CAD Designer

We are recruiting for a CAD Rail Designer to join our team based in Andover.

As a CAD Rail Designer you will be working within a team of designers who design bespoke stairlift rails, from surveys obtained by sales advisers and distributors. The role offers the ability to work from home after an initial training period, although attendance within the office will be required on an adhoc basis.

The successful candidate will design bespoke Stairlifts based on surveys received from site.

You will be required to provide production drawings to tight deadlines for rail fabrication of curved Stairlifts across three different sites. This role requires a high level of concentration, communication, speed, accuracy and problem-solving skills to take a customer order from survey to manufacture and installation.

Ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate the ability to work within tight time constraints and have experience of 3D CAD systems; ideally, SolidWorks. Consideration will also be given, to individuals who have recently qualified from further education.

The role offers a 37 hour working week, working the late shift:

13:15 to 23.00 Monday to Thursday, this includes a 15% shift allowance

Key Responsibilities:

• Correctly interpret customer surveys, documents and drawings
• Accurately convert digital and manual surveys into 3D staircases
• Identify missing/conflicting information with customer surveys and/or documents
• Initiate approval process, supplying customer and order entry with completed drawings and appropriate communication.
• Ensuring compliance of all curved stairlifts in terms of product, manufacturing and regulatory limitations
• Interpret customer requirements and resolve all queries to ensure timely completion
• Identify improvements in digital surveys and drawings
• Ensuring customers, distributors and visitors have the appropriate level of understanding of rail design
• Supporting development of the team by sharing knowledge and skills

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• No formal qualifications required, with previous work experience
• Relevant further education qualification, without previous work experience

Company Information:

Stannah is a British family owned company, who provide elevators, escalators and moving walkways and manufacture stairlifts and platform lifts, we offer repairs and servicing 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The family is now in their fifth generation and play a hands-on role in running the business, ensuring the family ethos and values are maintained. Our salaries, benefits packages and supportive working environments attract the best people who strive to offer quality and dedication within their work.

We are a company who are pioneers of forward thinking, we never forget that vital to our success are the amazing people who work for us and the commitment we have to our customers. We have carefully selected the following benefits which complement our employees’ lifestyles.

Benefits Include:

• Competitive Salary, paid on a monthly basis
• Profit Share Bonus Scheme - a proportion of Company earnings shared equally between all employees and paid out at regular intervals
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days
• Pension Scheme, matched contribution/salary sacrifice
• SimplyHealth Cash Plan which allows you to claim towards health costs such as dental and optical as well as physiotherapy, chiropody and flu vaccinations
• Life Assurance Scheme
• Long Service award scheme, with additional holiday benefit
• Company Benefits Discount and Rewards Scheme which includes shop discounts, hotel discounts, days out and more
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company Sick Pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity provision