Senior CAD Config & Modeling Engineer

Amphenol Communications Solutions; Yocumtown (PA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amphenol Communications Solutions seeks a seasoned CAD Designer to develop and maintain high-quality 3D models and drawings using SolidWorks, driving scalable configurations for product families. The role emphasizes robust GD&T application, drafting standards, and alignment with PLM controls.

You will lead standardization efforts across global teams, ensure design intent, and support downstream manufacturing and quality processes with reusable design elements and libraries.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Design, or related field.
• 5+ years of CAD design experience (SolidWorks preferred).
• Strong understanding of parametric modeling and design intent.
• Experience creating and managing configurations and design tables.
• Ability to structure models for scalability, reuse, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong working knowledge of GD&T principles and application in production drawings.
• Experience creating fully dimensioned manufacturing drawings with proper datums and tolerance schemes.
• Familiarity with industry standards (e.g., ASME Y14.5).
• Ability to define critical-to-function features and inspection requirements

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain parametric 3D models, assemblies, and drawings using SolidWorks (or equivalent CAD tools).
• Support engineering teams with accurate, production-ready, parametric models and documentation.
• Ensure designs meet performance, manufacturability, and quality requirements.
• Create detailed 2D production drawings with complete dimensioning and tolerancing aligned with company drafting standards.
• Apply GD&T to define functional requirements and ensure manufacturability.
• Ensure drawings include proper datums, critical tolerances, and inspection requirements.
• Maintain alignment between 3D models and 2D drawings to support manufacturing and quality control.
• Develop and maintain configurable models using design tables, configurations, and parametric controls.
• Structure models to enable easy expansion into product families and variants.
• Establish best practices for configuration management to ensure model stability and avoid rebuild issues.
• Support development of modular, reusable design elements and libraries.
• Define, document, and enforce CAD modeling standards (naming conventions, feature structure, design intent).
• Lead initiatives to standardize modeling approaches across products and teams.
• Establish and maintain drafting standards including dimensioning practices, tolerance schemes, and drawing structure.
• Ensure compliance with internal templates, tolerance blocks, and standard notes used in production drawings.
• Conduct model and drawing reviews and audits to ensure adherence to standards.
• Drive consistency between CAD models, drawings, and released documentation in PLM systems.
• Work with product development engineers to align models with design intent and future scalability.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, tooling, and quality teams to ensure models and drawings support downstream processes.
• Ensure GD&T schemes align with inspection capability and quality requirements.
• Interface with PLM/document control to ensure models and drawings are properly structured and released.
• Drive improvements in CAD efficiency, standardization, and reusability.
• Identify opportunities to reduce design time and errors through improved modeling and drafting practices.
• Support training and onboarding of team members on modeling standards, GD&T application, and configuration strategies.

Skills

CAD design

GD&T

Configuration-driven design

Standardization

Drafting & manufacturability

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Communication training

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

SolidWorks

Windchill

Job description

Amphenol Communications Solutions seeks a seasoned CAD Designer to develop and maintain high-quality 3D models and drawings using SolidWorks, driving scalable configurations for product families. The role emphasizes robust GD&T application, drafting standards, and alignment with PLM controls.

You will lead standardization efforts across global teams, ensure design intent, and support downstream manufacturing and quality processes with reusable design elements and libraries.