Chart Industries logo

CAD Designer

Chart Industries

New Prague, MNJob$61–85K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.

You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.

Watch jobs like this.

Don't just apply. Show up ready.

Olive works from this exact posting.

At a glance

Compensation
$61–85K/yr
Location
New Prague, MN
Work Authorization
Not specified

Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.

Job overview

Chart Industries’ CAD Designer supports the project engineering group in developing cryogenic equipment designs. The role creates customer and manufacturing drawings, models, assemblies, and bills of materials while coordinating with sales, manufacturing, and other departments. It also supports production, design reviews, engineering changes, testing, and documentation. The position requires SolidWorks proficiency and a technical degree in Mechanical Drafting and Design; SolidWorks certification is beneficial.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SolidWorks3D Mechanical DesignDesign for ManufacturingQuality PrinciplesSolidWorks Piping and RoutingMicrosoft OfficeInterpersonal SkillsLifting 50 Pounds

Qualifications

Mechanical Drafting and Design DegreeSolidWorks Certification3+ Years Work Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Parental Leave
401(k) Match

Full job description

CAD Designer

Location: New Prague, MN, United States, 56071

Company: Chart Industries

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

At Chart, we design and build some of the world’s most advanced cryogenic equipment—that’s how our “ Cooler By Design® ” tagline was born. But it’s not just our technology that’s cool. It’s our people. We solve complex problems as a team, making us truly Cooler Together . And with the addition of Howden to the Chart family, we’re Stronger Together , too. Our customers don’t simply bring us equipment specs—they bring us challenges. That’s where you come in. From concept and design to installation and commissioning, you’ll help create solutions that support a wide range of industries and applications.

  • Launching rockets into space

  • Delivering Nexus of Clean™ solutions for clean water, clean power, clean food, and clean industrials

  • Powering the carbonation in your favorite fast-food beverage

  • Making nitro coffee and even nitro ice cream possible

Want to see our impact in action? Explore Chart City : https://chartcity.chartindustries.com/ . We’re looking for bright, driven talent excited to build a career in an evolving, high‑growth industry. Along with competitive compensation and meaningful work, Chart offers development programs designed to grow future leaders. That could be you. If you’re passionate about design engineering and think a career at Chart sounds pretty cool, let’s talk.

Chart's project engineering group provides efficient solutions to the development of processes and products, ranging from small components to large scale plant designs, associated with cryogenic applications. The VIP Designer will ensure that customer needs are met by following lean practices in VIP designs including customer drawings, manufacturing drawings, and bills of materials.

What Will You Do?

 Assist sales as needed with quotes, drawings, site surveys, and sketches

 Create and maintain accurate 3D models and assemblies to reflect the mechanical design

and customer requirements

 Mechanical focal point in a team environment for piping layouts and design

 Ability to work with offsite design resources, and manage workload

 Manage day-to-day activity in ERP system including BOM’s, internal routers,

documentation, and other responsibilities

 Work closely with manufacturing teams, as well as other associated departments

 Participate in design review meetings with other departments as necessary

 Review / Approve / Process ECR’s, NCR, TDD’s as needed

 Provide support for special testing and fixtures

 Work daily with the shop floor on projects as they move through production

 Provide QA support for special documentation as required

 Post release customer changes/hold from customer service to production

 Post sales solutions and documentation as required

 Good interpersonal skills are a must

 Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by management

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

  • Lift up to 50 pounds.

  • Sitting, standing, stooping, bending, other related tasks in an office and industrial setting.

Your Experience Should Be...

Education:

 Technical degree in Mechanical Drafting and Design

 Certification in Solidworks is beneficial

Experience:

 Three to five years’ work experience

 Proficient with three-dimensional mechanical design software, Solidworks required

 Strong understanding of design for manufacturing and quality principles

 Experience with SolidWorks piping and routing module is a plus

 General good computer skills including experience using Microsoft Office products

Our Benefits Package...

Pay Range: $60,700 - $84,500 annually

This position is eligible for overtime.

Paid Time Off (PTO)

  • Medical, Dental and Vision insurance

  • Employer contributions to an HSA account

  • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

  • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage

  • Basic life insurance with the option to purchase supplemental individual, spouse and dependent child coverage

  • Up to two weeks of paid family leave

  • 401k retirement savings plan including a company match

Chart Industries is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicants because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law. Additionally, it is and shall continue to be our policy to provide promotion and advancement opportunities in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Chart complies with applicable local, state, and federal statutes governing “equal employment opportunity” and nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.

How this job compares

Set against the 538 open Mechanical Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$61–85K/yr
  • US median$77–108K/yr193 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $73K, is 21% below the US median midpoint ($92K) — in the lowest quarter of Mechanical Designer salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 22 open Mechanical Designer jobs in Minnesota and 538 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Mechanical Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (447 postings).
Education
46 of the 538 open Mechanical Designer jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

Prepare for this role

You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.