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I need a full time mechanical design engineer that either has, or is willing to get, a Tx PE license and knows how to use AutoCad/Solidworks. If you know anyone that might want to get out of urban areas and/or a corporate environment, let me know.
We design steel clamps to seal live piping systems. Our clamps are in pretty much EVERY refinery, chemical plant, power plant, paper mill, and food processing facility you might be able to name, and even others you can't name.
Our clients are the people that have the maintenance contracts for these facilities. We never set foot in them. All our work comes in via email/fax and goes out the same way. We do not build any of them. We send them to various independent fabrication shops at the direction of our clients. Once completed, they are shipped to our clients by the shops and then installed by our clients. Once designed, our only involvement is to answer questions about the designs, which occasionally includes discussing them with the end user's engineers or fielding questions from the shops.
It is not super difficult work if you played with (or still play with) LEGO as a kid. We use basic shapes to form the geometry of the clamps: bar stock, plates, pipes, and bolts. Simple clamps are made from plate and machined. More complicated clamps are made from all the above and must be custom fabricated. Very little of what we do is conducive to CNC milling. Because of the potential safety issues related to various types of leaks, we provide 24 hr on call design service. Once I get paged, I am expected to respond in 15-20 minutes max. At which point, I will have to stop whatever else I might be doing and get the design done ASAP. So some weekends I never get a call, and other weekends I might get several calls.
Our office is very informal. It is just me, Dad, one other person that is a drafting technician, and a fat cat. None of us smoke (I'm allergic to it).
Attached are a few examples of some clamps we've done.
We design steel clamps to seal live piping systems. Our clamps are in pretty much EVERY refinery, chemical plant, power plant, paper mill, and food processing facility you might be able to name, and even others you can't name.
Our clients are the people that have the maintenance contracts for these facilities. We never set foot in them. All our work comes in via email/fax and goes out the same way. We do not build any of them. We send them to various independent fabrication shops at the direction of our clients. Once completed, they are shipped to our clients by the shops and then installed by our clients. Once designed, our only involvement is to answer questions about the designs, which occasionally includes discussing them with the end user's engineers or fielding questions from the shops.
It is not super difficult work if you played with (or still play with) LEGO as a kid. We use basic shapes to form the geometry of the clamps: bar stock, plates, pipes, and bolts. Simple clamps are made from plate and machined. More complicated clamps are made from all the above and must be custom fabricated. Very little of what we do is conducive to CNC milling. Because of the potential safety issues related to various types of leaks, we provide 24 hr on call design service. Once I get paged, I am expected to respond in 15-20 minutes max. At which point, I will have to stop whatever else I might be doing and get the design done ASAP. So some weekends I never get a call, and other weekends I might get several calls.
Our office is very informal. It is just me, Dad, one other person that is a drafting technician, and a fat cat. None of us smoke (I'm allergic to it).
Attached are a few examples of some clamps we've done.