Vitruvium | Mid–Senior | On-site, Warwick QLD | Hybrid or remote considered after six months

Vitruvium designs components and products for manufacture. Sheet metal, weldments, product development, and occasional in-house manufacturing. The work bridges design intent and shop floor reality, and the role requires a mechanical designer who operates at that intersection.

The Role

The designer owns the design phase of projects, taking projects from initial briefs, to final drawing packages. Briefs range from precise specifications and technical drawing packs to broad problem statements, and the designer’s role is to develop these into models and drawing packages that translate efficiently and completely to manufacture. Responsibilities include design decision-making within client intent, liaison with clients and suppliers, and production of the upstream decision-making, modelling, and high-level work that precedes hand-over to our drafting team.

Management of drafting output is a core function of the role. Our business is structured around the division between designing and drafting. This Mechanical Designer position sits on the designing side and is responsible for keeping the drafting team productive through considered modelling, clear direction of drafting outcomes, and disciplined review.

Project scope includes industrial equipment, custom fabrications, product development, and reverse engineering. A design for manufacturing mindset is expected from the start of modelling. Our design process treats the consideration of factors like material selection, fabrication methods, assembly sequence, and supplier capabilities, to be essential.

Requirements

• Minimum five years of mechanical design experience with documented drafting background. The role requires the combination of design judgement and documentation discipline, not one without the other.
• Demonstrated design-for-manufacturing capability and knowledeg across fabrication processes, particularly sheet metal, weldments, and machined components. An additional understanding of how design-for-manufacturing extends to design-for-profitability.
• Onshape experience preferred. SolidWorks experience is acceptable and transferable. Rhino familiarity is adjacent but useful.
• Proven capability directing offshore or remote drafting staff, including written specifications, structured review, and quality control.
• Comfortable making design decisions against broad specifications, and willingness to challenge specifications that are technically or commercially unsound.

Who This Role Is Not For

The role is unsuitable for designers who prefer to execute fully specified work without input or collaboration with clients. It is equally unsuitable for designers who have fixed ideas around best methods and are not open to adopting Vitruvium's systems and standards. The role requires sufficient experience to operate independently, and sufficient openness to integrate into an established team.

Conditions

On-site at Warwick, QLD for at least the first six months. This is non-negotiable: the systems, standards, and tacit knowledge that make the role work cannot be transferred remotely. Hybrid or remote arrangements are open for discussion after that period, subject to performance and operational needs.

Pay: $85,000.00 – $110,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Warwick QLD 4370: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Describe your experience liaising directly with clients, fabricators, and suppliers during a project. What kinds of decisions or coordination did you handle?
• Have you directed offshore or remote drafting staff? Briefly describe the structure.

Experience:

• Mechanical design: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Warwick QLD 4370