Lead Designer – CAD

Role Overview

• Lead design activities for oilfield subsurface components, systems, and controls equipment
• Ensure designs meet company standards and engineering competence requirements
• Coordinate design teams, establish drafting processes, and develop standardized templates, drawings, specifications, and Bills of Materials
• Generate mechanical designs from engineering specifications and verify designs against manufacturing and assembly practices
• Follow Design Process Management (DPM) processes and ensure compliance with drawing standards
• Define and manage design deliverables to meet contractual and third‑party requirements
• Interpret engineering requirements and define dimensions and tolerances
• Secure and coordinate design resources in collaboration with engineers
• Identify, assess, and mitigate hazards while ensuring designs meet HSE requirements
• Create layout, detail, and assembly designs addressing safety, environmental, and structural considerations
• Drive continuous improvement through risk reduction, cost reduction, and performance enhancement initiatives
• Create work packs, review drawings, develop test procedures, and lead small design teams
• Produce layout, detail, fabrication, and assembly drawings in accordance with ASME Y14.5 standards
• Support design verification activities, including tolerance analysis and design reviews
• Ensure all design documentation is correctly archived within electronic document management systems
• Apply design‑for‑manufacture principles for machining, welding, and fabrication processes

Requirements

• Hold a BSc, HNC, or HND in Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent vocational qualification with significant relevant experience
• Be conscientious, flexible, versatile, and determined
• Communicate assertively and positively
• Be fluent in English (additional local languages desirable)
• Work effectively within teams and adapt to changing work demands
• Have demonstrable experience using modern 2D/3D CAD tools and drafting standards
• Be familiar with materials, welding, heat treatment, and elastomers
• Understand relevant industry standards, codes, and design methodologies
• Be proficient with design and documentation software, including PDM systems
• Exposure to Six Sigma, Mathcad, or similar engineering tools is desirable

Tech Stack

• Assembly

Benefits

• Work–life balance and wellbeing programs
• Comprehensive private medical care
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Competitive financial programs
• Additional voluntary or elective benefits