Design Technician II Design - Indirect

Builders FirstSource•West Point, VA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

This individual is responsible for reading plans and creating designs and placement drawings prepared directly from information submitted on a company order form. Completes CAD work while working alongside the design manager.

Requirements

Associate’s degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience with PrimeCad, MS Word, MS Excel, and AutoCAD is required.

Nice To Haves

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Responsibilities

Develops layout and design drawings from architectural drawings or sketches provided to the company.
Makes phone calls to building designers or professionals to obtain or clarify information shown on blue line drawings.
Generate placement plans, identifying the location of the individual designs.
May obtain information pertaining to products supplied by the company that have been field modified or damaged.
The information is summarized and given to a professional engineer to evaluate and complete repair drawings when required.
Analyzes technical data and reports to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
Confers with technical and other engineering personnel and prepares design modifications as required.
Analyzes plans and diagrams, or observes and makes notes on material processing, to determine material and material processing specifications, or specifications for construction activities.
Writes technical descriptions specifying material qualities and properties.
Draws rough sketches or arranges for finished drawings or photographs to illustrate specified materials or assembly sequence.
Other duties as assigned.