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Design Engineer

Butler America

Grand Prairie, TXContract$60–71/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$60–71/hr
Location
Grand Prairie, TX
Schedule
Contract
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Design Engineer designs major components, portions of functional systems, and technically advanced products, and develops or improves products to support manufacturing. The role prepares preliminary layouts and design proposals, evaluates manufacturing and material factors, coordinates with affected organizations, and checks drawings for accuracy and compliance. It also identifies design deficiencies and recommends revisions or improvements.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Creo DesignWindchill PLM/PDMMechanical StructuresConcept DevelopmentDesign Review PreparationFinished 3D ModelingGD&TComplex Mechanical/Electrical ConceptsModel-Based Definition

Qualifications

3+ Years Creo Experience2+ Years Windchill PLM/PDM Experience1+ Year Concept Development Experience1+ Year Design Review Preparation Experience4+ Years 3D Modeling Experience2+ Years GD&T Experience2+ Years Complex Mechanical/Electrical Concepts Experience

Benefits

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

Full job description

Design Engineer Location: Grand Prairie, TX Job ID: #73374 Pay Range: $60-71 12 months Summary

  • Designs major components, or major portions of a functional system, or technically advanced prototype, promotional or specific products.

  • Develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations.

  • Develops basic data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal. Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace ability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost.

  • Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development.

  • Makes layouts of assemblies and details parts of devices, mechanisms, structures, and products.

  • Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.

  • Identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies, and recommends revisions and/or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers.

Required Experience:

  • Candidate must have at least 3 years experience with Creo design.

  • Candidate must have at least 2 years experience with Windchill PLM/PDM

  • Mechanical primary and secondary structures

  • At least 1 year of experience with Concept development

  • At least 1 year of experience with Design review content preparation

  • Candidate must have at least 4 years experience with Create Finished 3D Models

  • Candidate must have at least 2 years experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

  • Candidate must have at least 2 years experience with Complex Mechanical/Electrical Concepts

Desired Experience: -Model-Based Definition (MBD) Benefits provided: 401K, medical, dental, and vision, sick time as applicable to state law Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer. Butler evaluates applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The Butler America Aerospace, LLC. EEO Policy Statement and “Know Your Rights” Poster is available here: Applicant and Employee Notices (https://butler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BAA-Website.HR-Documents.2024.03142024-new.pdf) . Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Department at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 2,787 open Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$60–71/hr
  • US median$40–55/hr95 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $65.50/hr, is 38% above the US median midpoint ($48/hr) — in the top quarter of Design Engineer hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 306 open Design Engineer jobs in Texas and 2,787 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,260 postings).
Education
1,929 of the 2,787 open Design Engineer jobs (69%) 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.

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