CAD​/BIM Engineer

Job Description

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water's region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.

This role is hybrid and will initially be for a fixed term period until the end of the 2026.

• Integrate health and safety considerations into all CAD processes, ensuring safe and maintainable systems.
• Understand and use specifications, installation details, supplier details, and datasheets for various pipe types and applications.
  
  Understand and use specifications, installation details, supplier details, and datasheets for various pipe types and applications.
• Verify that connection details comply with industry standards and WIMES.
• Model pipe and duct routes, as directed by the design engineer.

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety (H&S), ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained.
• Ensure completion of a full Induction to H&S in accordance with Company policies, procedures, standards &/or guidance.

• Ensure your work is carried out in accordance with the agreed timescales and effort and advise the Technical Manager of any deviation as soon as it occurs.
• Ensure your work has alignment with Alliance data management and BIM procedures, meeting the required data and model maturity levels.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, incorporating feedback and industry best practices into the BIM model.

• Work closely with other SPA disciplines to ensure the project objectives are met. Participate in regular project and discipline team meetings.
• Support creating a positive and fulfilling environment, where everyone is respected and heard, treated equally, recognised, and diversity is embraced.

• Check the quality of finished drawing and models from your own output and work with your team ensuring output is completed to a high standard.
• Ensure drawing and models adhere to CAD Standards and BEP maintaining highest levels of quality of control.
• Promote, monitor and have ownership of quality of the drawings and models being delivered by you & your teams.
• Identify and record issues in models and drawings to the project teams via the current digital systems.

• Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Good IT skills.
• Proven problem-solving capability
• Encourage, support and collaborate with a range of different CAD Team members
• Be open to new technologies & procedures.
• To be willing to undertake extensive further training specific to the role
• Good understanding of ISO 1965
• Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, Recap, Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)

• An engineering diploma, degree, or equivalent.
• Working towards professional status, with a relevant institution.
• Awareness of the latest relevant standards affecting engineering delivers e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 19650, PAS 1192 etc

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.

We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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