Engineering Detailer

Overhead Door Corporation

The Role

Overview

Create BOMs, calculate door weight, and detail non‑standard orders.

Key Responsibilities

  • task prioritization
  • order processing
  • weight calculations
  • bills-of-material
  • tool development
  • detailing workflow

Tasks

Responsible for the support of customer orders of non-standard product, by providing timely and accurate manufacturing documentation: Bills-of-material and weight and counterbalance calculations. Prioritize and process Detailing tasks to enable on-time manufacturing of customer orders. Identify gaps and opportunities in Detailing processes, driving improvements to Detailing methods and tools to capture efficiency gains. -Using system tools, prioritize and manage the timely completion of incoming tasks. -Communicate with internal Customer Care, Manufacturing, and Finance teams to gather necessary information to process and release orders. -Interpret routine and complex customer quotes and orders. Apply custom order detailing and manufacturing instructions. -Perform door weight and spring counterbalance calculations. -Prepare bills-of-material within the ERP system. -Develop and improve tools and workflows to improve Detailing processes and efficiency.

Requirements

  • associate degree
  • excel
  • word
  • math
  • blueprints
  • prioritization

What You Bring

-Ability to prioritize and multi-task. Resourceful. -Associate degree with technical focus preferred, or equivalent work experience with demonstrated success. -Strong technical and math background. -Solid communicator. Comfortable with in-person, phone, and written communication. -Experience with Microsoft Excel and Word. -Able to interpret and understand technically oriented material, blueprints, and door configuration rules.

The Company

About Overhead Door Corporation

-Invented the upward-acting garage door and first electric opener by 1926, setting a high bar for innovation. -Produces solutions from residential garage doors to commercial sectional, rolling shutter, high-speed, fire-rated, and dock doors, tailored to sectors like manufacturing and logistics. -Operates five divisions (Access Systems, Genie openers, TODCO transport doors, Horton pedestrian systems, and Canadian Creative Door Services), spanning home to heavy-duty access needs. -Typical projects include equipping docks for warehouses, securing storefronts, automating hospital entrances, outfitting transportation fleets, and high-performance industrial installations. -Markets proprietary smart-home compatible opener systems like Genie’s Aladdin Connect and invented the first automatic sliding pedestrian door in 1954.

Sector Specialisms

Residential

Commercial

Institutional

Industrial

New Construction

Remodel Projects

Dock Equipment

Air Curtains

Bollards

Safety Gates

Automatic Entrance Doors

Sports Venues

Convention Centers

Manufacturing Facilities