POSITION OVERVIEW:  

As a Senior Design Checker at our modular manufacturing company, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, quality, and compliance of our modular designs. You will work closely with our design and engineering teams to review and analyze modular construction plans, ensuring they meet industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal specifications. Your expertise will contribute to the seamless execution of projects, driving efficiency, and excellence in our modular construction processes.  

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Design Review:  Conduct comprehensive reviews of modular construction plans, including architectural, structural, electrical, and mechanical components, to verify accuracy, completeness, and compliance with building codes, standards, and project requirements
• Quality Assurance:  Implement rigorous quality control measures to identify potential design flaws, inconsistencies, and errors early in the design process. Collaborate with design and engineering teams to address and resolve issues promptly.
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay informed of relevant building codes, regulations, and industry standards to ensure all modular designs adhere to legal and safety requirements. Provide guidance and recommendations to ensure compliance throughout the design process.
• Technical Expertise: Utilize your expertise in modular construction principles, materials, and techniques to evaluate designs for structural integrity, functionality, and manufacturability. Offer insights and suggestions for optimizing designs for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Communication and Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, engineers, project managers, and manufacturing personnel, to facilitate effective communication and collaboration. Provide clear and constructive feedback to support continuous improvement in design processes and outcomes.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain detailed records of design reviews, modifications, and approvals. Generate reports summarizing findings, highlighting areas of concern, and recommending corrective actions as needed.
• Mentorship and Training: Serve as a mentor to junior design checkers, sharing knowledge, best practices, and insights to foster their professional development. Conduct training sessions to enhance the overall competency and proficiency of the design checking team.
• Examples of design review scope:
  • Reviews all designer drawings including layouts and section views ensuring accurate BOM’s, callouts, and dimensions
  • Reviews dimensions and ensures components are dimensioned adequately to minimize tolerance stack-ups
  • Performs non-technical drawing reviews for compliance to standards for borders, blocks, text, CAD standards, notes, call-outs, and view requirements to adequately depict the design intent
  • Verifies weld symbols and beam selections are appropriate for their service
  • Verifies voltages, wire sizes, and breaker sizes are appropriate for their service
  • Verifies equipment access, service, and egress are appropriate
• Any other responsibility as assigned by TAS

JOB SKILLS:  

• Advanced knowledge as a designer/checker in package/plant designs and layouts with broad knowledge of technical applications, maintenance, operation, and clearance constraints of structural, mechanical, controls, and electrical equipment systems
• Knowledgeable of codes typically applicable to TAS equipment including NEC, IEC, ASME, AISC, AWS, UMC, OSHA, and building codes etc.
• A self-starter and proficient designer/checker, with experience in mechanical, electrical, structural, and controls systems

EDUCATION & TRAINING:  

• High school diploma

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:  

• 12+ years of mechanical, structural, electrical, and controls design experience relevant to manufacture of TAS products
• Hands-on experience in design and drafting using 3D modeling software to include CAD, Solidworks, and Revit

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:  

• Proficient knowledge and experience of SolidWorks, Revit, Inventor, Catia, or Pro-E
• Experience in HVAC, piping design, or industrial plant design or related roles within the modular construction industry
• Associates Degree in a technical discipline or 3D/CAD design is a plus

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Position is at least 80% to 95% at a desk working with computer. Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.  Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions.  Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading.  The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.  

COMPANY OVERVIEW:  

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do!  When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered private company 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 implemented a non-smoking hiring policy effective January 1, 2012, under which Individuals considered for employment will need to pass a drug test which includes a nicotine panel.      

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.  

Applications and resumes will be kept on file for a limited time and the Company is under no duty or obligation to contact applicants if they are not selected for the job applied for or if other jobs become available in the future. Applicants that desire to apply for a job that becomes available at the Company in the future, should submit a new employment application or resume.  

TAS Energy Inc. guarantees equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.