Direct hire opportunity with a stable and growing oil field equipment manufacturing firm’s Northwest Houston facility.

Our client has been an industry leader for decades, offers a family-friendly environment, and room for personal and professional development.

Salary: $70,000 – $75,000

Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc.)

Summary:

This is a hands-on manufacturing designer that will support the manufacturing of multiple products within our client’s manufacturing facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: may include any or all of the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop detailed design drawings and specifications for top drives and other related assemblies, mechanical equipment, etc. using computer-assisted design and drafting (CADD) computer software
• Work in conjunction with other engineers, project and shop personnel to produce detailed lay outs, hand sketches/drawings and project notes to convert into CADD blueprints
• Modify and revise designs to correct operating deficiencies or to reduce production problems
• Check dimensions of materials to be used and assign numbers to the materials
• Lay out and draw schematic, orthographic, or angle views to depict functional relationships of components, assemblies, systems, and machines
• Confer with shop personnel to review schematics and answer questions pertaining to assembly procedures and instructions
• Lay out, draw, and reproduce illustrations for reference manuals and technical publications to describe operation and maintenance of mechanical systems
• Plot and manage CAD files, original plots, and CNC part programs per company standards and manage the electronic file backups.

Qualifications:

Education and/or Experience:

2-Year degree highly preferred

3+ years of design related experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

3+ years of 3-D experience

Oil & gas industry/product design experience is required.

Knowledge of Top Drives is preferred

Other Skills, Abilities, etc.:

Must have experience in the use of all applicable design/drafting programs, specifically Inventor

Advanced working knowledge of the practical application of computer-assisted design and drafting, including applying principles, techniques, procedures, and various software applications in the design and production of various manufactured products