Draughtsman

JobSpace; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Annual Flu jabs

Training opportunities

Job summary

Modern Transport Engineers (MTE Group) is seeking a diligent Draughtsman for our Te Rapa site. You will prepare fabrication drawings and BOMs from senior engineers' designs and contribute to schematics and assembly instructions.

The role is intended to evolve into a design engineer for the right candidate, with a path through training and design reviews. You will join a team handling heavy transport projects, ensuring quality documentation and detailed machined parts, while collaborating closely

Qualifications

• Strong English communication, written and verbal.
• Experience in transport and understanding of Land Transport rules preferable.
• Experience in SolidWorks or AutoCAD.
• Good mechanical aptitude.
• Team player with iterative design mindset.
• Willingness to engage in design reviews and value quality.

Responsibilities

• Producing fabrication drawings and quality control documentation for the production team.
• Producing staged bills of materials for projects.
• Producing schematics and assembly instructions.
• Detailing machined parts.
• Project and quality management.
• Design analysis and technical problem solving.

Skills

Strong English

Mechanical aptitude

Team player

Tools

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

Job description

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MTE designs and manufactures a range of trailers and bespoke heavy transport projects for our customers. This is a technical role in Modern Transport Engineers design department. The role will primarily involve preparing bills of materials and working drawings for production from senior engineers’ designs. This role is intended to evolve into a design engineer role for the right candidate.

Draughtsman

Modern Transport Group of Companies “MTE Group” is the largest heavy transport manufacturing company in New Zealand, and we are looking for an enthusiastic draughtsman to join our team at our Te Rapa production site.

MTE designs and manufactures a range of trailers and bespoke heavy transport projects for our customers. This is a technical role in Modern Transport Engineers design department. The role will primarily involve preparing bills of materials and working drawings for production from senior engineers’ designs. This role is intended to evolve into a design engineer role for the right candidate.

Key responsibilities:

• Producing fabrication drawings and quality control documentation for the production team
• Producing staged bills of materials for projects
• Producing schematics and assembly instructions
• Detailing machined parts
• Project and quality management
• Design analysis and technical problem solving

The successful candidate will have/be:

• Strong English communicator both written and verbal
• Experience in transport and an understanding of the Land Transport rules is preferable
• Experience in Solidworks or Autocad
• Good mechanical aptitude
• Preferably some practical experience with fabricationWork well in a team
• Be welcoming of design reviews and understand the importance of an iterative design process
• Have a strong focus on quality

Modern transport engineers can offer you:

• An exciting and varying workload
• A supportive close-knit team environment where your opinion and ideas will be valued
• Training opportunities and a pathway to a design engineer role
• Competitive remuneration
• Annual Flu jabs

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.