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The Opportunity

There is a version of this job where you spend your days redlining other people’s work and waiting for design reviews that never move fast enough. This is not that job.

A growing industrial manufacturer is looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer who owns their work end-to-end — from model to manufacturing-ready drawing to the shop floor and back. You will work in SolidWorks every day, manage your own files in PDM, and produce documentation that people can actually build from. If you take personal pride in drawing quality, hate ambiguous tolerances, and have strong opinions about how sheet metal should be designed for the press brake, keep reading.

This is a remote position with direct involvement in real product development. The company manufactures industrial power equipment for critical infrastructure applications — meaningful work, built in the USA.

What You Will Do

You will create and maintain SolidWorks models and detailed drawings for parts, assemblies, and installation configurations — parts, sub-assemblies, weldments, enclosures, frames, and mounting schemes.

You will manage CAD files and released documentation inside SolidWorks PDM. That means revision control, check-in and check-out discipline, ECO/ECN support, and BOM handling. Clean vaults matter here.

You will generate and maintain BOMs and drawing packages for procurement and production, and keep them accurate through the product lifecycle.

You will support manufacturing with clarifications, redlines, and continuous improvement updates — working directly with winding, assembly, and quality teams to resolve fit and function issues in the field.

You will participate in design reviews and troubleshoot problems: fitment, tolerance stack-up, assembly sequence, and service access. You will coordinate with vendors and fabricators to confirm manufacturability and correct drawing interpretation.

What You Bring

You have strong, recent SolidWorks experience — parts, assemblies, and configurations — and you know the software well enough that PDM is second nature, not something you have to think about.

You produce manufacturing-ready drawings. That means proper datum structure, appropriate GD&T callouts (position, flatness, perpendicularity), weld symbols, hardware callouts, and notes that leave nothing open to interpretation on the shop floor.

You understand sheet metal — bend allowances, flat patterns, cutouts, formed features, and PEM hardware. You know what designs cost the fabricator time, and you design around it.

You are comfortable with fabricated assemblies: weldments, brackets, frames, enclosures, and mounting schemes for industrial equipment.

You have a DFM/DFA mindset. Designs that are elegant on screen but painful to build are unacceptable to you as well.

You work directly with manufacturing, quality, and engineering to resolve issues, and you document changes properly. Change control discipline is not optional here.

You have a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or an Associate’s degree in Mechanical Design, Drafting, or Engineering Technology with strong relevant experience. Typical target is 3 to 8 or more years in mechanical design and detailing for fabricated products — but strong early-career candidates with exceptional SolidWorks and drawing quality will be considered.

Differentiators That Will Make You Stand Out

Experience with ERP or MRP systems — particularly building and maintaining BOMs inside a manufacturing ERP — is a meaningful differentiator for this role.

Mechanical packaging experience with electrical equipment — enclosures, bus structures, cable routing, grounding schemes, and ventilation — is highly valued and directly applicable to the product line.

Familiarity with the mechanical constraints of power equipment — clearances, mounting, lifting provisions, shipping bracing, and airflow management — translates immediately in this environment.

A basic working understanding of three-phase power concepts, enough to support layout and integration decisions alongside the electrical engineering team, is a plus.

Exposure to PLM or ERP change workflows, part numbering standards, or document control in structured engineering environments rounds out a strong candidate profile.

Why This Role

Mechanical design engineers who are genuinely strong in SolidWorks PDM, sheet metal, and fabricated assemblies — and who also have any exposure to electrical equipment packaging — are harder to find than most hiring managers expect. If that combination describes you, this role offers real ownership, a product line that matters, and a company that is growing in one of the most active sectors in electrical infrastructure.

Remote. Real product. Real ownership.

Placed by Foster Conner International

Foster Conner International is a boutique executive search firm specializing exclusively in director-level and above placements within electrical infrastructure and power equipment manufacturing — transformer OEMs, switchgear, substations, e-houses, and data center power. We have worked in this niche for over two decades and represent both candidates and clients with discretion.

To be considered for this position, contact us at fosterconner.com.