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Senior CAD Technician

Balfour Beatty Plc

The Role

Overview

Produce civil design drawings for substations, foundations, drainage, and earthworks.

Key Responsibilities

  • substation design
  • drawing production
  • material schedules
  • quality assurance
  • safety design
  • report production

Tasks

-Produce Drawings and Material Schedules with particular emphasis on substation designs to the required standard first time and within time scales set. -To comply with project and function specific standards and practices. -Work closely with other elements of the design team to ensure effective collaboration on multi-disciplinary projects. -Assist in the checking of Documents produced by other members of the team. -To operate in an open and even handed manner with all personnel across the business. Treat all who we interact with, with courtesy and respect, treating everyone equally and embracing differences. Encourage everyone to achieve maximum potential. -To assist in the estimation of timescales for a specific task. -Produce accurate packages with minimum of rework -To assist in the training of junior members of staff and direct contract/agency personnel & technicians with their duties. -Drive a Safety by Design approach at all times. -To actively develop working methods to improve the quality and quantity of the output. -To proactively contribute to teamwork and cross-functional working. To listen to each other and share knowledge enabling us to willingly combine expertise across the business and with our clients and supply chain. -Produce accurate and complete records -Liaise as necessary with the designer and operations personnel to determine the most suitable and practical interpretation of design requirements. -Ensure that Procedures and Manuals provided for compliance with the appropriate Quality Assurance Standards are applied. -To assist in the production of reports and inquiry documentation.

Requirements

  • revit
  • civils 3d
  • microdrainage
  • bim
  • autocad
  • civil drawing

What You Bring

-Proven experience of the drawing of civil engineering works -IT Literate (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel) -Proven experience with Revit 3D -Civils 3D software experience -Microdrainage software experience -Good understanding of BIM principals (PAS1192 and ISO16950) -AutoCAD experience

Benefits

-Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow. -25 days paid annual leave (pro rata) -Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more… -Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave

The Company

About Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

Sector Specialisms

Residential

Off-site solutions

Pipe fabrication and installation

Infrastructure Investments

Construction Services

Support Services

Civil engineering

Building

Ground engineering

Mechanical & Electrical engineering

Refurbishment

Fit-out

Rail engineering

Electricity networks

Rail

Highways

Structural concrete repair

Corrosion protection

Bridge strengthening

Bearing replacement

Concrete carriageway rehabilitation

Transportation (roads, rail and aviation)

Power and Energy

Mining

Water

Social infrastructure (hospitals and schools)