Senior CAD Designer

Title:

CAD Engineer/Designer

Location:

Liberty, NC Duration: 12 months

Required skills:

• Associate degree, technical certification, CAD/drafting certificate, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of CAD experience in industrial, manufacturing, construction, facility, or equipment installation environments.
• Advanced AutoCAD capability for 2D layouts, plant utilities, equipment layouts, installation drawings, and contractor scope drawings.
• Working proficiency with Autodesk Revit, Inventor, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), and Autodesk Forma.

• Create manufacturing-ready and construction-ready drawing packages.
• Interpret mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, piping, utility, facility, equipment layout, and vendor drawings.
• Incorporate redlines, field verification results, as-built updates, and drawing revisions.
• Apply drawing standards, title blocks, layers, naming conventions, revision control, drawing registers, release workflows, and transmittal expectations.
• Review supplier, contractor, and vendor drawings for dimensional accuracy, installation feasibility, interface conflicts, completeness, and alignment to project requirements.

• Create complete fabrication and installation documentation packages using Autodesk Inventor and/or AutoCAD 2D.
• Develop 3D assembly models, assembly drawings, detail drawings, fabrication prints, parts lists, balloon callouts, Bills of Material (BOM), material specifications, and contractor-ready bidding packages.
• Apply practical GD&T per ASME Y14.5, including datum structures, dimensional tolerances, critical functional requirements, weld symbols, materials, finishes, and fabrication requirements.
• Develop fabrication packages from engineering concepts, sketches, field conditions, project requirements, component selections, utility/equipment interfaces, and installation constraints.

• Support layout integration, utility routing, equipment access, service clearances, installation constraints, and equipment removal paths.
• Work in a manufacturing plant environment, including field walkdowns, contractor coordination, PPE usage, and occasional support outside normal office conditions.
• Manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
• Communicate clearly with engineers, contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Own schedule follow-up and timely status reporting..

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, manufacturing, construction management, or related technical field.
• Autodesk certification, ASME Y14.5/GD&T training, OSHA 10, or similar technical/safety certification.

• Autodesk Vault experience, including check-in/check-out, revision history, lifecycle/release workflow, and drawing search/retrieval.
• AutoCAD Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Solid Works, CATIA, Micro Station, or other CAD/BIM/model coordination tools beyond the required Autodesk platform.
• AutoCAD Electrical, Uni Draf, or similar systems for electrical, controls, or schematic drawing updates.

• Automotive, battery, clean room, dry room, electrode/module/cell production, or high-volume automated production experience.
• New plant startup, brownfield equipment installation, major model change, or production ramp-up support.
• Facility utilities such as compressed air, chilled water, process exhaust, HVAC, ventilation, dust collection, vacuum, chemical/process utilities, or electrical power distribution.
• Wet dust collectors, dry dust collectors, exhaust/ventilation, or environmental support systems.

• CAD automation, drawing templates, BOM export workflows, spare-part documentation, or maintenance-support drawings.
• Mentoring junior CAD technicians or improving CAD standards, layer conventions, title blocks, and release processes.
• Our Client Production System, Standardized Work, Job Instruction Sheets, JKK, TBP, equipment handover, or Our Client-specific project documentation.