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Senior CAD Technician and BIM Manager – Water Environment Market
Gresham Smith’s water experts navigate changing regulations, aging infrastructure and emerging technologies to address clients’ present-day challenges while providing resiliency and flexibility for the future. From maintaining clean drinking water and treating wastewater to managing stormwater, we invite you to join us in designing solutions that improve essential infrastructure to keep communities healthy and thriving.
Our Water Environment Market has an opening for a senior-level CAD technician and BIM manager with experience developing and managing design documents in Civil 3D for linear utility projects (e.g., water lines, sanitary sewers, and storm sewers). Our team of project professionals will provide you with support and flexibility, allowing you to produce high-quality work while maintaining a work-life balance. Our projects are engaging, challenging, and have a significant impact on the communities we serve. Come join us!
Responsibilities:
Gresham Smith will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, headhunters, contract recruiters, search firms, or employment agencies. An executed GRESHAM PLACEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT (PSA) is required prior to any payment obligation for either a referral or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously executed PSA, GRESHAM SMITH explicitly reserves the right to recruit and hire those candidate(s) at its discretion, and without any financial obligation whatsoever to the recruiter or agency. Any such unsolicited resume or candidate contact information, including those submitted directly to GRESHAM SMITH’S hiring managers or any other employee, shall become the property of GRESHAM SMITH upon receipt.
Gresham Smith’s water experts navigate changing regulations, aging infrastructure and emerging technologies to address clients’ present-day challenges while providing resiliency and flexibility for the future. From maintaining clean drinking water and treating wastewater to managing stormwater, we invite you to join us in designing solutions that improve essential infrastructure to keep communities healthy and thriving.
Our Water Environment Market has an opening for a senior-level CAD technician and BIM manager with experience developing and managing design documents in Civil 3D for linear utility projects (e.g., water lines, sanitary sewers, and storm sewers). Our team of project professionals will provide you with support and flexibility, allowing you to produce high-quality work while maintaining a work-life balance. Our projects are engaging, challenging, and have a significant impact on the communities we serve. Come join us!
Responsibilities:
- Senior CAD Technician
- Use Civil 3D to develop 3D alignments and pipe networks for linear utilities with consideration for constructability and design standards, with minimal oversight.
- Use Civil 3D to execute site grading and earthwork tasks using 3D surfaces, with minimal oversight.
- Set up and develop design sheets, including plans, profiles, and details, in accordance with applicable drawing standards and templates.
- Communicate proactively with design team, clients, and external consultants to resolve design challenges and technical questions, clarify work product expectations and standards, and produce consistent, high-quality deliverables as a team.
- Work with design team to resolve comments on design documents from project team and client.
- BIM Manager
- Develop and manage Civil 3D styles, templates, and other features to facilitate design team compliance with drawing standards and streamline design team workflows.
- Develop project-specific approach for CAD file organization and drawing setup with consideration for drawing efficiency, standards, and scope of work.
- Establish project protocols for use of cloud-based file sharing platforms, as well as perform file exchanges and integrate design data from external team members for use by design team.
- Advise team on best practices and techniques for design production in CAD and serve as a technical resource for questions from the design team.
- Review design team drawings and advise team on changes necessary to comply with design standards and produce clear and consistent design documents.
- High school diploma or GED
- 5 years of experience as a CAD technician, developing design documents in Civil 3D for linear utility projects, performing grading tasks using 3D surfaces, and developing 3D pipe networks and pressure pipe networks.
- 3 years of experience in a BIM manager role (developing and/or managing CAD standards and templates) is preferred.
- Extremely proficient in AutoCAD- Civil 3D version 2024 or higher
- Experience in Autodesk Construction Cloud, ProjectWise, Revit, and Bluebeam is a bonus.
- Professional Engineering License is not required.
- Excellent organizational, oral and written communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills for interaction with colleagues, clients and public agency officials.
- Ability to perform assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Knowledge of construction documents, civil/construction design processes, and building systems.
Gresham Smith will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, headhunters, contract recruiters, search firms, or employment agencies. An executed GRESHAM PLACEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT (PSA) is required prior to any payment obligation for either a referral or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously executed PSA, GRESHAM SMITH explicitly reserves the right to recruit and hire those candidate(s) at its discretion, and without any financial obligation whatsoever to the recruiter or agency. Any such unsolicited resume or candidate contact information, including those submitted directly to GRESHAM SMITH’S hiring managers or any other employee, shall become the property of GRESHAM SMITH upon receipt.
