SolidWorks Assistant Manager

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Assistant Manager - SolidWorks is a working leader who divides time approximately equally between technical project support and personnel management. The role supports lead designers on active packaged-equipment projects while supervising, coaching, and developing design/drafting personnel. The position provides hands-on SolidWorks expertise by creating and checking models and drawings, helping coordinate project design execution, reinforcing TAS standards and common architectures, and supporting engineering leadership in delivering safe, compliant, high-quality work on schedule and within budget.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Support and Technical Execution (approximately 50%)

• Support lead designers on moderate to complex packaged-equipment projects from turnover through release by assisting with design coordination, technical problem-solving, workload planning, and the quality and timeliness of assigned deliverables.

• Interpret P&IDs, process flow diagrams, specifications, site and equipment layouts, piping plans, general arrangement drawings, bills of materials, and customer design inputs.

• Create, modify, check, and approve reliable 3D SolidWorks models, assemblies, mating interfaces, library components, exploded views, layouts, section views, dimensions, callouts, and accurate BOMs.

• Design and modify structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, and controls sub-assemblies while considering manufacturing constraints, installation access, maintenance clearances, and applicable codes and recognized standards.

• Create and check project models and drawings as assigned, including assemblies, layouts, section views, details, dimensions, callouts, and BOMs; verify accuracy, completeness, manufacturability, and compliance before release.

• Assist Lead Designers with project drafting plans, labor estimates, production schedules, deliverable lists, resource needs, and progress tracking; communicate risks, scope changes, and forecast impacts to the Lead Designer and Engineering Leadership.

• Attend bid, kickoff/turnover, customer, vendor, project, and production meetings as requested to support the Lead Designer and coordinate design interfaces with Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and other stakeholders.

• Identify and recommend value-engineered alternatives and practical design solutions to the Lead Designer without compromising safety, quality, maintainability, or customer requirements.

Personnel Leadership and Department Support (approximately 50%)

• Provide day-to-day supervision, work assignment, prioritization, and workload balancing for assigned designers and drafters; monitor task completion, quality, and schedule performance.

• Participate in hiring, onboarding, training, performance evaluations, coaching, recognition, and performance remediation in partnership with Engineering Leadership and Human Resources.

• Establish clear expectations and provide frequent feedback; mentor employees in SolidWorks, design practices, checking discipline, project execution, communication, and professional development.

• Support manpower planning, utilization forecasting, project staffing, ETC/EAC updates, KPI tracking, and reporting of individual and team performance, including efficiency and accuracy.

• Develop, improve, publish, and enforce design/drafting standards, checking procedures, templates, common architectures, library practices, documentation requirements, and configuration-management controls.

• Help investigate and implement new technologies, hardware, software, and streamlined procedures in coordination with management, IT, and vendors; organize technical training as needed.

• Serve as an escalation point for technical and personnel issues, resolving routine matters and elevating significant risks or decisions to Engineering Leadership.

• Reinforce a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused culture and build effective working relationships within the department and across TAS.

• Travel to customer, vendor, or project sites as required and perform other responsibilities assigned by TAS.

*Other TAS duties assigned.

JOB SKILLS:

• Advanced, hands-on SolidWorks capability and the ability to independently deliver production-ready models and drawings with limited direction.

• Proven capability supporting Lead Designers and project teams in packaged equipment, industrial plant, HVAC, piping, mechanical, and structural design and layout.

• Broad understanding of structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls equipment interfaces, including operation, maintenance, access, and clearance constraints.

• Advanced ability to read and interpret P&IDs and related engineering documents.

• Working knowledge of codes and standards applicable to TAS equipment, including NEC, IEC, ASME, ANSI, AISC, AWS, UMC, OSHA, building codes, and other project-specific requirements.

• Strong project-support skills, including labor estimating, task scheduling, resource coordination, progress tracking, and change-impact communication.

• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, develop, and hold employees accountable while maintaining constructive working relationships.

• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and customer communication skills; strong technical writing and documentation ability.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and related business software.

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

• Post-secondary degree or certificate in drafting, design, engineering technology, or a related technical field preferred.

• Direct industry experience may substitute for formal education.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 8+ years of relevant mechanical, structural, piping, electrical, controls, or packaged-equipment design experience, including substantial hands-on SolidWorks experience.

• Experience supporting Lead Designers on complex projects through hands-on creation and checking of production models and drawings, including participation in formal design and model reviews.

• At least 2 years of experience leading, supervising, mentoring, or coordinating the work of design/drafting personnel.

• Experience producing manufacturing/assembly-level drawings, BOMs, and controlled design documentation.

• Ability to perform intermediate mathematical tasks and preliminary design calculations for engineer review.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Data center and modular packaged-equipment design experience.

• Experience with SolidWorks PDM/EPDM and configuration or document control.

• Experience with Infor LN or a comparable ERP system.

• Additional CAD/BIM proficiency, including AutoCAD, Revit, and Autodesk Construction Cloud or equivalent.

• Experience developing drafting standards, procedures, training materials, KPIs, managing libraries and checking workflows.

• Experience with preliminary calculations or simulations such as load lists, flow models, and piping or structural stress analysis for engineer review.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The position requires spending approximately 80% to 95% of the workday at a desk using a computer. The employee must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently. The position requires use of the fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color vision, depth perception, and a field of vision sufficient to prepare and analyze data, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading. The incumbent will be subject to indoor environmental conditions.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.

TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer’s facilities.

TAS’ fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.

With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at: www.tas.com.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. “smoking” and “tobacco or nicotine products” includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

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