Job Description
Title: Mechanical Designer & Drafter
Location: Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Shift: 1st Shift
Pay Rate: $65,000–$85,000 per year
Location: Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Shift: 1st Shift
Pay Rate: $65,000–$85,000 per year
Full Benefits
Sterling Engineering is hiring a Mechanical Designer & Drafter for a growing, internationally recognized manufacturer of specialized industrial machinery. This is an exciting opportunity to work on custom machine designs from concept through production. You'll join a collaborative team in a clean, modern facility where your ideas for design improvements, cost savings, and technology upgrades will be encouraged and valued. If you're looking for a position that offers hands-on engineering involvement, technical variety, and long-term career growth with a stable global organization, this is a great opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create sets of drawings of mechanical components using 3-D modeling per machine order
- Create mechanical bills of materials per machine order.
- Implement cost-saving initiatives and technology advancements to machine designs.
- Create technical documentation and user manuals.
- Assist sales department and production team with technical information and troubleshooting.
Qualifications:
- 3-5+ years of experience in mechanical drafting, design, or engineering-related roles
- Strong proficiency with 3D CAD design software (Inventor would be ideal)
- Experience creating manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and engineering documentation
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elk Grove Village, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $65,000–$85,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- 3D Designunmatched
- 3D Modelingunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Autodesk Inventorunmatched
- Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
- CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Softwareunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Illustrating Abilityunmatched
- Manufacturing Bill of Materials (mBOM)unmatched
- Mechanical Designunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Recruitingunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- User Documentationunmatched
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