CAD Technician - Lippert

Who We Are

We are the leading supplier of components to the recreational vehicle and residential housing industries, as well as adjacent industries including bus, cargo and equestrian trailer, marine, and heavy truck. With over 65 facilities located throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom, our more than 14,000 team members work together to bring innovative product solutions to market every day.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert Components, Everyone Matters. We are striving to make lives better through meaningful relationships with our co-workers, our customers, and our communities. LCI team members feel a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our many team members. We measure success by how we touch the lives of people inside and outside our walls.

What You will Get:

1. A company culture where everyone matters
2. Healthcare + Dental + Vision + 401k with Employer match
3. Career development and mentoring
4. Tuition Reimbursement
5. Annual flu immunization
6. Holiday, personal and vacation days
7. Local and national discounts
8. Wellness offerings

Summary/Objective

As a CAD Technician, you will be responsible for creating/modifying new and existing RV frame and component blueprints to meet evolving customer and industry specifications. The individual will be responsible for interpreting, evaluating, and upholding detailed engineering guidelines in their own work as well as the work of their team members.

Essential Functions

1. Utilize SolidWorks 3D software to create/modify drawings and assemblies
2. Plans, organizes, and coordinates workload to achieve objectives
3. Ensures compliance with approved design standards to provide quality design, safety, constructability, reliable operation, construction economy and operating convenience
4. Reviews and checks calculations, design models, drawings, and design documents for quality, accuracy, neatness, functionality as observed in finished product audits

Competencies

1. Effective verbal and written communication skills
2. Strong organization and time management skills
3. Quality focused, Detail oriented, Results driven
4. Ability to follow multi-step processes
5. Ability to multi-task and rapidly transition between projects as priorities change
6. Ability to self-manage
7. Ability to work independently and with others
8. Decision making confidence, demonstrating honesty integrity and candor 

Supervisory Responsibility

This role does not have any supervisory responsibility upon hiring.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle, feel, or reach. This position is not very active when it comes to movement and requires a lot of typing and sitting in a chair.

1. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather that the whole hand as in handling.
2. Required to have close acuity to perform activities such as: viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts.
3. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive information through oral communication.
   

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position and the expected work hours are 40 hours per week. Hours may vary dependent upon workload.

Travel

No travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience

1. CAD software experience required
2. SolidWorks experience a plus
3. PDM software experience a plus

Work Authorization/Security Clearance 

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law.  This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters.  All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member.  Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members.  Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership.  Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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