Drafting Steward

Overview

We are a technology company that aims to help people return home safely from their worksites by building smart safety systems. We have a hyper focused safety culture that puts our customers and our employee safety first. As a company, we aim for stable and sustained business growth and this strategy has supported our growth. We hire carefully to ensure our growth strategy as well as culture fit and value each hire tremendously. We hugely value learning and continuous improvement and believe strongly in furthering the careers of all our employees. We recognize that our careers can take us in different directions, and we value retention by recognizing and even encouraging this diverse career growth. Being a global organization, we are well positioned to have varied opportunities within the organization to support growth in different directions. Our compensation and benefits packages are competitive.

MSA is an organization that respects boundaries, encourages people to unplug and recharge, and prioritizes the well-being of everyone on the team, all while sustaining reasonable growth and remaining committed to our meaningful mission.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed CAD part and assembly drawings that support manufacturing, sourcing and approvals documentation needs in accordance with industry and MSA drawing standards. Apply knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), manufacturing methods, and materials to appropriately and comprehensively layout drawing views and specify dimensions, tolerances, fits, surface finishes, and annotations.
• Create exploded view and line art drawings that support customer facing documentation needs including user instructions, parts lists, and repair and service instructions.
• Utilize engineering sketches, specifications and any other data to support the product life cycle for both mechanical and electrical disciplines. Incorporate acceptable tolerances and dimensions as determined for specific capacities, operating requirements, and material selection.
• Prepare drawings using computer aided design tools, of systems, parts or equipment from sketches or marked up prints.
• Recognize discrepancies or errors and seek out alternative solutions for obstacles encountered.
• Consistently meet work deadlines while producing high quality work results and products.
• Document work progress to internal stakeholders to completion using standard process such as RFEA tickets.
• Facilitate new engineering documentation requests, new releases, and engineering change requests in a timely manner in accordance with MSA documentation control processes.

Qualifications

Special knowledge, skills and abilities required:

• 2D/3D Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Proven ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Attention to detail is a must
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills critical
• Ability to prioritize workload based on input from internal customer deadlines
• Proven ability to work well in teams and collaborate across diverse work groups
• Have the capacity to lead small projects to completion
• Associates degree or related two-year technical school degree with an emphasis on CAD

Preferred:

• Experience in drawing tolerances and tolerance stacking
• Experience in SolidWorks in creation of detailed drawings
• Experience in Pro/E is a plus
• Use of Office 365 and Teams