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This role is centered on translating engineering intent into accurate, manufacturable 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, bills of material, and controlled design documentation.\nThe Engineering Designer/Drafter will work closely with design engineers, systems engineers, drafters, technicians, vendors, and field personnel to support hardware from early concept through fabrication, installation, checkout, test, sustainment, and configuration-controlled release. The role requires strong Autodesk Inventor capability, disciplined model management, practical mechanical judgment, and the ability to produce and review engineering documentation to applicable drafting and GD&T standards.\nThe Engineering Designer/Drafter will help ensure that CAD models, drawings, bills of material, configuration records, engineering changes, and associated technical data are structured, traceable, and maintained in a manner that supports lifecycle visibility from concept development through fabrication, installation, test, sustainment, and future configuration reuse.\nThis team supports multiple U.S. Navy research and development facilities associated with high-priority weapon system development programs. These facilities are one-of-a-kind and provide capabilities not commonly available elsewhere in the Department of Defense. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where design maturity, documentation quality, manufacturability, configuration discipline, and schedule execution are all mission-critical.\nKey Responsibilities:\n3D CAD Modeling and Mechanical Design Support\nDevelop fully parametric 3D solid models, assemblies, subassemblies, and component models in Autodesk Inventor based on sketches, redlines, field measurements, legacy drawings, vendor data, and design-engineer direction.\nTranslate conceptual design intent into practical mechanical geometry that supports fabrication, assembly, installation, inspection, maintenance, and future configuration reuse.\nBuild and maintain Inventor assemblies using sound modeling practices, including appropriate constraints, part relationships, feature organization, model-tree discipline, and assembly-level design intent.\nSupport design engineers during concept development by identifying modeling challenges, clearance issues, tolerance concerns, fabrication constraints, and potential fit, form, or function risks early in the design cycle.\nRevise and refine existing models to support design optimization, hardware changes, field modifications, tolerance adjustments, material substitutions, and configuration updates.\nMaintain model integrity throughout iterative design cycles, ensuring changes are traceable, controlled, and consistent with approved engineering direction.\nEngineering Drawings and Product Definition\nCreate and support the development of 2D engineering drawings derived from 3D CAD models using Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD.\nDefine appropriate drawing views, section cuts, detail views, notes, dimensions, tolerances, parts lists, and bill-of-material structures needed to clearly communicate the design.\nWork with drafters and engineers to ensure drawings accurately reflect design intent, manufacturing requirements, inspection needs, installation constraints, and configuration-control expectations.\nReview drawing packages for completeness, internal consistency, title block accuracy, revision history, BOM correctness, and alignment with the approved CAD model.\nApply GD&T principles consistent with ASME Y14.5, including datum selection, feature control frames, material condition modifiers, tolerance zones, and functional tolerance stack considerations.\nSupport compliance with applicable ASME drawing practices, including drawing format, line types, symbols, notes, views, and documentation conventions.\nHelp ensure released drawings are suitable for procurement, fabrication, inspection, assembly, installation, and long-term sustainment.\nPLM, Digital Thread, and Digital Twin Support\nSupport the program’s transition toward a PLM-enabled Digital Twin / Digital Thread by helping maintain authoritative, configuration-controlled digital product data.\nEnsure CAD models, drawings, bills of material, part metadata, revision histories, engineering change records, and supporting technical data are complete, accurate, and traceable within the applicable PDM/PLM environment.\nAssist engineering teams in structuring mechanical design data so that it can support downstream fabrication, inspection, installation, test planning, configuration management, sustainment, and future digital-twin use cases.\nSupport model-based and data-centric engineering practices by maintaining consistency between 3D CAD models, released drawings, BOMs, interface documentation, and as-built/as-installed configuration records.\nParticipate in efforts to improve CAD/PLM workflows, naming conventions, metadata standards, part classification, document relationships, lifecycle-state management, and digital-thread traceability.\nHelp identify and resolve gaps between the physical hardware configuration and the controlled digital baseline, including redlines, field changes, as-built conditions, and configuration discrepancies.\nSupport the development of a reliable digital product baseline that improves lifecycle visibility, configuration awareness, and reuse of proven design data across future program efforts.\nConfiguration Management and CAD Data Control\nMaintain organized CAD files, drawings, models, BOMs, and supporting documentation within Autodesk Vault or other PDM/PLM systems.\nSupport engineering change order, drawing release, revision-control, and redline-incorporation processes.\nEnsure CAD models, drawings, BOMs, and released documentation remain synchronized throughout iterative design cycles.\nAssist in maintaining internal CAD standards, drawing templates, model organization practices, metadata conventions, and documentation best practices.\nParticipate in design reviews, drawing reviews, configuration-control reviews, and cross-functional technical meetings.\nSupport disciplined technical-data management to ensure design products remain usable, searchable, traceable, and suitable for future program needs.\nFabrication, Installation, and Field Support\nSupport prototype, fabrication, assembly, installation, and production-readiness activities by providing accurate CAD data, drawings, fit-check support, and technical clarification.\nWork with engineers, technicians, machinists, fabricators, vendors, and field personnel to resolve design documentation issues discovered during fabrication, installation, or checkout.\nSupport field measurements, hardware walkdowns, as-built updates, redline incorporation, and physical-to-digital configuration reconciliation.\nAssist with practical mechanical problem-solving when hardware, drawings, field conditions, or installation constraints do not fully align.\nTravel periodically to customer, vendor, fabrication, or test-site locations to support hardware execution and fielded-system needs.\n Required Qualifications:\nAssociate Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, Drafting Technology, Industrial Design, Manufacturing Technology, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent practical experience may be considered.\nAt least (5) years of hands-on mechanical CAD experience using Autodesk Inventor in a manufacturing, test-system, industrial, aerospace, defense, or product-development environment.\nDemonstrated ability to create and modify mechanical parts, assemblies, and production-level engineering drawings.\nWorking knowledge of GD&T and engineering drawing practices.\nExperience supporting design changes, drawing revisions, BOM updates, and configuration-controlled documentation.\nAbility to interpret sketches, redlines, vendor drawings, legacy drawings, field measurements, and verbal engineering direction.\nExperience working within a structured CAD data-management environment, such as Autodesk Vault, PDM, PLM, or similar configuration-controlled systems.\nStrong attention to detail and commitment to drawing accuracy, model integrity, documentation quality, and configuration discipline.\nAbility to work effectively with engineers, drafters, technicians, vendors, fabricators, and field personnel.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S government security clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a U.S government security clearance.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nAdvanced Autodesk Inventor experience, including large assemblies, model configurations, derived parts, iParts/iAssemblies, frame generator, sheet metal, routed systems, or other advanced modeling features.\nExperience with Autodesk Vault, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, or other CAD/PDM/PLM tools.\nStrong working knowledge of ASME Y14.5 GD&T practices and ASME Y14-series drawing standards.\nExperience supporting Digital Twin, Digital Thread, Model-Based Definition, Model-Based Systems Engineering, or PLM-enabled product lifecycle initiatives.\nFamiliarity with PDM/PLM concepts, including lifecycle states, item masters, BOM management, revision control, engineering change workflows, part metadata, and digital-thread traceability.\nExperience supporting defense, aerospace, Navy, R&D, test facility, industrial equipment, launch systems, pressure systems, structural hardware, or electromechanical integration.\nExperience developing drawings for machined parts, weldments, sheet metal, brackets, fixtures, harness-support hardware, equipment racks, mechanical interfaces, or facility-integrated hardware.\nExperience supporting fabrication shops, machine shops, assembly teams, installation teams, or field-test operations.\nFamiliarity with engineering change processes, configuration management, controlled technical documentation, as-built records, and fielded-hardware configuration reconciliation.\nSoft Skills and Work Style:\nHighly detail-oriented with a strong commitment to drawing accuracy, CAD model quality, technical-data integrity, and documentation completeness.\nEffective communicator capable of working across engineering, drafting, manufacturing, field-support, and program-management teams.\nSelf-directed and able to manage multiple concurrent design tasks in a fast-paced, schedule-driven environment.\nCollaborative team player who actively contributes to continuous improvement, design discipline, and configuration-control maturity.\nComfortable working through ambiguity, incomplete source data, field redlines, and evolving design requirements.\nPractical mechanical judgment with the ability to recognize when a design, drawing, or model may create fabrication, assembly, installation, or sustainment challenges.\nWork Environment and Travel:\nThis position is based in Houston, TX, with periodic travel to field sites, customer facilities, fabrication vendors, and test locations. Travel is expected to be approximately 25% and is typically planned in advance.\nThe role includes office-based CAD and documentation work as well as hands-on support in industrial, laboratory, fabrication, and outdoor test environments.\nThe candidate must be comfortable supporting hardware across the lifecycle, from concept and design documentation through fabrication, installation, test, sustainment, and configuration update.\nCompensation Details:\n$100,00.00The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. 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