Job Description
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Job Title: Remote Senior Mechanical/Electrical Engineer – BESS (100% Work From Home)
Location: Remote from Latin America
Position Type: Full-time
Salary: $20-25 USD/hour depending on experience (approx $3,200 - 4,000 USD/month)
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Mountain Time or Eastern Time
Job Overview
The Mechanical Drafter / CAD Technician is responsible for creating and maintaining accurate mechanical drawings, models, and documentation to support fabrication, assembly, and installation of customer systems. This role translates engineering designs into complete, production-ready documentation while ensuring compliance with company drafting standards and configuration control requirements. The CAD Technician plays a critical role in ensuring design intent is correctly communicated to manufacturing, fabrication, and operations teams.
- Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain 3D CAD models and detailed 2D drawings from engineer developed concepts
- Develop fabrication and assembly drawings, weld details, and installation details
- Apply company drafting standards, layer conventions, and title block requirements
- Ensure drawings are complete, accurate, and manufacturable
- Maintain drawing revision control and documentation accuracy
- Support drawing release and change management processes
- Update models and drawings per approved engineering changes
- Ensure BOMs and part metadata are accurate and consistent with drawings
- Support fabrication and assembly teams with drawing clarifications
- Incorporate manufacturing feedback into drawing improvements
- Work closely with mechanical, structural, and electrical engineers to ensure design intent is properly documented
- Follow drawing quality standards and checklist procedures
- Key Deliverables
- Fabrication and assembly drawings
- Installation and layout drawings
- Updated CAD models and part libraries
- Drawing revisions and change documentation
- Accurate BOMs and drawing metadata
- Decision-Making Authority
- Can independently approve:
- Drafting methods and detailing approaches consistent with company standards
- Minor drawing clarifications that do not change design intent
- Must escalate for approval:
- Any changes affecting form, fit, or function
- Discrepancies between drawings and engineering intent
- Issues impacting safety, compliance, or installation feasibility
- Key Cross-Functional Interactions
- Mechanical Engineers – Design intent, calculations, and technical direction
- Structural Engineers – Structural detailing and interface coordination
- Electrical Engineers – Penetrations, mounting, and equipment interfaces
- Success Metrics
- Accuracy and completeness of drawings
- On-time release of production documentation
- Reduction in manufacturing rework due to drawing errors
- Responsiveness to engineering and production support needs
- Compliance with drafting standards and configuration control
- Qualifications, Skills and Key Competencies:
- 7+years of experience (Senior)
- 2+ years of industry Experience (BESS)
- Understanding and experience working in:
- Energy storage systems (BESS)
- Power generation/generator systems
- Data center infrastructure
- Electrical power distribution
- Cooling systems for energy equipment
Application Disclaimer: Please Read Before Proceeding
To ensure a fair and efficient hiring process, all applications must meet the mandatory requirements listed in the job description.
Voice/Video Recording is REQUIRED
Your application CANNOT be considered without a voice or video recording. It must be at least 30 seconds long and in English. Submissions in any other language or missing a recording will be automatically disqualified.
Mandatory Knockout Questions
Each application includes knockout questions designed to verify minimum qualifications required by the client. If you answer "NO" to any of these, you will be immediately disqualified from the hiring process for not having the experience requested for the role. Please note that the citizenship question is also a knockout if you answer "YES" as we are only able to hire Latin American talent based in Latin America.
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