Supervisor - Design-Drafting

Make your mark at the world's largest HVAC company

Why You'll Love Working for Daikin:

• We're a group who operates with a people-centered mindset, believing in the unlimited potential of each employee, with a goal of driving our company to its fullest potential.

• Our goal is to "Perfect the Air". We do this through cutting edge innovation & sustainability efforts while meeting the HVAC needs of thousands of customers - expanding over 160 countries!

• Our culture is unrivaled. Daikin operates under 8 Core Values which are embedded into every aspect of our business. It's through these values that we continuously strive to build a place where everyone can be authentic, feel valued and heard, and have a sense of purpose and belonging.

Daikin Applied is seeking a fulltime Drafting-Design Supervisor to support our team in Staunton, VA. In this role, you will be responsible for supervising the product and design drafting staff to effectively produce models, drawings, and bills of materials needed by Manufacturing to build products. This includes newly designed equipment, special products and the maintenance of existing products. Establishes policies and procedures within the department. Originates and develops ideas to design the form of manufactured products by performing the following duties.

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

A Day in the Life:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Designs and redesigns safe and technically sound products that meet the design requirements.

• Estimates resource requirements and coordinate with Engineering Manager and Program Management to maintain compliance with planned headcount, budgets, and schedules.

• Provide scope and work breakdown structure expertise, direction, and coordination with Engineering Manager and Program Management to maintain compliance with project scopes and schedules.

• Provide CAD/Configurator/PDM expertise, direction, and coordination with IT for system capabilities and hardware requirements in various documentation environments.

• Issues accurate and complete engineering documentation for the generation of engineering and manufacturing database and fabrication of parts in the factories.

• Completes special assignments or projects in a timely manner giving consideration to quality manufacturability, functionality, serviceability and cost.

• Selects, trains, motivates and evaluates a competent direct reporting staff assuring optimum use of individual and collective capabilities

• Manage CAD resource allocations and meet Project deliverables to fulfill Product Development objectives and schedules.

• Ensures Drafting Group conformance with New Product Introduction, Value Analysis and Value Engineer, and ISO documentation.

• Establishes, monitors and implements consistent design documentation practices. Ensure Drafting Group establishes and delivers consistent drawing documentation practices (format and content) as well as consistent bill of material structures.

Qualifications

• 2 Year / associate degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school.

• 10 Related experience and/or training

• Mastery of SolidWorks and exposure to other CAD software

• Experience with Configurator/PDM software

• Strong Communication skills - Written and verbal

• Experience with Excel - moderate to high level (preferred)

• Oracle experience a plus