Active Group are now recruiting for the position CAD Mechanical Designer.

This position is based in Cowra NSW, reporting to the Design Manager. The successful candidate will play a key role within the business to achieve mid & long-term R&D; next gen product releases while providing day to day design support to various business as usual responsibilities.

The business has been experiencing sustainable stable growth over the past 5 years with strong foundations now in place to support significant production scale up.

We aim to deliver leading by design & valued agricultural products to farmers across Australia with an appetite to export in years to come. You will more than likely have spent some of your career within an agricultural or mobile equipment manufacturing business and now looking for your next career position to showcase your skills.

Ultimately, we will be assessing your transferable career experiences and engineering skills along with your personable demeanor & solutions focused attitude during the recruitment process; to be a high achiever in this position it is all about supporting our team to achieve results, beyond even our own current ambitions! What is truly possible?

Your main responsibilities will include:

- Research & Development activities from concept to release to market as part of the R&D; team; predominately Agricultural Products.
- Complete CAD design/drafting using ‘Inventor’ to meet production design changes or incorporate customer design requests.
- Analysing Cost of Goods. The numbers do not lie – drive out waste, improve GP, increase productivity output & business scale.




- Working collaboratively with a team to transform initial concepts into engineered solutions.
- Being prepared to roll up your sleeves and work as part of a small team to ensure we kick our goals out of the park!

To be considered for this role you will ideally:

- Hold formal engineering or mechanical design qualifications.
- Be experienced in industry-standard CAD software such as Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, Fusion or similar
- Be proficient in generating high quality engineering design and documentation for manufacture/production.
- Have experience implementing detailed 3D CAD models for manufacture of new products and enhancements to existing ones.
- Have refined communication skills to be able to consult with internal & external stakeholders.
- Hold a genuine interest to learn the history of the family-owned business, the sales process & production workflow to ensure you have a complete understanding of our achievements to date.
- Have an ability to work under pressure and resilient to juggle competing priorities.

As a person you will:

- Be analytical and pedantic about the details while maintaining a big picture approach
- Be a disciplined individual who has a ‘can do’ solutions-based business approach
- Have exceptional business acumen and an out of the box, blue sky thinker by nature
- Have a cooperative teamwork style with well-honed conflict resolution skills

Keen and would like to learn more; check out our website www.agpl.com.au and about Cowra NSW https://visitcowra.com.au/

Confidential enquires can be made by phoning Tamara James, HR @ Active Group on 0408 461 236 or connect via LinkedIn.

📌 Mechanical Engineer - CAD Designer - Agricultural Sector (Cowra)
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