Senior CAD Technician - Roads & Highways

Role Summary

The Senior CAD Technician role will include creation and editing of drawings in compliance with WSP Europe/ Switzerland CAD Standards and detailing practices and ensuring high quality output.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for basic CAD and BIM design tasks as directed by the Engineer
• Responsible for all drafting for a particular discipline
• Supervise, coordinate and support CAD Technicians in workload, good detailing practice and work procedures.
• Review and monitor the production of drawings to maintain quality and accuracy
• Creation and editing of drawings sketches in compliance with WSP Switzerland/ Europe CAD Standards, detailing practices and agreed timescales
• Completion of CAD tasks received from Engineers and CAD Coordinator
• Coordinate and support the Complementary Resources Centers (CRCs) CAD team
• Generate sections / schedules / schematics from general arrangement drawings
• Ensure drawings are issued, and filed in an appropriate manner
• Conversion of ACAD drawings to other formats such as DWF PDF
• Provide regular work status updates, including risks or concerns, to line manager
• Ensure that Health Safety is embedded into all work practices in line with company policies
• Develop expertise and stay abreast of developments in relevant technical field
• Contribute to technical capabilities of the CAD team as a whole
• Attend and contribute in team/project meetings as required
• Contribute to the delivery of the business unit strategy.
• Support the companies approach to sustainability
• Identify improvements (where possible) to enhance WSP Switzerland/ Europe service to clients
• Lead by example and ensure QMS compliance across team
• Complete accurate timesheets by set deadline
• Feedback on all business development opportunities

Key Competencies / Skills:

Mandatory skills

• Client Relationships
• Collaborations Teamwork
• Commercial Acumen
• Technical Capability Delivery
• Adaptability Learning

Desired skills

• Health Safety
• Number of training days
• Utilisation
• Client (internal external) feedback
• Accuracy of work
• Meeting deadlines
• Achievement of individual business objectives

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Diploma in a relevant discipline draughting service with ACAD.
• Minimum of 10+ years relevant work experience using AutoCAD.
• Proven ability to work up drawings (plans, sections details) from Engineers basic sketches to full working drawings
• Excellent working knowledge of AutoCAD software (version 2020 and above). Including AutoCAD functions, such as X-Refs, Lisp, Blocks, Layers, Model Space Paper Space, Viewports, Pen Setting files and all AutoCAD utilities. Should also be familiar with other Autodesk software such as Reference Manager. Should have understanding of ACAD customization and be able to load WSP Standard Menus, settings and make sure all PCs are set-up correctly uniformly.
• Experience with CIVIL 3D / Navisworks Manage / 3D CAD modeling is preferred.
• Experience in the supervision and mentoring of other CAD technicians.
• Good working knowledge of the relevant discipline
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office
• Familiar with working in a LAN environment
• Working knowledge of BIM software packages