Southern States, LLC
Designer I - Electro-Mechanical
PSD - Hampton, GA - Full Time
Job Summary:
Designers are primarily responsible for actively driving and managing the development of
mechanical general arrangement, part, and assembly drawing packages for high-voltage
switchgear and power switching devices. Coordinating with sales, manufacturing, and quality
teams as the key technical advisor and product advocate, the Designer I must be able to identify
and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to ensure complete customer satisfaction
through all stages of the engineering process. The Designer I must be able to establish and
maintain strong relationships throughout the engineering cycle.
Responsibilities Primary:
Qualifications Required:
Preferred:
Designers are primarily responsible for actively driving and managing the development of
mechanical general arrangement, part, and assembly drawing packages for high-voltage
switchgear and power switching devices. Coordinating with sales, manufacturing, and quality
teams as the key technical advisor and product advocate, the Designer I must be able to identify
and provide reliable solutions for all technical issues to ensure complete customer satisfaction
through all stages of the engineering process. The Designer I must be able to establish and
maintain strong relationships throughout the engineering cycle.
Responsibilities Primary:
- Consistently apply basic drafting and design fundamentals and practices to promptly produce high-quality part, assembly, and general arrangement drawing sets pertaining to high voltage switchgear and power switching devices.
- Adhere to ANSI, IEEE, ASTM, ASCE, AWS, CSA, and other organizational standards.
- Retain expert level of product knowledge and its application.
- Coordinate with sales, vendors, customers, and other Southern States divisions to ensure order fulfillment is satisfactory.
- Troubleshoot and resolve fabrication, assembly, and field installation difficulties that is consistent with Southern States’ mission, values, and financial objectives, in a timely manner.
- Issue formal documentation descriptively detailing engineering changes in accordance with Southern States engineering standard practices and procedures
- Produce ongoing status reports for active orders.
- Maintain accurate records pertaining to target accounts, opportunities, quotes, projects, contacts, and correspondences within company approved databases.
- Identify customer needs and engineering opportunities for future growth.
- Travel to project sites to aide in sales support, startup, integration, and training services as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required:
- Education: Associate's degree in applied science with a concentration in Computer Aided
- Drafting and Design (CADD), equivalent, or five years’ related experience
- Demonstrated AutoCAD experience
- Basic SolidWorks experience
- Applied Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word) experience
- Strong fundamental drafting and design understanding
- Proficient written and oral communication skills
- Motivated with the ability to perform in a team environment
- Punctual, business-casual attire, and well-groomed
- Available to travel <10%
Preferred:
- AutoCAD Electrical or SolidWorks Electrical experience
- High-voltage switchgear drafting and design experience
- Steel fabrication, galvanizing, and welding design experience
- Strength of materials knowledge is a plus
- Project management experience is beneficial
- Hands-on construction, assembly, factory, or mechanic experience
- Statics calculation, such as bending moments, shear, compression, and tension, is a plus
- Visual Basics, Business Central, PowerPoint, and SharePoint applied knowledge
- Basic electrical and electronics control wiring and schematics experience is a plus
