Design Technician III

Planet Pharma; Lafayette (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Pharma seeks a mechanical/technical engineer to design components and refine existing designs to enable manufacturing and field service operations. You will use CAD tools and GD&T to create reliable, manufacturable solutions, coordinating with engineering, manufacturing, and planning teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, fixture setup, data gathering, and documenting results to support process improvements and product development efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering/technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to improve products and facilitate manufacturing and field service operations.
• Coordinates design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, material, and planning groups to ensure ease of manufacture and adherence to specs.

Skills

CAD & Engineering Drawings

Mechanical Testing

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related engineering/technical discipline

Tools

CAD

CAM

CATIA

ProEngineer

Solidworx

Siemens NX

Job description

Top 3 technical skills that you are looking for in a candidates experience:

• CAD & Engineering Drawings - Strong modeling, and GD&T capabilities
• Mechanical Testing and Troubleshooting skills - hands-on ability to build fixtures, perform inspection and testing, troubleshoot mechanical issues, collect and document results.
• Ability to understand and communicate technical design changes to a cross-functional team - execution of changes and understanding the impact to the changes enabled by strong understanding of DFM.

Education Required

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or another related engineering/technical discipline.

Years' Experience Required

4 years minimum

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing and field service operations. Utilizes computer-aided design equipment and/or graphic tools, such as CAD, CAM, CATIA, ProEngineer, Solidworx or Siemens NX Software. Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts, sketches to present design proposal. Coordinates design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, material, and planning group such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials, and contractual specifications.

TECHNICIAN SUPPORT CAREER STREAM:

Provides technical support in areas such as production, operations, maintenance, safety, testing, process improvement or product development. Uses schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment or systems. Gathers, maintains, formats, compiles, and manipulates technical data using established formulae and procedures, and performs detailed mathematical calculations. For higher levels, may suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor, working under limited supervision, and providing assistance and training to lower level employees. Runs minor projects, including performing tests, interpreting data, developing reports. Organizational Impact: Performs technical activities requiring considerable judgment and may have ownership of minor projects. Work consists of technical tasks that are typically not routine. Innovation and Complexity: Technical problems faced are general, and may require some analysis to understand and resolve. Expected to independently propose solutions to problems for supervisor review. Communication and Influence: Communicates typically with internal contacts. Obtains and provides technical information on matters of moderate importance to the job area. Leadership and Talent Management: Responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Requires complete and broad knowledge of systems, techniques, tools and procedures typically obtained through prior related work experience, training, and/or education. Requires 3+ years of relevant technical experience, which may include a combination of practical experience and applicable training, education, or certification. No minimum education requirement. Some countries/ jobs may require vocational training and/or certification.