Senior CAD Technician

About the role

Balfour Beatty Rail are recruiting for a Senior CAD Technician to join the team and work out of our London, Derby or Redhill offices as well as remotely (working within a Hybrid model). In this role the Senior CAD Technician will be supporting the design engineers in the preparation of Civil and Rail engineering models and drawings.

• Understand and comply with project and function specific standards and practices and tasks.
• Assist in the estimation of timescales for a specific task.
• Assist in the production of technical literature, enquiry documentation and reports.
• Assist in the training of junior members of staff and direct contract/agency personnel & technicians with their duties.
• Act safely and work to eliminate hazards at source.
• Assist in ensuring compliance with drawing codes of practice and standards.
• Work to ensure compliance with Network Rail and TfL drawing standards.

• Experienced Rail/Civil CAD Technician, or similar industry.
• Good technical background in engineering modelling and drawing ideally in the rail environment.
• Experience of buildings and services drawings.
• Good working knowledge of Bentley Microstation and Projectwise.
• 3D capability necessary.
• AutoCAD experience an advantage.
• Civil 3D experience is desirable.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.