CAD Specialist

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

Your role at Baxter:

The CAD Specialist supports mechanical product development through advanced SOLIDWORKS modeling, drawing creation, CAD standards, and administration of the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional environment. This role establishes and promotes CAD best practices, maintains accurate and controlled engineering data, supports CAD users, and helps ensure product design information complies with applicable quality, document control, and change management requirements. The successful candidate will combine strong CAD expertise, practical PDM administration experience, attention to detail, and effective problem-solving and communication skills.

What you will be doing:

· Creates and modifies complex 3D parts, assemblies, configurations, and production drawings using SOLIDWORKS.

· Applies sound CAD practices, including stable design intent, appropriate feature structure, controlled external references, reusable design methods, and maintainable assembly architecture.

· Produces and reviews engineering drawings for clarity, completeness, dimensional accuracy, tolerancing, GD&T, manufacturability, and compliance with applicable drawing standards.

· Develops, maintains, and governs CAD standards, drawing standards, templates, sheet formats, custom properties, material libraries, design libraries, and standard components.

· Performs CAD model and drawing quality reviews and works with engineering teams to correct issues and improve consistency across product documentation.

· Administers and maintains SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, including users, groups, permissions, workflows, data cards, variables, templates, revision schemes, notifications, and vault configurations.

· Supports PDM file relationships, version and revision control, lifecycle states, configuration management, and engineering change processes.

· Supports reconciliation and alignment of SOLIDWORKS PDM records with released product documentation maintained in the company document control system.

· Provides technical support and troubleshooting for engineers, designers, manufacturing engineers, and other CAD and PDM users.

· Partners with IT to support software installation, upgrades, service packs, licensing, system performance, backups, security, and technical issue resolution.

· Develops and maintains procedures, work instructions, training materials, and user guidance for CAD and PDM processes.

· Conducts training and onboarding for CAD and PDM users and reinforces consistent application of established practices.

· Identifies opportunities to improve CAD and PDM efficiency and may develop macros, scripts, or automation tools to streamline repetitive work.

What you will bring:

· 2+ years of relevant experience

· Advanced proficiency with SOLIDWORKS, including part modeling, assemblies, configurations, production drawings, and management of file references.

· Hands-on experience using or administering SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional in an engineering environment.

· Strong knowledge of CAD modeling and drawing best practices, dimensional tolerancing, GD&T, drawing standards, revision control, and configuration management.

· Ability to review models and drawings, identify quality issues, and recommend practical corrective actions.

· Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, customer focus, and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $72,000 to $99,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. …