Truss Designer

Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company • Halstead, KS

1d • $60,000 - $80,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company is looking for a Truss Designer to ensure successful delivery and pick up of materials. Mill Creek Lumber & Supply Company has been in business since 1934 and is a strong, growing regional industry leader.

Requirements

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to read limited number of two and three syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, and the ability to see color.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) OR equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to type, handle or feel objects.
• Employee will reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel or crouch
• Employee must occasionally lift products weighing up to approximately 50 pounds.
• Specific vision and hearing abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, the ability to adjust focus and hear well enough to communicate with customers and co-workers.

Responsibilities

• Uses dedicated software to design truss systems for builders and end users and incorporates design to approve product lines sold by yard.
• Interacts with customers and sales staff.
• Reads and interprets blueprints.
• Uses software to capture truss geometry and incorporates structured requirements of truss.
• Produces written quotes.
• Reviews final design and release to shop.
• Uses CSD Accounting software to produce order.
• Assists in answering incoming calls.
• Assists customers in facility.
• Sizes beams on demand.
• Participates in other various duties or daily activities.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with the opportunity to work overtime
• A benefits package that includes company medical contribution towards the Health Savings Account
• Dental & Vision insurance
• Life insurance as well as short- & long-term disability
• All full-time employees are eligible the first of month following 30 days of employment
• A 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED