Associate CAD Designer — 3D Modeling for Military Hardware

Cessna Aircraft Company; Cockeysville (MD); On-site; USD 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Schedules

Education Assistance

Wellness Program

Medical, Dental, Vision & 401(K) with

Job summary

Textron Systems, part of Textron, seeks an Associate Hardware Designer to support unmanned military product lines such as Aerosonde and Ripsaw. You will create and check engineering content, data packages, and ECNs for top-level assemblies, while working with engineers to ensure producibility and compliance to standards.

You will develop 3D models, drawings, and electrical schematics, using NX/SolidWorks and JIRA for task tracking, in a hands-on, internship-like progression aimed at practical

Qualifications

• Working on associate’s degree in Drafting and Design Technology, or equivalent preferred.
• Experience in a common solid modeling software package, with Siemens NX preferred.
• Experience as a mechanical designer, with aircraft hardware design and integration experience preferred.
• Ability to visualize components and assemblies in 3D.
• Knowledge of drafting principles.
• Familiarity with and ability to check drawings to ASME Y14 standards.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products – Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Highly organized and efficient.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Creation of mechanical solid models from conceptual sketches, specification sheets and verbal direction.
• Receive, create, and record JIRA tickets for tracking assignments.
• Translation of engineering requirements to source and vendor control documentation.
• Cataloging of vendor and supplier-controlled components, models, and specifications.
• Release of specifications, drawings, and ECNs within the eMATRIX system.
• Interface with Product engineers, Manufacturing engineers and Machinists to produce accurate product representations and incorporate design for manufacturability feedback.
• Perform tolerance calculations (“tolerance stacks”) of detail parts and sub-assemblies.
• Development of component and subassembly drawings to ASME Y14 standards, inclusive of all planforms, sectional and isometric views, notes and GD&T.
• Generation of production drawings for multiple manufacturing methods; including machining, sheet metal forming and weldments.
• Generation of electrical schematics and wiring diagrams from sketches, drawings, datasheets, and verbal direction.
• Produce engineering Bills of Materials in the eMATRIX system in concert with product definition release.
• Checking of drawings per company and ASME Y14 standards.

Skills

3D Visualization

ASME Y14

Drafting standards

JIRA familiarity

NX/SolidWorks

MS Office

Detail-oriented

Team communication

Education

Associate’s degree in Drafting and Design Technology

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

JIRA

eMATRIX

Job description

Textron Systems, part of Textron, seeks an Associate Hardware Designer to support unmanned military product lines such as Aerosonde and Ripsaw. You will create and check engineering content, data packages, and ECNs for top-level assemblies, while working with engineers to ensure producibility and compliance to standards.

You will develop 3D models, drawings, and electrical schematics, using NX/SolidWorks and JIRA for task tracking, in a hands-on, internship-like progression aimed at practical