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This role combines precise cost estimating, technical sales support, and hands-on drafting using specialized CAD software (such as cadwork) to develop schematics, layouts, and fabrication details for customer projects.\nJoin Freres Engineered Wood at the forefront of the mass timber revolution. You’ll contribute to sustainable, high-impact projects using our patented Mass Ply technology, collaborate with industry leaders and academic partners, help shape emerging standards, and grow your expertise in renewable construction solutions that support both rural communities and healthy forests.\n\nESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\n\nTechnical Sales & Application Engineering\nProvide expert technical and engineering information on Mass Ply products by analyzing customer needs, project specifications, and architectural/structural drawings.\nOffer solutions that align company mass timber products with customer requirements, including feasibility assessments and value-engineering recommendations.\nBuild and maintain relationships with key clients, architects, engineers, and contractors through technical consultations, on-site visits, and clear communication.\nCommunicate customer feedback and application trends to support future product development.\nCost Estimating & Project Technical Leadership\nWork with leading Architects and Engineers to prepare detailed, accurate cost estimates by thoroughly reviewing blueprints, architectural/structural plans, specifications, and related documents.\nProvide essential Value Engineering by proposing optimizations in design/materials based on Freres’ processes, and identify risks or constraints related to budget, timeline, and manufacturability.\nOversee project aspects from sales inception through design validation, fabrication, shipment, and customer payment.\nDrafting & Design Development\nUse specialized timber CAD software (e.g., Cadwork or equivalent) to develop detailed schematics, 3D models, shop drawings, panel layouts, connection details, and fabrication files for Mass Ply Panels, beams, and related components.\nCreate and modify technical drawings from customer-provided plans, ensuring compliance with manufacturing capabilities, tolerances, and standards (e.g., ANSI/APA PRG-320 for mass timber).\nGenerate CNC-ready outputs, material take-offs, and assembly drawings to support precise prefabrication and efficient production.\nCollaborate with design teams and clients to refine concepts into buildable, cost-effective solutions.\n\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS\n\nThe role requires the ability to perform the following essential physical functions, with or without reasonable accommodation:\n\nStanding, Walking, Sitting, Lifting, Carrying, Balancing, Stooping, Reaching, Handling, Feeling, Communicating, Acuity-Far, Acuity-Near, Depth Perception, and Field of Vision.\nMay require a combination of sitting, standing, and walking, some for longer periods\n\nMust be able to work in an office environment as well as a shop and plant environment as job duties require. May be exposed to loud operating machinery, cold and hot temperatures, chemicals, and vapors.\n\nProlonged periods of standing and walking during site visits, presentations, and training sessions.\nOccasional travel to client sites, project locations, or industry events.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree - Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering\nExperience with Microsoft Office 365\nEffective presentation, analytical, communications and customer relationship skills\nMust have a valid Driver's License with satisfactory driving record\nPreferred:\nKnowledge of or interest in mass timber, engineered wood products, sustainable construction, or related fields.\nExperience in technical sales, consulting, or application engineering within construction, architecture, or building materials industries.\n\nBENEFITS\n\nWe offer a highly competitive wage, PTO, health, dental, and life insurance, Short-term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Section 125, 401K, Discretionary Quarterly Profit-Sharing Bonus Program, and Holiday Pay.\nEmployee discounts as well as for vendors such as Columbia Sportswear, Carhartt, etc\n\nQualifications\n\nOUR COMPANY\n\nFreres Engineered Wood, formerly known as Freres Lumber Co., Inc. was established in 1922 in Lyons, Oregon as a family-owned and operated wood products manufacturing business. Three generations of family management have led the Company’s veneer and plywood manufacturing facilities to sustain in the Santiam Canyon and we are committed to operating for another 100+ years.\nWe operate six processing plants, including a small log veneer plant, large log veneer plant, veneer drying facility, plywood plant and cogeneration facility. We are dedicated to reinvesting in our modern manufacturing facilities, providing high-quality wood products, and providing family wage jobs within our communities. We specialize in creating the highest quality wood products, from raw log to finished products, including: hog fuel, bark fines, chips, shavings, specialty veneer, grade lumber, high-quality sheathing grade plywood and even electricity.\nOur passion for continuous improvement aligned with our innovative approach to manufacturing has led us to become the sole producer and developer of a unique, patented wood product, the Mass Ply Panel. 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