Senior Technical Designer

Job Description The Senior Technical Designer is primarily responsible for managing one or more members of the technical design department, including developing fabrication, construction, and drafting plans for the projects produced. This position is responsible for creating or delegating 3D models and 2D construction plates to other support members of the Technical Design Team. The Senior Technical Designer is responsible for considering the scope of the project and for interpreting the design intent to create the best construction plan possible based on the budgetary and schedule constraints of the project. They also work with the Project Managers and Director of Production to provide accurate, efficient plans for the different fabrication departments and are responsible for the creation and maintenance of all modeling, drafting, and CNC programming standards. The Senior Technical Designer is one of two or more Senior Technical Designers reporting directly to the Director of Projects.

• Manage and Supervise one or more technical design staff (full time on site and / or part time remote members) and proactively assign tasks to the based on project information and schedule
• Assign due dates to the Technical Design staff based on the overall shop schedule and in conjunction with the project-specific schedule
• Develop and implement material and construction choices per project based on information from Project Management and feedback from the Director of Projects
• Create 3D models and work-out engineering challenges to either turn into construction drawings or to delegate to the Technical Design team
• Continuously and consistently work towards improving processes, drafting standards, cad templates, block library, etc.
• Works with client / designer as needed per request by the Project Manager and Director of Projects
• Work with other departments to explore / experiment with new products and materials
• Review completed models before the technical design team creates construction drawings
• Review construction drawings before they are released to the shop
• Lead project engineering meetings
• Collaborate with Director of Projects, Project Managers and Director of Production to navigate the parameters of the project and how best to construct assets
• Assist in creating and maintaining all shop processes and standards as they relate to how things are made
• Lead part standards creation
• Supervise storage, distribution, and collection of all drawings for each project via cloud-based storage and physical documents
• Supervise health of plotter and printer to prevent disruption of drawing flow to the shop
• Supervise, delegate, or create closeout documents per project
• Coordinate with outside Structural or Mechanical Engineers as needed per project
• Participate in standard meetings (kickoff meetings, staff meetings, engineering meetings, postmortems, etc.)
• Lead or participate in site surveys as needed

Requirements

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