Design Engineer

Cutting Edge Design I Collaborative Team I Work with Major OEMs | Grow Your Design Skills

Drewco in Franksville, WI, is hiring a Design Engineer to work on unique, custom-tooling projects that require creativity, collaboration, and mechanical thinking. You can expect to develop your skills quickly in a hands-on, supportive engineering environment and move into taking on one-of-a-kind, interesting projects.

*Easy access off I-94, so great opportunity for anyone in Racine, Kenosha, or Southern Milwaukee Counties

What You’ll Do

• Design workholding and custom tooling in SolidWorks

• Work directly with customers to understand requirements

• Create 3D models, assemblies, layouts, and detailed component drawings

• Calculate dimensions, clearances, and tolerances (GD&T) and create BOMs for manufacturing

• Collaborate with engineering, the shop floor, and sales

• Review your own work and assist in checking others’

• Manage projects from concept through release

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• A commitment to quality, precision, and continuous improvement

• A self-motivated attitude with the ability to learn independently and work through challenging problems

• Natural mechanical intuition, ideally supported by hands-on manufacturing or shop experience

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (minimum two-year technical degree considered)

• 2+ years of mechanical design experience in a 3D modeling application

• CAD proficiency required, SolidWorks preferred.

• Experience detailing components.

• Prior mechanical component or assembly design

• Comfort spending most of your day on a computer, modeling and refining designs.

Preferred: fixturing/workholding, machining, or shop-floor experience

Benefits:

Drewco provides a competitive pay and benefits package, including flexible start times, health insurance, 401K, profit sharing, and a relaxed, friendly, productive environment.

Why Drewco?

At Drewco, we create one-of-a-kind workholding and tooling solutions for leading manufacturers across automotive, agriculture, mining, defense, and gear industries. We value collaboration, hands-on problem-solving, and engineers who take ownership of their work. Here, your designs come to life on real shop floors, you collaborate directly with customers and management, and your ideas make a tangible impact every day.

We Make it Easy

Founded in 1901, MRA is a nonprofit employer association that serves more than 4,000 employers, covering more than one million employees.

As one of the largest employer associations in the nation, MRA helps its member organizations thrive by offering the most comprehensive assortment of HR services, information, education, and resources to help build successful workplaces and a powerful workforce.

We partner with these companies working directly with their HR department and leadership to hire their talent. We are a direct line to the company, not an agency recruiter.