Junior Engineer

Job Summary

Under general supervision, carry out drafting assignments of a routine to moderately complex nature. 

Convert product design sketches into working documents by digitizing with Computer Aided Design (CAD) to enable a CAD operator to complete related computer entry. Produce complete drawings, review engineering drawings and support documentation. May take appropriate action to resolve details not completely defined. Final drawings must display completeness, clarity, and accuracy. Keep documents on such as work instructions up to date.  Track the change management progress and ensure change managements are filled out correctly. 

    Responsibility

• Ensure that all engineering documents are kept updated and record the correct revision.

• Track the completion of Change Management records.

• Design any data sheets that need to be implemented for documentation.

• Prepare and log Engineering drawings (process spec, tooling drawings).

• Support Program Managers/Project Engineers with process documentation as necessary.

• Create fully detailed engineering drawings that contain all necessary information from required specifications.

• Control/Update Plant Layout.

• Serve as Customer Owned Tooling representative (create/edit) customer owned tool database for Site.

• Adhere to all H&S and environmental laws and procedures.

Academic/Educational Requirements

Completion of a two-to-three-year college program in engineering design and drafting technology or in a related field is required or completion of a three-to-four-year apprenticeship program or four to five years of related experience plus completion of college or industry courses in drafting is required. 

Required Skills/Experience

• Essential Skills

  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English fluently.

  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Ability to meet or exceed the company’s attendance standards.

  • Ability to understand and follow directions given.

  • Ability to work with minimal supervision.

• Two to four years of related experience.

• Ability to read schematics, assembly drawings, blueprints, product specifications and geometric dimensioning tolerance (GD&T). Ability to enter personal scheduling details, tracking information and materials' details into tables and onto forms. Obtain project details and materials information from tables.

• Ability to decide presentation of additional design details in tables attached to drawing sets, considering how construction or manufacturing employees will use them and what format will be easy for them to use.

• Ability to work in a team environment to share opinions with co-workers, colleagues and peers about successful projects, problematic projects and drafting techniques. Meet with engineers, designers, other drafting professionals and various consultants to obtain additional information, clarification and feedback about drawings and to discuss projects' challenges.

• Ability to use problem solving and analytical skills to compare the dimensions in drawings to specifications to ensure they meet the requirements, and then compare the dimensions in one drawing to others to check their consistency.

• Ability to work independently while ensuring work meets the designers', engineers', technologists’ or operators’ vision.