junior draugthsman - Durban, South Africa - E2E Staffing (PTY) LTD

Description

Reports to Engineering Manager

Job Purpose

To provide support, back-up and assistance to the product Design and Development, by producing detailed engineering drawings and designs when

required.

Duties and Responsibilities, but not limited to:

Design & Development:

To produce accurate 'production ready' drawings of products and help the Design & Development Department in its daily operations

• Gaining an understanding of the scope and requirements of each product and/or project.
• Calculating dimensions, weight limitations and requirements in products/materials.
• Creating detailed drawings/designs with computer-aided design (CAD) software.
• Preparing rough sketches and reviewing them along with the engineer and/or engineering team.
• Maintenance and development of drawing library
• Identifying potential operational issues and redesign products to improve functionality.
• Assisting in day-to-day department operations when necessary.
• Carrying out the drafting requirements for new or existing products/projects
• Preparing technical drawings and plans to be used in the production and installation of security products.
• Drafting plans and detailed drawings for the installation of products.

Communication:

To liaise and keep all relevant stakeholders updated and informed in terms of progress of the design drafts and drawings.

• Liaising with engineer/s and relevant stakeholders to gather product and structural
• requirements and designs.
• Providing ongoing feedback to stakeholders, ensuring they are continuously updated on the drafting of product designs.
• Clearly communicating the existence of any variations or amendments as and when they occur.

Compliance:

To ensure that all designs comply to the company's standards.

• Checking for each product's compliance requirements and quality standards.
• Ensuring drawings supplied are informative and not misleading.
• Assisting with obtaining customer approval on drawings.
• Coordinating revisions based on design changes.
• Reviewing rough sketches, drawings, specifications, and other engineering data to ensure that they conform to design concepts.

Documentation:

To accurately document the operation, features and maintenance of product designs. To ensure such documentation is securely stored but accessible to the relevant parties.

• Defining and documenting production methods step-by-step.
• Creating manuals that describe existing products' operation, features, installation methods and maintenance.
• Updating and maintaining drawing registers.

Behavioural Outputs

Contributing to Team Success

• Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of team goals;
• Facilitates team goal accomplishment;
• Listens and fully involves others in team decisions and actions;
• Values and uses individual differences and talents;
• Shares important or relevant information with the team;
• Adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines;
• Demonstrates personal commitment to the team;

Attention to Detail

• Accurately and carefully follows established procedures for completing tasks;
• Shows concern for all aspects of the job to ensure that the results are free from errors, omissions, and defects;
• Initiates action to correct problems or notifies others of issues as appropriate;
• Building Strategic Working Relationships
• Seeks opportunities to proactively build effective working relationships with other people;
• Probes for and provides information to clarify situations;
• Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand;
• Places higher priority on team or organizational goals than on own goals;
• Gains agreement from colleagues to support ideas or take team-orientated action;

Communication

• Clearly conveys information and ideas to colleagues;
• Interacts effectively with colleagues, employees and/or external parties to ensure a shared understanding is created;
• Ensures that all written information is clear and concise;

Planning and Organisation

• Effectively manages time to ensure that tasks are completed timeously and efficiently;
• Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments and adjusts priorities when appropriate;
• Makes preparation to ensure that work can be completed efficiently;
• Effectively allocates own time to complete work;
• Takes advantage of available resources to complete work efficiently;
• Determines project/assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks, identifying deadline dates, developing timelines and milestones to ensure timely completion;
• Uses time effectively and prevents distractions from interfering with work completion;

Follow-up

• Builds due dates into assignments and task delegations and communicates milestones and expected results;
• Schedules effective meetings to review progress and share information; gets feedback on results from those directly involved;
• Meets with management as and when required to review the results of scheduled projects and tasks;

Taking initiative

• Takes appropriate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation;
• Implements new ideas or potential solutions without prompting;
• Takes action that goes beyond job requirements in order to achieve objectives
• Takes action that goes beyond job requirements to achieve objectives.

Skills

• Matric
• Mechanical Engineering Diploma (All modules completed)
• Requiring P1 & P2 Training (Preferable)
• Proficient with Microsoft Office
• Experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software
• SolidWorks/AutoCAD (Preferable)
• Effectively communicate with internal/external parties.
• Ability to plan properly.
• English - Excellent (Verbal & Written) Communication
• This role encompasses both working in an office and the manufacturing facility / factory when necessary.