Senior CAD Designer

Description

• Responsible for providing leadership and direction of specific CAD technologies assigned to the project team.
• Leads the performance of investigations, studies, and the development of designs for a variety of large and complex infrastructure projects with a focus on Dams.
• Performs both routine and non-routine, complex design assignments that require judgment in resolving issues or making recommendations.
• Dams – Grading design and surface modeling for earth-fill, rockfill, conventional concrete and RCC embankments, quarries, spillways, outlet works, foundations and drains.
• Mining- Grading design, surface modeling and site development for tailing storage facilities, embankments, seepage ponds, utility corridors, waste rock piles, buttresses, ring dikes, underdrains, closure plans, and instrumentation and monitoring.
• Prepare detailed calculation packages for earthwork quantities, reservoir storage capacity, and tailing storage.
• Data management of survey and client data through the project life cycle.
• Prepare and effectively present technical and comprehensive reports verbally and in writing.

Requirements

• Ability to take general direction and simple sketches from engineers to then develop design criteria and progress through all stages of design.
• 15 years of relevant CAD experience in advanced grading
• Detailed understanding of coordinate systems and the ability to transform data from one system to another.
• Strong technical progression within civil engineering and design.
• Field and survey experience a plus.
• Ability to process a variety of data sources to build existing base surfaces from LiDAR, survey points, break lines, DEMs, and contours.
• Microsoft Excel
• Required Software experience: Civil3d
• Extensive experience with Autodesk Civil 3D through release 2025, with an emphasis on complex and advanced surface modeling capabilities.
• Experience with other software a plus:InfraWorksVehicle T rackingReCap Bluebeam MicroStation OpenRoads, OpenGround, GeoPakRevit
• BA/BS and 6 years of relevant experience and or equivalency of experience and or education
• Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards.
• ESRI GIS, Blue Marble Global Mapper or other GIS application.

Benefits

• No relocation will be provided for this role
• Sponsorship is not offered for this position now or in the future

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance