The CAD Technician prepares AutoCAD and Revit drawings following supervisor directives and relevant building codes. This role involves interpreting architectural plans, designing equipment within company product ranges, and preparing documentation for manufacturing. The technician collaborates effectively with teams and clients to ensure project accuracy and timeliness.
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1. CAD Technician, AECOM, Los Angeles, California
Job Summary:
- Prepare AutoCAD and Revit drawings under Supervisor’s direction
- Prepare drawings in accordance with applicable Code and Building Requirements
- Read and interpret architectural and engineering plans
- Work collaboratively with team to produce projects on schedule
- Review documents independently to ensure accuracy
- Communicate (verbally and written) in an effective manner within team and with clients
- Independently manage time in an efficient manner
- Preparing site plans for discussion with customer and other external stakeholders
- Designing equipment in line with the Companies product range.
- Supporting the production office ensuring are prepared and available for costing and manufacture.
Skills on Resume:
- AutoCAD Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Revit Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Technical Drawing Interpretation (Hard Skills)
- Document Review and Accuracy (Hard Skills)
- Project Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Effective Communication (Soft Skills)
- Time Management (Soft Skills)
- Client Engagement (Soft Skills)
2. CAD Technician, Jacobs Engineering Group, Houston, Texas
Job Summary:
- Work with project managers and design engineers to obtain required information and design details
- Draft and produce schematic layouts and process flow diagrams
- Draft and produce complete project documents on a variety of projects including pipeline design, road design, site design, and facility design using AutoCAD software
- Address review comments in a timely manner
- Meet project deadlines and balance multiple projects
- Assist in development and improvement of company drafting standards, systems, and processes
- Work effectively with team members across various geographies
- Use civil structural 3D modelling and 2d drafting for digital design documentation.
- Undertake civil structural 3D modelling using parametric design tools or computer coding.
- Responsible for quality and accuracy of work.
Skills on Resume:
- AutoCAD Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Diagram Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Document Production (Hard Skills)
- 3D Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Time Management (Soft Skills)
- Process Enhancement (Soft Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Quality Control (Soft Skills)
3. CAD Technician, Stantec Inc., Phoenix, Arizona
Job Summary:
- Create CAD drawings with a high level of accuracy and presentation, in a consistent manner
- Support Sales & Marketing Team with CAD Drawings, Renders and Wiring Schematics
- Creation of product drawings for customer sign-off
- Communicate issues with Technical Manager and resolve as quickly as possible
- Look for areas of improvement and issue suggestions to the R&D Manager
- Maintain drawing revision register and amend log file of any changes
- Produce building envelope detail drawings for multiple projects
- Coordinate building envelope detail drawings with architectural drawings and structural requirements
- Ensure that drawings are checked, approved and filed in accordance with company quality system
- Coordinate with clients, contractors, and architects to determine site specific projects and jurisdictional requirements
Skills on Resume:
- CAD Drawing Creation (Hard Skills)
- Schematic Production (Hard Skills)
- Technical Communication (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Improvement Identification (Soft Skills)
- Drawing Revision Management (Hard Skills)
- Detail Drawing Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Quality Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Client Collaboration (Soft Skills)
4. Senior Revit/ CAD Technician, Fluor Corporation, Irving, Texas
Job Summary:
- Develop positive trust-based relationships with members of the design team.
- Attend meetings with the design team, and record discussions and actions.
- Review drawn information issued by the design team and correspond with design teams.
- Develop and maintain drawing standards within the office including development of procedures.
- Prepare sketches and drawings taking responsibility for dimensional accuracy and content.
- Check drawings prepared by others for dimensional accuracy and technical content.
- Prepare specifications in liaison with the Project Engineer.
- Undertake internal clash detection with other consultants BIM models
- Inspect and report on construction progress and quality.
Skills on Resume:
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Meeting Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Design Review (Hard Skills)
- Standards Development (Hard Skills)
- Sketching and Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Drawing Verification (Hard Skills)
- Specification Preparation (Hard Skills)
- BIM Clash Detection (Hard Skills)
5. CAD Technician, Tetra Tech, Pasadena, California
Job Summary:
- Understand project scope and the goals and expectations of project leads.
- Provide input on project safety plan and ensure work activities are compliant.
- Give attention to coordination of technical work between different disciplines.
- Identify technical issues which may affect client satisfaction and coordinate with the PM to resolve.
- Perform technical tasks to ensure all elements of scopes are completed
- Work with CAD programs to proficiently create and clean-up existing drawings
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver accurate building measurement studies
- Learn and interpret various building measurement standards
- Classify and demise spaces relative to the measurement standard used for a project
- Peer review project work of others and create client deliverables
Skills on Resume:
- Project Understanding (Soft Skills)
- Safety Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Technical Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Issue Identification (Soft Skills)
- Technical Task Performance (Hard Skills)
- CAD Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Standard Interpretation (Hard Skills)
6. CAD Technician, Arup Group, New York, New York
Job Summary:
- Assist Project Team using CAD skills to efficiently develop/revise plans, section & details for various projects including environmental drawings, with guidance from the Project Manager or Engineer.
- Completion of other non-CAD related tasks received from Project Managers.
- Support of environmental field techs, as well as office related duties such as filing, copying etc.
- Design and draft various manufacturing access solutions.
- Support, guide, and oversee fabrication of shop fabrication.
- Create bill of materials with ERP system
- Collaborate with Design Engineer on new product developments
- Make necessary corrections to existing drawings following quality review process
- Review drawings from other drafters to ensure alignment with scoping and corporate drafting standards
- Provide technical and procedural support to CAD Technicians and Designers
Skills on Resume:
- CAD Design (Hard Skills)
- Project Support (Soft Skills)
- Admin Support (Soft Skills)
- Manufacturing Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Fabrication Supervision (Hard Skills)
- Material Creation (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
7. CAD Technician, HDR, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska
Job Summary:
- Support project execution in rail systems with a team of Chief Engineers/Architects and Specialists across rail systems disciplines (Systems Engineering, Signals, Electrification Systems, Data Communications, and Project Controls).
- Collaboratively work with all internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure the CADD standards and schedule expectations are clearly defined and understood.
- Produce high-quality CADD output and ensure that all the CAD outputs are subject
- Appropriate quality checks prior to submission to the delivery team.
- Work to the CADD standards and CADD manual, ensuring that a consistent approach is used across all project deliverables.
- Support project delivery teams with relevant technical knowledge.
- Operate AutoCAD and MicroStation to create drawings with layers, Xrefs, and labels.
- Support and improve the CADD system, develop improvement ideas and drive further efficiencies.
- Provide support to the business as 3D techniques are increasingly utilized to deliver value and quality.
Skills on Resume:
- Systems Engineering Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- CADD Standards Adherence (Hard Skills)
- Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Consistent Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Technical Support Provision (Soft Skills)
- Advanced CAD Operation (Hard Skills)
- 3D Modeling Innovation (Hard Skills)
8. CAD Technician, KBR, Inc., Houston, Texas
Job Summary:
- Creating of drawings in 2D and 3D, preliminary fixture layouts, millwork and décor.
- Co-ordinating with the rest of the Store Development teams to ensure quick turnaround on Costing Requests.
- Preparing retail lineage footage studies and calculations plans to ensure efficient merchandising and operational performance.
- Performing the day to day plotting of drawings for department requirements.
- Maintaining electronic archives by scanning all existing as-built drawings, as well as upholding the organization of the sample’s library.
- Developing alliances and partnerships with internal and external contacts with a focus on the organizations overall strategic plan.
- Project co-ordination with Architects and Engineers.
- Maintain current knowledge in the CADD industry and inform the Business of latest applicable innovations and ideas.
- Estimate and prioritize work to meet project timelines
- Clearly communicate ideas and ask questions of teammates via written and verbal channels
- Liaise with clients, designers, suppliers and contractors regarding all design aspects of the project.
Skills on Resume:
- 2D and 3D Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Team Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Merchandising Calculations (Hard Skills)
- Drawing Management (Hard Skills)
- Archive Organization (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Alliances (Soft Skills)
- Project Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Industry Awareness (Soft Skills)
9. CAD Technician, Autodesk Inc., San Francisco, California
Job Summary:
- Act as the main point of contact & subject matter expert for CAD & production engineering requirements & queries.
- Ensure engineering & CAD work is appropriately prioritised & planned to meet customer demand.
- Proactively escalate engineering & CAD work to mitigate risk of preventing on-time delivery to customers.
- Work closely with Customer Service, Quotations, Costing and Production
- Deliver optimal designs, drawings, structures & routings for both standard & bespoke products.
- Produce mechanical drawings for both standard and bespoke products.
- Ensure a high quality and accuracy of produced mechanical drawings through diligent review
- Checking of own work and through peer review of colleagues' work.
- Interpret requests from the Quotations Team and from Customers
- Converting into meaningful specifications for specials to be quoted
- Assist with coordination of services on projects.
Skills on Resume:
- CAD Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Priority Management (Soft Skills)
- Risk Mitigation (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Design Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Mechanical Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Specification Interpretation (Hard Skills)
10. CAD Technician, Kimley-Horn, Raleigh, North Carolina
Job Summary:
- Ensuring that customers' needs are met and giving due consideration for relevant design parameters for the customer project
- Provide approval drawings as relevant to customer, ensuring appropriate approvals are received before production is allowed to commence.
- Prepare & circulate Engineering Change Note documents for communication, approval & input into IFS of changes.
- Produce manufacturing drawings to support products issued on Engineering Change notes.
- Add part structures and routes to IFS for special parts and assist with standard parts
- Complete and check part structures and routes making 'buildable' on IFS to release for manufacture.
- Perform costing of new & modified parts, both from spreadsheet models for quote costs and on IFS for fully engineered parts
- Provision of costing cover when required for the Costing Team.
- Help to develop internal company processes to ensure efficiency can be maintained/improved.
- Proactively identify production and/or customer issues and communicate back to the wider business
Skills on Resume:
- Customer Needs Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Approval Management (Soft Skills)
- Change Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Manufacturing Drafting (Hard Skills)
- IFS System Management (Hard Skills)
- Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Proactive Communication (Soft Skills)
11. CAD Technician, CH2M Hill, Englewood, Colorado
Job Summary:
- Producing equipment outline drawings and layouts for customers
- Producing detailed fabrication, installation and AS-Built drawings
- Producing 3D models from 2D standard parts
- Ensure all drawings are completed on time and checked thoroughly before issuing
- Answering technical questions to external customers/suppliers
- Systematically maintain engineering records and archives.
- Converting model files into a different format according to customer requirement
- Site surveying occasionally required to take measurements
- Liaising with customer and site engineers and completed Request For Product Change
- Liaison with external suppliers regarding the specifications.
- Produce in-depth, detailed drawings, designs and documents to meet briefs given by clients.
Skills on Resume:
- Equipment Drafting (Hard Skills)
- 3D Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Drawing Accuracy (Hard Skills)
- Technical Support (Soft Skills)
- Record Management (Hard Skills)
- File Conversion (Hard Skills)
- Site Surveying (Hard Skills)
- Client Liaison (Soft Skills)
12. AutoCAD Technician, Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, California
Job Summary:
- Responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining CAD standards for the company,
- Creating, updating and maintaining Engineering drawings using AutoCAD.
- Support the Engineering & Facilities staff as they develop, plan and execute capital projects through
- Entire project lifecycle (scoping, design, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning)
- Creating accurate engineering drawings from field measurements, sketches, calculations, specification sheets and other data.
- Types of drawings will include, but are not limited to: general arrangement, equipment layout, architectural, electrical, P&ID, structural, civil/plumbing, and HVAC.
- Develop, implement, and enforce CAD standards for engineering drawings: file structure, file naming, layering, annotation, external references, and plots.
- Creating drawing templates, best practice documents, and detail libraries.
- Check and verify drawings conform to specifications and provided data.
- Using intuition in interpreting technical information in order to help identify the most suitable solution or layout
- Communicate and consult with engineers to resolve any drawing issues.
- Train the Engineering & Facilities staff on CAD standards & ensure timely support of internal departments
- Follow company’s health and safety program, rules and procedures and work in compliance
Skills on Resume:
- CAD Standards Development (Hard Skills)
- AutoCAD Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Project Lifecycle Support (Soft Skills)
- Engineering Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Standards Enforcement (Hard Skills)
- Drawing Verification (Hard Skills)
- Technical Consultation (Soft Skills)
- CAD Training Delivery (Soft Skills)
13. CAD Technician, Black & Veatch, Overland Park, Kansas
Job Summary:
- Attend handover meeting with internal sales, designer and production team to go through each project prior to CAD/CAM work.
- Incorporate product & highlight problems and liaise with the internal sales team
- Communicate with the rest of design team, estimating & production on all relevant elements of the project
- Work closely with others in the team to discuss design issues etc.
- Operate in a thorough, precise, systematic way within strict deadlines
- Ensure all emails are filed as a record of correspondence
- Keep detailed records of all documentation including drawings & emails
- Ensure project paper file and IT system files are maintained to a high standard with each item relevant to the project located in the correct section
- Monitor the stages of a project to make sure that deadlines are adhered
- Keep existing drawings - make amendments & update clients
- Prepare design surveys using specialized software in accordance with approved design procedures and systems.
Skills on Resume:
- Project Handover Participation (Soft Skills)
- Problem Identification (Soft Skills)
- Team Communication (Soft Skills)
- CAD/CAM Operation (Hard Skills)
- Deadline Management (Soft Skills)
- Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
- Documentation Organization (Hard Skills)
- Design Survey Preparation (Hard Skills)
14. CAD Technician, Thornton Tomasetti, New York, New York
Job Summary:
- Generating drawings from scratch with minimal direction and oversight to revising drawings based on mark-ups from others.
- Develop project CADD standards, develop print sets for milestone reviews and final drawing deliverables.
- Work may include the development of drawings/exhibits for inspections and condition assessments, for planning or conceptual level studies and for final construction documents.
- Perform quality take-offs, prepare bar lists and bill of material tables.
- Prepare as-built drawings from field mark-ups.
- Attend internal project-related meetings
- Adhere to EXP and/or client-directed QA/QC procedures.
- Participate in EXP-directed training to develop and enhance skill sets.
- Ensuring the corporate standard for CAD modeling and draughting is followed by adherence.
- Improve and maintain the corporate standard for CAD modeling and draughting.
- Problem solve and make decisions on a daily basis
Skills on Resume:
- Independent Drawing Creation (Hard Skills)
- CADD Standards Development (Hard Skills)
- Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Material Quantification (Hard Skills)
- As-Built Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Participation (Soft Skills)
- Standard Adherence (Hard Skills)
- Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
15. CAD Technician, BuroHappold Engineering, Los Angeles, California
Job Summary:
- Create and edit drawings to meet specifications utilizing CAD
- Provide needed drawings to requestors as approved by Engineering Manager
- Assist Engineering Manager with project tasks
- Perform database entry using internal Project Operating System
- Classify and file engineering drawings
- Ensure that all work is carried accurately and timely
- Liaise with other company departments to maintain up to date information and ensure accurate handover of projects to production
- Work autonomously using your fit-out/construction knowledge
- Assist with elements of supplementary documentation & presentations
- Maintain and enhance the culture and philosophy of the company
- Complete the drawing process using the information contained within the documents and in line with the Scope of Work
Skills on Resume:
- CAD Drawing Creation (Hard Skills)
- Project Support (Soft Skills)
- Database Management (Hard Skills)
- Document Classification (Hard Skills)
- Interdepartmental Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Autonomous Working (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Assistance (Soft Skills)
- Drawing Process Completion (Hard Skills)