Mechanical Designer (w/m/d) – Product Data Management & CAD Administration

• The overall model. You keep one model of the whole machine, with every component referenced into it at its position. That means maintaining the mounting positions, the skeleton geometry and the installation spaces, keeping the assembly loadable and current while your colleagues change parts underneath it, and checking against the interface documents whether every component stayed inside the space allocated to it. On the assembled model, clashes, tight clearances, impossible assembly sequences and missing service access all become visible while they can still be fixed in CAD rather than in the workshop. Whatever you find there, you raise it and stay with it until it has been decided.
• Product structure, naming and revisions. You own part numbers, product structure, naming convention, storage location and release state. You enforce the nomenclature, maintain purchased parts, and keep it unambiguous at any moment which revision is valid and which revision went into which build. Changes run through you: you record what changed, check what depends on it, and tell the people it affects.
• Designing at product level. Brackets, sheet metal, panels, frame parts, piping and cable routing, assembly fixtures, and the re-modelling of purchased parts — everything that arises at the top product level and does not call for specialist design work. This part of the job is real design work and takes up a noticeable share of the week.
• Manufacturing documentation. You produce the drawings and give them defensible tolerances, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, weld and surface specifications and material call-outs, and you maintain the bills of material that go with them. That holds for one-off parts from our own workshop as much as for series orders.
• Documentation and prepared models. The same data yields more than the manufacturing drawing: assembly instructions and exploded views for our own production, the basis for manuals, simplified CAD models that customers build into their own plant, and prepared models and renderings for design and marketing. Sometimes you supply the basis for these, sometimes the finished image.
• ERP maintenance. You create item masters and bills of material and keep them current, so that the engineering structure and the purchasing and inventory structure do not drift apart.
• Interface to suppliers and production. You assemble the manufacturing data packages and release them, through the ERP system or directly. Questions from manufacturers you handle together with technical purchasing; where a design decision sits behind one, you bring in the engineers responsible. Data coming back from suppliers, in STEP or native format, you bring into our structure.
• CAD administration. You manage users and permissions, look after licences and their renewal, versions and updates, templates, drawing frames and start parts, and the standard and purchased-part libraries. Together with the engineers you set the modelling and drawing conventions everyone works to, and you introduce new colleagues to them. Servers, network and backup sit with our system administration; you coordinate with them without carrying IT responsibility yourself.

• Flexible hours and 30 days of vacation. 
• Compensation aligned with startup standards, with room to grow as the company scales. 
• A team that's sharp, interdisciplinary, and doesn't take itself too seriously. 
• The chance to pioneer technology that actually helps the planet. 
• Ownership, responsibility, and a culture where learning from mistakes is expected. 
• A front-row seat as a deep-tech company scales. 
• Memes. Good ones. And lots of them.  

PS: We are a big fan of cover letters. They don't need to be long, but getting the general idea of who you are and what motivates you helps in the application selection. A portfolio of work you can share externally is also welcome.

We believe in science; we believe in facts. Climate change is speeding up more than ever and we need to do something about it. We are convinced that we need better technologies to overcome this tremendous challenge – or more precisely: this tremendous threat to humanity. We are on a mission to decarbonize the refrigeration industry and reduce its contribution of 7% to global greenhouse gas emissions. 

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We are material scientists, chemists, physicists, a lot of engineers as well as product and graphic designers. We are an agile team of bright minds with diverse and international backgrounds. We love hanging out together, we argue about new technologies, politics, the best sport, and food trends. Basically, we are human. 

MAGNOTHERM is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to all groups of people without regard to age, color, national origin, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.