CXT - Design Engineer - Florida Precast

The Design Engineer II is responsible for engineering initiatives related to product design of precast concrete panels for residential and light commercial buildings and general concrete products and to provide technical support to internal and external customers.  Provide expertise-level knowledge on general building construction, precast concrete, energy codes, as well as The Florida Building Code.

Responsibilities:
1.

Responsible for converting exterior wall designs from existing house plans to a prefabricated precast concrete system design, as well as to design other precast products to meet customer and regulatory specifications.

Design process includes creating complete drawing packages and calculations for building official approval.
2.

Provide technical support to outside sales team with specifications, solution recommendations, and generation of estimates & proposals Understand product costing and ensure accurate estimates.
3.

Participate in meetings with building officials, engineers, and architects.
4.

Create submittal packages, proposal drawings and production drawing sets.
5.

Produce Bills of Materials (BOM) from manufacturing instructions, drawings, and other tools.
6.

Provide quality review of prepared drawings for engineering team prior to submittal to sales and operations.
7.

Collaborate with Quality Control Department in understanding specifications and performing first article validation, as well as provide technical guidance and problem solving to production staff on site at Leesburg, Florida plant.
8.

Provide and implement continual improvement suggestions using software automation and streamlining of processes to reduce time, errors and costs when designing drawings and submittal packages.
9.

Attend and professionally represent the engineering team in meetings with production, quality, sales, and project managers.
10.

Other duties as assigned.

Experience, Education and License Requirements:


* Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Structural engineering, or similar degree required.


* 2-4 years’ experience in residential or building construction.

Skills & Abilities


* Proficient in the use of Autodesk products (AutoCAD or AutoCAD Architecture).


* Proven experience in design, drafting, and estimating.


* Professional level understanding of drafting standards & principles.


* Advanced with Microsoft Excel (formulas, hyperlinks, sorting and searching data).


* Must be capable of working with minimal supervision, able to communicate clearly with productions crews and other remote team members verbally and through writing


* Intermediate knowledge of mathematical concepts (calculate volumes, load calculations, metric equivalents, drawing scales) and ability to calculate by hand and other tools.


* Must be detail oriented and able to read design and production drawings


* Ability to work safely in an industrial manufacturing environment.


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