CAD Designer (Solidworks)

A.O. Smith - Lebanon, TN

Full-time - Entry Level

Lebanon, TN

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

The CAD Designer (Solidworks) at A. O. Smith Corporation plays a crucial role in the Customer Product Engineering Team, serving as the primary CAD resource. This position involves customizing products into turnkey solutions for customers, collaborating closely with engineers, and supporting manufacturing processes. The role also includes programming a plasma cutter for custom projects, ensuring that designs meet quality and performance standards.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with project engineers on new product layout utilizing good verbal and organizational skills with minimal supervision.
• Assist in build up of prototypes during pre-pilot stage of project, making necessary corrections to design.
• Support manufacturing during initial production runs.
• Create full assemblies for fit up and alignment of parts.
• Check models, drawings, Product Change Processes and BOM's for clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications and accuracy of calculations, dimensions and tolerancing.
• Generate 3D solid models of parts and assemblies to ensure proper fit, form, and function.
• Perform interference and tolerance stack up analysis.
• Process Product Change Processes utilizing PLM system in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure item and bill of material attributes are accurate and maintained in PLM system.
• Recommend menu and tool bar changes to CAD Department Supervisor for all design software to facilitate productivity.

Requirements

• Associate's degree in related field required; Bachelor's degree a plus.
• 3+ years of combined work experience or education/training.
• A good understanding of data management or PLM is preferred.
• Possess good working knowledge of the Windows platform and understands basic windows commands and has a good understanding of windows file system.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as Engineering Change Request, Red lines, ANSI standards, operating and maintenance instructions, corporate rules and regulations as well as departmental procedures.
• Ability to apply basic mathematical concepts such as trigonometry, geometry, algebra and basic equations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to task for determination of area, percentages, volume and tolerance build up.
• Ability to read measuring instruments to calculate overall dimensions fit and build-up.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Solidworks CAD software.
• Familiarity with programming plasma cutters.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement