD models, released drawings, BOMs, interface documentation, and as-built/as-installed configuration records.
• Support the development of a reliable digital product baseline that improves lifecycle visibility, configuration awareness, and reuse of proven design data across future program efforts.
• Support engineering change order, drawing release, revision-control, and redline-incorporation processes.
• Ensure CAD models, drawings, BOMs, and released documentation remain synchronized throughout iterative design cycles.
• Support disciplined technical-data management to ensure design products remain usable, searchable, traceable, and suitable for future program needs.
• Support field measurements, hardware walkdowns, as-built updates, redline incorporation, and physical-to-digital configuration reconciliation.