* Role Description: This position is responsible for interpreting customer's furniture concepts and specifications to design and draw products for manufacturability and meet customer requirements.
* Purpose Accountability: Embrace the Purpose of the organization and role model behaviors aligned to our Purpose and Guiding Principles.
* Responsibilities: (Include Safety and Environmental, Quality, and Job Specific Roles and Responsibilities)
• Read and interpret customer's design specifications
• Create and revise 3D models and 2D shop drawings and sketches for customer approval
• Collaborate with
Project Managers and assist in communications with customers,
designers,
purchasing, owners, and installers
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and manufacturing to best align design with production capabilities and platforms (e.g., VE, DFM)
• Assist other Design Engineers, as needed, to resolve design challenges or meet project timelines
• Ensure product design meets all customer performance and functional requirements, including conducting "as designed" testing or engineering calculations
• Research and specify decorative hardware, functional hardware and other unique materials or features
• Collaborate with product engineering and purchasing on sourcing purchased components (e.g., "or equal", obsolesces, or regulatory changes)
• Clearly identify locations of different finishes and/or materials on drawings
• Create stone drawings and other sourced products
• Have good working knowledge of brand standards by customer
• Understand key industry requirements: ADA, electrical codes, etc.
• Create common parts, blocks, details, models and share with Design Engineer Team
• Review own drawings for accuracy before releasing to Project Manager / customer and filing.
• Ensure product, as designed, can be easily field assembled and installed
• Review and provide feedback to factory on installation instructions
• Assist Project Managers with product testing
• Participate and share ideas to continuously improve the design engineering process
