Digital Engineering Technology Specialist - CAD Platforms

at WSP USA in Overland Park, Kansas, United States

We are seeking a Digital Engineering Technology Specialist to support, administer, and improve the design technology environment used by our Power Delivery teams. This role will focus on AutoCAD, Micro Station, and other engineering design applications that support power and energy infrastructure design work.

This position is business-facing and engineering-focused. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering teams, CAD managers, project teams, and IT partners to maintain reliable design environments, improve user experience, support client and project standards, and reduce manual efforts through automation. This role will require strong collaboration with IT on software deployment, application performance, and other technology dependencies.

• Maintain and support AutoCAD profiles, templates, tool palettes, plot styles, and support files, and related configuration standards.
• Administer Micro Station work spaces, worksets, configuration variables, seed files, levels, and standards.
• Support integration of client-specific standards and project requirements.
• Manage deployment, updates, and version control of CAD standards and workspace configurations.
• Promote consistency and compliance of engineering design environments while respecting established project work spaces and business standards.
• Support design technology tools used across Power Delivery, including Autodesk, Bentley, and utility design applications.
• Partner with engineering subject matter experts to understand discipline-specific workflows and improve configuration, deployment, and support practices.
• Help evaluate new tools, updates, and workflows before broader deployment.

• Develop and maintain automation tools, scripts, and utilities to improve engineering productivity.
• Automate workspace deployment, profile configuration, standards distribution, and update processes.
• Create scripts for drawing management, data extraction, batch processing, file organization, reporting, and related design support activities.
• Improve existing automation solutions and identify opportunities for further optimization and reduce repetitive manual work.
• Document automation tools, reusable scripts, configuration logic, and support procedures.

• Provide advanced support for AutoCAD, Micro Station, and related design technology users.
• Troubleshoot profile corruption, workspace issues, configuration conflicts, application performance issues, compatibility problems, and deployment challenges.
• Investigate application performance and compatibility issues.
• Work with IT partners to resolve software installation, packaging, and infrastructure-related issues.
• Serve as a bridge between engineering users and IT by clearly translating business needs, technical issues, and design workflow impacts.
• Develop technical documentation, knowledge articles, quick-reference guides, and user support materials.

• Collaborate with engineering, CAD management, project teams, IT, and business leaders to maintain practical and scalable standards.
• Lead or support testing and validation of software updates, workspace changes, and configuration improvements before production deployment.
• Support migration activities associated with application upgrades, client requirements and business acquisitions.

• Required Qualifications
• + 5 – 10 years supporting AutoCAD, Micro Station, or related engineering design environments in an engineering, architecture, utility, infrastructure, or consulting organization.
• + Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering Technology, Design Technology or related field.
• + Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• + Experience administering CAD standards, profiles, work spaces, and configuration management.
• + Experience working with IT partners on software deployment, access, packaging, infrastructure, or application support.
• + Strong knowledge of AutoCAD configuration, profile management, templates, support paths, plotting,…