Reports to Engineering Manager
Job Purpose
To provide support, back-up and assistance to the product Design and Development, by producing detailed engineering drawings and designs when
required.
Duties and Responsibilities, but not limited to:
Design & Development:
To produce accurate ‘production ready’ drawings of products and help the Design & Development Department in its daily operations
- Gaining an understanding of the scope and requirements of each product and/or project.
- Calculating dimensions, weight limitations and requirements in products/materials.
- Creating detailed drawings/designs with computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Preparing rough sketches and reviewing them along with the engineer and/or engineering team.
- Maintenance and development of drawing library
- Identifying potential operational issues and redesign products to improve functionality.
- Assisting in day-to-day department operations when necessary.
- Carrying out the drafting requirements for new or existing products/projects
- Preparing technical drawings and plans to be used in the production and installation of security products.
- Drafting plans and detailed drawings for the installation of products.
Communication:
To liaise and keep all relevant stakeholders updated and informed in terms of progress of the design drafts and drawings.
- Liaising with engineer/s and relevant stakeholders to gather product and structural
- requirements and designs.
- Providing ongoing feedback to stakeholders, ensuring they are continuously updated on the drafting of product designs.
- Clearly communicating the existence of any variations or amendments as and when they occur.
Compliance:
To ensure that all designs comply to the company’s standards.
- Checking for each product’s compliance requirements and quality standards.
- Ensuring drawings supplied are informative and not misleading.
- Assisting with obtaining customer approval on drawings.
- Coordinating revisions based on design changes.
- Reviewing rough sketches, drawings, specifications, and other engineering data to ensure that they conform to design concepts.
Documentation:
To accurately document the operation, features and maintenance of product designs. To ensure such documentation is securely stored but accessible to the relevant parties.
- Defining and documenting production methods step-by-step.
- Creating manuals that describe existing products’ operation, features, installation methods and maintenance.
- Updating and maintaining drawing registers.
Behavioural Outputs
Contributing to Team Success
- Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of team goals;
- Facilitates team goal accomplishment;
- Listens and fully involves others in team decisions and actions;
- Values and uses individual differences and talents;
- Shares important or relevant information with the team;
- Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines;
- Demonstrates personal commitment to the team;
Attention to Detail
- Accurately and carefully follows established procedures for completing tasks;
- Shows concern for all aspects of the job to ensure that the results are free from errors, omissions, and defects;
- Initiates action to correct problems or notifies others of issues as appropriate;
- Building Strategic Working Relationships
- Seeks opportunities to proactively build effective working relationships with other people;
- Probes for and provides information to clarify situations;
- Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand;
- Places higher priority on team or organizational goals than on own goals;
- Gains agreement from colleagues to support ideas or take team-orientated action;
Communication
- Clearly conveys information and ideas to colleagues;
- Interacts effectively with colleagues, employees and/or external parties to ensure a shared understanding is created;
- Ensures that all written information is clear and concise;
Planning and Organisation
- Effectively manages time to ensure that tasks are completed timeously and efficiently;
- Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments and adjusts priorities when appropriate;
- Makes preparation to ensure that work can be completed efficiently;
- Effectively allocates own time to complete work;
- Takes advantage of available resources to complete work efficiently;
- Determines project/assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks, identifying deadline dates, developing timelines and milestones to ensure timely completion;
- Uses time effectively and prevents distractions from interfering with work completion;
Follow-up
- Builds due dates into assignments and task delegations and communicates milestones and expected results;
- Schedules effective meetings to review progress and share information; gets feedback on results from those directly involved;
- Meets with management as and when required to review the results of scheduled projects and tasks;
Taking initiative
- Takes appropriate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation;
- Implements new ideas or potential solutions without prompting;
- Takes action that goes beyond job requirements in order to achieve objectives
- Takes action that goes beyond job requirements to achieve objectives.
Skills
- Matric
- Mechanical Engineering Diploma (All modules completed)
- Requiring P1 & P2 Training (Preferable)
- Proficient with Microsoft Office
- Experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software
- SolidWorks/AutoCAD (Preferable)
- Effectively communicate with internal/external parties.
- Ability to plan properly.
- English - Excellent (Verbal & Written) Communication
- This role encompasses both working in an office and the manufacturing facility / factory when necessary.
