Autocad Technician

Put Your CADD Skills to Work — AutoCAD Technician or Senior CADD Designer

Alachua County Public Works department is concurrently recruiting to fill one position and may fill it either the AutoCAD Technician or Senior CADD Designer classification, depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate. Applicants may apply to both postings; each application will be evaluated independently against the minimum qualifications for the respective classification

Associate of Arts Degree in Engineering Technology, CAD/D Technology or a closely related field, five years of increasingly responsible civil engineering experience in the preparation of civil engineering contract drawings and plans using CAD; or any equivalent combination of related training and experience. Applicants within six months of meeting the education/experience requirement may be considered for trainee status.

Successful completion of all applicable background checks pre-hire and ongoing are required.

This is advanced technical work in the application of drafting skills in the Public Works Department.

An employee assigned to this classification performs technical duties involved in the application of advanced drafting skills and techniques, both manual and computer assisted, in the preparation of road design plans, maps, and other illustrative materials. Types of projects will be transportation related, roadway and trail systems, civil engineering, architectural, mapping, and testing and other plans or schematic preparations.

Work is performed under the direction of a higher level supervisor and is reviewed through conferences, reports, and observation of results obtained.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• This is an emergency essential classification. Upon declaration of a disaster and/or emergency, all employees in this classification are required to work.
• Exudes a positive customer service focus.
• Advocates building organizational culture through aligning decisions with the County's core values.
• Creates roadway construction plans and provide other related documentation with occasional assistance from supervisor or others.
• Performs civil engineering design drafting duties and computations, operating a CAD system using graphic oriented software and other related computer systems and software.
• Drafts plans, profiles, cross sections, details, alignments and illustration topographical features from written or electronic data.
• Assists with the planning and layout of technical contract plans, and the preparation of engineering reports or studies, including spreadsheets, charts, graphs, technical illustrations and displays.
• Performs calculation, prepares maps and right-of-way drawings as required; reviews proposed construction drawings for drafting accuracy and logic in layout, forwarding plans requiring review to appropriate personnel.
• Manipulates field data gathered by survey crews and drafts topographical features such as structural segments of flood control or road projects, and other objects whose position is important to the design of a project.
• Receives, analyzes, plots and files data used to maintain, expand upon, and refine maps and records; reviews survey records.
• Digitizes and scans maps, plans, drawings and legal documents for applicable use in the design process.
• Maintains complex office records, including maps, plans, boundary descriptions, county road data permits, legal documents and similar materials.
• Calculates and computes quantities and costs of materials for routine construction projects.
• Researches, drafts and reviews records of survey and parcel maps.
• Obtains, analyzes and interprets title reports and property deeds; also determines frontage adjustments, calculates the present and future right-of-way lines and makes necessary…