Design Technician IV

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have 3D Printing Experience Nice To Have Tooling Experience Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing and field service operations. Utilizes computer-aided design equipment and/or graphic tools, such as CAD, CAM, CATIA, ProEngineer, Solidworx or Siemens NX Software. Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts, sketches to present design proposal. Coordinates design criteria with engineering, manufacturing, tooling, material, and planning group such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials, and contractual specifications.

TECHNICIAN SUPPORT CAREER STREAM

Provides technical support in areas such as production, operations, maintenance, safety, testing, process improvement or product development. Uses schematics, diagrams, written and verbal descriptions or defined plans to perform testing and troubleshooting on electronic or mechanical components, equipment or systems. Gathers, maintains, formats, compiles, and manipulates technical data using established formulae and procedures, and performs detailed mathematical calculations. For higher levels, may suggest and/or make improvements to optimize work processes.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy:

Trains, delegates and reviews the work of lower level employees and may be responsible for leading daily operations of a work team. Runs projects, including performing complex tests, interpreting data, developing key reports and providing updates to the broader team.

Organizational Impact:

Performs technical activities more complex in nature with larger impact. Work consists of technical tasks that are complex and complicated.

Innovation and Complexity:

Technical problems faced are general, and may require understanding of broader sets of issues and other job areas, but typically are not complex. May be responsible for working with supervisor to identify potential adjustments or enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Communication and Influence:

Communicates typically with internal contacts. Obtains and provides technical information on matters of significant importance to the job areas or project.

Leadership and Talent Management:

May act as a team lead and assistant to the supervisor / manager. May delegate tasks to other team members and be responsible for the review of work product. Does not have formal management responsibilities, but may provide input to management in this area.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Requires minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. Requires high school diploma or equivalent (United States), vocational or technical education or certification (all other countries).