Job Description
As a CAD/CAM Engineer, you will work as an integral member of Nautique's Manufacturing Engineering team. This position is responsible for all production-ready CNC files and related items. This includes, but is not limited to, producing, managing, and maintaining all CNC files used for production and service parts purposes.
Key Responsibilities:
CAD Design:
- Design, develop and engineer high-quality models using 3D and 2D CAD tools.
- Perform engineering work related to configuring, deploying, programming, optimizing, maintaining, and upgrading CAD files and models.
- Create and modify technical drawings, blueprints, and schematics with precision and accuracy.
- Collaborate with the design team to ensure designs meet technical specifications and functional requirements.
- Evaluate and analyze designs to meet targets for manufacturing feasibility, performance, cost, quality, safety, timing, and industry standards.
- Communicate production constraints as new designs are integrated into the manufacturing floor.
- Determine and communicate limitations, assumptions, and solutions in the design and development of CAD models.
- Aid and advise in the development of new products.
- Collaborate with the product design and development team to create full-size prototype parts for Production engineering and cost analysis.
- Track design iterations and respond quickly to changes.
- Create specification drawings for prototyping and manufacturing of new products.
CAM Programming:
- Integrate new product designs into production including CNC manufacturable files, manufacturing instructions, and visual management.
- Utilize a variety of CAM software to generate CNC programs for machining and manufacturing processes.
- Optimize manufacturing processes using 5S and Lean principles to enhance efficiency and minimize production time while maintaining quality standards.
- Aid production with CNC troubleshooting on program designs.
Quality Control and Documentation:
- Perform quality checks on designs and prototypes to ensure adherence to specifications and standards.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of design iterations, changes, and manufacturing processes.
- Capture material usages and create E-BOM's for in-house manufacturing items.
- Perform time studies and calculate labor costs for in-house manufacturing items.
- Maintain an understanding of the capacity of the CNC processes based off current required workload.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, designers, and manufacturing personnel to coordinate project objectives and timelines.
- Collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Managers, Operators to integrate new models, execute revisions, and implement changes on existing models.
- Provide technical expertise and support to resolve design and manufacturing issues.
- Ensure that all work carried out is in compliance with company design, safety, quality, environmental compliance, and procedural standards.
Skills and abilities for success in this position:
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to work closely with all members of the organization.
- Strong facilitation skills
- Excellent organization and project management skills
- Ability to adapt to changes in the work environment.
- Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to juggle and manage competing tasks and demands and deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Ability to make sound judgments and take the initiative to establish priorities, meet deadlines, and make decisions/choices within the functional area of responsibility with minimal direct supervision.
- Regular and punctual attendance.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere and interaction with customers, co-workers, and management.
- Ability to handle emergency situations calmly.
- Highly assertive and highly cooperative while working with others.