Design Technician Ii Engineering

Ignite your career at Builders FirstSource, America's largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. The #1 name in our industry, we help make the dream of home ownership more achievable every day. At BFS, you'll be equipped with all the tools, training, and resources you need, and you'll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons.
Position Summary:
This individual is responsible for reading plans and creating designs and placement drawings prepared directly from information submitted by the customer. Works alongside an outside salesman.
What You'll Do:

• Develops layout and design drawings from architectural drawings or sketches provided to the company.
• Makes phone calls to building designers or professionals to obtain or clarify information shown on blue line drawings.
• Generate placement plans, identifying the location of the individual designs.
• May obtain information pertaining to products supplied by the company that have been field modified or damaged. The information is summarized and given to a professional engineer to evaluate and complete repair drawings when required.
• Analyzes technical data and reports to determine if design meets functional and performance specifications.
• Confers with technical and other engineering personnel and prepares design modifications as required.
• Analyzes plans and diagrams, or observes and makes notes on material processing, to determine material and material processing specifications, or specifications for construction activities.
• Writes technical descriptions specifying material qualities and properties.
• Draws rough sketches or arranges for finished drawings or photographs to illustrate specified materials or assembly sequence.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum one year related experience.
• Experience with Mitek Structure, MS Word, and MS Excel, is required.

What You Can Bring to the Team:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common construction plans and documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Work Environment / Physical Activity:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and sit, and occasionally required to walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• The employee is regularly required to use close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less) and color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is subject to quiet conditions, such as those in a library or private office.

Builders FirstSource provides competitive benefits that include:
Medical, Dental & Vision Plans; Critical Care, Accident, & Hospital insurance; Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts; 401(k) with match; Vacation & Sick Time; Paid Holidays; Life & Accident insurance, Short & Long Term Disability; Employee Discounts.
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Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
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Other details

• Job Family PROMFG
• Pay Type Hourly

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