Senior Drafter

We are seeking an experienced drafter will work with our clients engineering and CAD/ BIM teams to prepare and deliver engineering drawings related to civil infrastructure facilities including water, liquid waste and other works. Your drafting and design assignments may range from preliminary design to records drawings. This is an ideal role for a technically advanced CAD / BIM professional with wide ranging infrastructure design experience, including working experience in preparing civil mechanical and/or process mechanical drawings, and reviewing drafting deliverables against established standards.

Responsibilities

•Performs technical drafting, preliminary layout and design work for a variety of water, sewer and drainage systems, including sewage treatment, plants, water reservoirs, pumping stations and ancillary structures.

• Prepares special plans, job schedules, estimates, bills of material; compiles data for reports and investigations; processes applications and handles inquiries for information from outside the office.

• Occasionally performs field surveys, inspections or investigations.

• Assists superior with minor administrative matters on special drafting assignments, assists in training new staff and assigns, checks and supervises the work of subordinate draftspersons; maintains prescribed drafting procedures and standards.

• Checks as-constructed information received from the field.

• Checks contractor's shop drawings and bills of material for approval for construction.

• As required, organizes and coordinates drafting work on larger projects; provides liaison with the project engineer, consultants and others; maintains records pertaining to the project.

• Tabulates tenders, specifications and prepares requisitions for materials.

Qualifications

• Considerable specialized knowledge of drafting, layout, design and reproduction principles, methods and techniques as applied to the production of sketches, plans, charts and cost estimates.

• Working knowledge of engineering design principles and practices and of basic technical mathematics.

• Working knowledge of construction methods and materials.

• Ability to perform mathematical computations that occur in drafting and surveying assignments.

• Ability to read and interpret engineering plans and specifications and produce engineering drawings to established standards from written and/or oral instructions with minimal supervision.

• Ability to direct and supervise the work of subordinates engaged in technical field or office work.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the public, contractors, subordinates and other employees.

• Skill in the use of drafting, surveying and computing instruments or equipment such as design and drafting applications (e.g. Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, etc.).

• Superior aptitude in drafting, visual perception and computation.

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity please forward your resume via email to Nick Paraskeva | View email address on ca.talent.com