Designer—Engineered Wood Products
Whitehall, Ohio Location
This Company strives to build strategic alliances with our builder customers in an effort to maximize their efficiency and profitability. We conduct our business in an ethical manner always concentrating on providing exceptional customer service and quality building materials at competitive prices. We are dedicated to identifying and solving customer problems through communication, market awareness and innovative thinking.
Full-time employees enjoy great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) with company matching contributions, paid vacation, paid holidays, short-term disability, product discounts and more.
Day-to-Day Role:
The EWP Designer is responsible for completing design work assigned by the Design Manager, and responsibilities will include:
- Reading and interpreting blueprints
- Ensure designs are accurate, optimized, and conforms to standards
- Request sealed engineering drawings and/or repair details and follow-up to ensure complete when necessary
- Generate EWP placement layouts for final construction
- Generate and provide accurate pricing for estimating purposes
- Provide job-site support, with the aid of sales department, when requested.
Required Skills
- General knowledge of construction industry.
- Knowledge of floor and roof truss design process
- Ability to read and interpret architectural and structural blueprints
- Ability to calculate tributary loads, concentrated loads, and load transfer through a building.
- Knowledge of current local codes associated with structural design.
- Good written and oral communication skills are required.
Required Experience and Education
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree preferably in construction or equivalent work experience in the building industry.
- Experience in EWP Design strongly preferred.
Contract Lumber is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.