Electrical CAD Designer
Revere Control Systems - Birmingham
Work at Revere Control Systems
Overview
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Overview
Description
This position is responsible for efficiently designing, generating, and maintaining project drawings in a timely manner meeting or exceeding project specifications and budget requirements. As the CAD Designer, you will coordinate with sales, engineering, and production to accurately document components of projects, including necessary information on layout & wiring, field connections, material lists, and installation details.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Use AutoCAD to design electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for municipal and industrial purposes.
- Use AutoCAD and ACADE packages for the completion of design packages from conceptual data.
- Design panel schematics and layouts from project specifications and proposals.
- Investigate and document proper installation procedures for components.
- Preform design calculations for fuse sizing, transformer sizing, branch circuit sizing, heat/cooling requirements and SCCR.
- Review design packages for conformance with P&ID diagrams.
- Convert panel ideas onto relevant title block format to be used as production type drawings.
- Direct and/or perform activities to ensure that manufacturing, construction, installation, and operational testing conform to functional specifications and customer requirements.
- Create fabrication detail drawings to be sent to a metal fabricator for custom enclosures and related accessories.
- Revise drawings for re-submittal or shipping prints and provide laminated drawings, if necessary, to be placed in panels before shipping.
- Responsible for creating PDF files of every drawing that we create or revise to be stored on the network.
- Coordinate activities with other departments and work groups as needed.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Experience, Skills, and Educational Requirements
- Tools include EPlan, ACAD, and ACADE. Minimum of two (2) years educational and/or work experience with AutoCAD preferred; or adequate AutoCAD training from a school with genuine desire to be trained; or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with electrical schematics required.
- Skilled in how to scale drawing layouts for production purposes.
- Basic computer literacy - Microsoft Office, e-mail.
- Desire for accuracy and consistency mandatory; should also have a desire to learn and improve.
- Knowledge of basic drafting principles.
- Candidate should be able to assist in designing electrical equipment and components.
- Ability and desire to work in a hands-on environment and travel up to 15%
- US Citizenship
Competencies
- Detail-Oriented
- Trainable
- Initiative
- Problem Solving
- Critical Judgment
- Excellent oral and communication Skills
About Us
Bob Adams founded Revere in 1980 with two goals:
- Leverage automation to make the world a better place
- Serve people around him by creating opportunities for good people to have good jobs doing good work
He set out to build a company with a uniquely service-oriented mindset. His vision was
clear: a place where employees flourished, innovation thrived, and customers were
delighted. As we’ve grown over the years, that initial mandate to serve has remained the
cornerstone of our culture.
Revere was acquired by SJE in 2024. Since 1975, SJE Rhombus has grown to become a
leading manufacturer of reliable trouble-free liquid level controls for the water, wastewater,
and sewage industries throughout the United States and Canada, as well as into global
markets. For over 40 years, SJE Rhombus has been committed to providing engineering and
manufacturing excellence to our customers. Our engineering expertise and broad range of
core products uniquely positions the company to deliver the reliability and performance our
customers require to solve their control solutions challenges.