About Key Technology

Key Technology in Walla Walla, WA is a worldwide leader in food processing technology. As a global industrial manufacturing company, our ongoing innovations provide increased control, continuous processing, sorting, automated inspection, specialized conveying, and grading and sizing, in processed fruits and vegetables, nuts, dried fruit, fresh-cut produce and more.

Why Work at Key?

Key Technology Inc. is a Duravant family company, dedicated to the fulfilment of our employees. Whether seeking career advancement, long term employment stability, or a mix, our leadership team is committed to each employee’s personal career goals. As we know our success is rooted with our employees, Key offers a competitive benefits package for all full-time employees, including the following:

• Medical coverage through your choice of a high deductible health plan or a PPO plan. All plans include prescription drug coverage
• Flexible spending accounts, when allowed by tax laws
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA), when allowed by tax laws. Our HSA includes a 2x match, up to $1,000 annually
• Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid life insurance and disability insurance, and options to purchase additional coverage
• Paid Maternity Leave
• Optional coverages include Long-term Care, Accident Insurance, and Critical Illness Insurance
• 401k plan with a 100% match on the first 3% of employee contributions, and 50% on the next 2% of contributions (4% match if you contribute 5% of pay)
• Educational Assistance reimbursement
• Accrued paid time off (PTO) – 3 weeks per year
• 10 paid holidays annually

Position Summary

As an Engineer Design Tech at Key, you will design, specify and test major systems, subsystems and components of process and conveying systems.

Wages for this position range from $23.00 to $26.00 depending upon experience.

Essential Responsibilities

• Reviews rough sketches, drawings, specifications, and other engineering data received from Design Engineers, Engineering Technicians, and/or Project Engineers
• Drafts detailed drawings of all necessary elements of a required design including but not limited to assemblies, sub-assemblies, weldments, Sheetmetal flat patterns, and installation drawings
• Computes weights of components, center of gravity, speed, and stroke using computer aided design tools
• Develops detailed Bills of Materials
• Works in cooperation with Sales Engineers, Customer Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing, and other Project Engineering personnel
• Works with frequent supervision (level I), infrequent supervision (level II), and limited supervision (level III)
• Must recognize areas of technical requirements that need the advice and/or attention of qualified personnel
• Other duties as assigned

Education and/or Experience

• Associate's degree (A. A.) in Mechanical Engineering Technology or equivalent from two-year college
• Minimum of two years CAD drafting experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Solidworks experience preferred

Employment with Key Technology is contingent upon successfully completing a pre-employment drug screen, criminal history, social security, and reference check.