CAD Technician

Location

Scotland | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty is currently recruiting a CAD Technician to join the Power T&D team.

The job will initially be based in our Main Office in Motherwell until a New Project is up and running near Fort Augustus where the applicant will work from for the duration of the project.

We are open to both full time and part time candidates (including job share), and offer a flexible working policy.

Role Purpose:

To liaise with Site Operative & Design team to produce a variety of drawings for the delivery of Overhead Line & Cabling Projects.

What you'll be doing

Key Accountabilities

To deliver to the Operations & Design department the satisfactory production of Bellmouth Layouts, Construction Site Layouts, Cable Route Layouts, Line Diagrams, Access & Route Maps, Stage by stage plans & General arrangement drawings to enable a safe and secure solution in accordance with BIM & client specification. To also manage drawings files in BIM & be responsible for issuing drawings to the Client. Site visits will be expected to record surveys for drawing production. Reports to the Design Team Leader.

Key Responsibilities

• As a CAD Technician under a Design Team Leader to support drawing production for a major project.
• Understand the requirements of contract documents and liaise with Senior/ Principal Design engineers as necessary to agree design requirements.

Be part of a team to deliver project specific drawings at a high standard and accuracy in accordance to client specification and BIM requirements & across all departments.

• Work on your own & as part of a team, be willing and able to share technical ability, knowledge to other members of the team whilst being keen to learn new skill sets.
• To produce a verity of drawings for the construction of stone access roads, Over Head HV Pylons & HV Cable Routes.
• Be able to carry out on site surveys to aid drawing production.
• To be flexible to ensure that deliverable timescales are met.
• Produce cable routes from Construction to As Built as well as producing cross sections, Line Diagrams and termination approach drawings.
• Have the ability to self-check own work prior to approval stage and issue drawings to Doc control Via BIM.
• Attend and contribute to team meetings and consider ways to constantly improve CAD delivery in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Drive a Safety by Design approach at all times.

Operating Environment:

• Ensure Balfour Beattys Code of Conduct is thoroughly understood, adhered to and promoted across the business to ensure safe, compliant and consistent working practices.
• 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 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.
• Behaving with integrity and demonstrating professional image at all times. To always do what is right.
• To take personal responsibility & accountability for actions, constantly striving to improve and exceed expectations ensuring safety and quality are never compromised.

Interacts with:

Clients, Consultants, CDM Principal Designers (internal and external), Third Parties (Network Rail, Highways agency, etc.), Sub-Contractors, Materials Suppliers, etc.

Who we're looking for

Preferred Qualifications

• HNC/HND (or equivalent) Computer Aided Draft & Design.
• Proficient using the industry design software AutoCAD.
• Full driving licence with access to vehicle.

General Experience

• Previous experience of acting as a CAD Technician in an Engineering / Civils environment.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of Autodesk AutoCAD.
• Ability to use and process international geographic datasets.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of cable routes and existing services.
• Working under a BIM environment.
• Microstation, GIS, Autodesk Civil 3D and Visualisation experience would be beneficial.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

About us

Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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