Employer: Novurania of America
Email Address: john@novurania.com
Position Title: Design Engineer
Compensation/Rate: Competitive pay and benefits
Job Description: Marine Designer/Engineer For Custom Yacht Tender Manufacturer
Novurania of America is looking for a Designer/Engineer with system design experience to design and oversee construction of custom yacht tenders that meet customer needs and regulatory specifications. Novurania is a yacht tender manufacturer located in Vero Beach, Florida. As a leading manufacturer of luxury yacht tenders, innovation is apparent in every model of our comprehensive line of boats.
We specialize in high end custom yacht tenders for the luxury yacht clientele, we also manufacture for the recreational and commercial markets.
With the growth of the business we need to find driven individuals with boat design experience. You will meet with customers and our manufacturing team to determine feasibility of the project. Once the project is approved you will be involved from the start to the delivery, updating and communicating changes to customer and manufacturing.
Primary Job Duties:
• Work closely with the sales and customers to develop new, exciting product. • Find new solutions by challenging the status quo. • Communicate your ideas clearly and sell them to other team members. • Model your ideas in Rhino to further develop your concepts. • Refine your ideas based on team feedback. • Collaborate with sales, customers, and production to maintain design intent. • Analyze proposal sketches, specifications, related data and drawings to determine vessel arrangements. • Produce preliminary computer models based on customer specifications and company data for initial design approval from manufacturing team before customer approval. • Develop computer models, design all elements including structure, system designs, auxiliary systems, and components to integrate the basic design features and the desired characteristics for a complete project. • Ensure design follows engineering principles, company quality standards, customer performance requirements, and regulatory specifications. • Evaluate design changes and release revised drawings, as needed. • Follow company procedures to properly document and notify Production of revisions. • Maintain continuous communication between Engineering and Production Supervisors, troubleshooting problems related to design. • Inspect and evaluate projects, as required. • Anticipate design data required by Production to ensure on-time execution of the Production Schedule. • Create CNC cut files.
Qualifications:
• Proficiency in the use of Rhino. Proficiency in the use of other CAD tools will be considered an asset. • Professional certification and/or degree in a relevant discipline. • Strong attention to detail, spatial acuity, and analytical skill. • 2 – 5 years relevant experience in vessel design/drafting. Familiarity with marine design regulations (e.g. ABYC, USCG) [preferred]. • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office. • Previous experience in a product development preferred. • Consideration will be given to experienced designers from other industries however marine experience is preferred.
Marine Designer/Engineer For Custom Yacht Tender Manufacturer • Skilled in sketching and concept visualization helpful. • A firm understanding of engineering and manufacturing constraints.
• Skilled in sophisticated surface modeling. We use Rhino. • Bring a new perspective to our team. • Takes a conceptual design and translates it into buildable components depicted on 2-D/3-D drawings. • Interface with departmental personnel to obtain details of equipment and materials requirements and / or select and source components and hardware. • Make basic computations to determine quantities for BOMs, weight of materials, and requirements for structural design. • Maintain spreadsheet design databases such as weight studies, electrical load lists. • Liaison with the production crew during fiberglass fabrication and rigging. • Minimum 2 years’ experience creating or modifying drawings to support the marine design and modification projects using 2D/3D AutoCAD and Rhino 3D is required. • Experience creating production level detailed drawings. • Experience developing detailed Bill of Materials and calculating weights is highly desirable. • Familiarity with USN, USCG, ABS, SOLAS and CFR a plus. • Displayed proficiency in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel a plus. • Demonstrate strong commitment to proactively investigate and resolve detail technical design problems independently and with support from Novurania team. • Strong listening, verbal and written communication skills that facilitate ability to reach out, ask questions and complete tasks on schedule is needed. • Physically able to conduct ship checks including working in confined spaces, climbing ladders and lifting up to 25 pounds is required. • Confident action oriented, self-starter with a sense of integrity and actively contributes to providing high caliber service and meeting client needs on time.
Job Type: Full Time
• Work Hours: This position normal hours are 8:00am – 5:00pm. Novurania reserves the right to adjust shifts and times as business needs arise. • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
WHY APPLY:
• Opportunity to take your career to a different level • Work for a company that values people, performance and attention to detail • Join a team that is passionate about making a difference in the world • See your efforts and visions unfold • Competitive benefits: Health, Dental, Vision • Paid Holidays • Paid Time Off • Job Stability / Satisfaction • Incentive Bonus Plan
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
