CAD Technician

• Job Reference: JGCT031024
• Job Title: CAD Technician
• Salary: £Competitive DOE + Excellent benefits package
• Location: Greater Belfast Area

CAD Technician

Are you looking for a CAD Technician role? Interested in working for a leading contractor delivering high quality construction projects?

VANRATH are recruiting a CAD Technician to join a leading design team working on local and national projects

Remuneration:

£Competitive DOE + Excellent benefits package

Client

Our client is a leading contractor delivering high quality construction projects across the UK and Ireland. They work across many sectors including retail, hospitality and commercial.

They have a great opportunity for an AutoCAD Technician to join their established team on a permanent basis.

This is a great opportunity to join a leading Main Contractor and progress your career within a business that encourages career development.

Responsibilities:

• Creating high-quality detailed technical drawings and plans based on designs supplied by Architects and Designers and making modifications to existing drawings.
• Using a variety of CAD software programmes including AutoCAD and SOLIDWORKS.
• Liaising with Architects and Designers to understand their design requirements and provide technical advice to Manufacturing and Construction Technicians.
• Providing accurate, detailed and to scale drawings.
• Ensuring drawings are compliant with industry and health and safety standards and protocols.
• Presenting working drawings for use in all stages of the project, tender, manufacture/construction and installation.
• Producing installation and manufacturing documentation.
• Maintaining accurate records.

The Ideal Person:

• Degree or City and Guilds certificate or similar, applicable to CAD/Design.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and multitask.
• Ability to understand, solve and present solutions to engineering and CAD related challenges.
• Willingness to work across various industries whilst continually developing advanced and varied SOLIDWORKS product skills.
• Knowledge of engineering principles and the ability to create and read technical drawings.
• IT skills and experience using computer-aided design software such as AutoCAD and SOLIDWORKS.
• Attention to detail to create accurate and detailed drawings and check other colleagues' work for accuracy and quality.
• Strong communication skills
• Teamwork and experience of working in multidisciplinary teams incorporating clients, Engineers and Architects, to understand and interpret their designs.
• Organisation and time management skills to complete work to project deadlines.
• A flexible approach to decision making, to make changes to drawings at short notice.
• Strong mathematical skills to complete calculations and estimates.
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements to design in line with industry standards.
• Confidence, self-motivation and a strong work ethic.
• Focused on continuous development through Training and Development

For further information on this vacancy, or any other Built Environment job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact John Gallagher for a confidential discussion.