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Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

This role is in Textron System’s Weapon Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!

About This Role

Textron Systems Weapon Systems is looking for an experienced Engineering Drawing Checker to support a major US Air Force Program and emerging programs.

Responsibilities

• To ensure the quality of the Technical Product Documentation by ensuring that all drawings are produced in accordance with both published national/international standards, and company design standards in a timely fashion in line with program release schedule.

• Contribute to the identification of any identified technical shortcomings and recommend/propose solutions

• Check and approve engineering drawings from the points of view of; technical completeness, clarity, conformance with standards, dimensional accuracy and the correct specification of materials and processes

• Check and approve tolerance stack analyses for technical completeness and correctness

• Assist Program Engineers with promoting and developing a generally higher level of engineering drawing, GD&T and tolerance stack analysis skills across the team through one-to-one mentoring and group training activities where required

• Manage checking request log, quickly adjusting to changing priorities of multiple design teams

• Ownership of program review checklists to track approved formatting and notifying design team of common findings

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a design/manufacturing/inspection environment which required the use and interpretation of engineering drawings

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to manage one’s own workload and time

• Experience of:

  • Engineering drawing authoring or checking within a mechanical design environment

  • Working within an environment of continuous and rapid technical change

• A thorough technical understanding of mechanical engineering drawing principles, including (but not limited to):

  • Fundamentals such as projection angles, line types, view types, dimensioning methods, title block and change block information