Senior CAD Technician​/Principal CAD Technician

Full-time Permanent Mid-level Senior

Posted 14 Oct 2026

Senior CAD Technician or Principal CAD Technician – Overhead Line & Cable Industry

Ground line are keen to hear from CAD professionals, already operating at a Senior level, ideally within our sector, or comparable industries.

Why join us? We invest in our employees heavily, giving you time to learn and develop as you progress through your career. Our working spaces are ones you'll love. Bright, vibrant, modern and a little quirky too...there's not many places you get to collaborate with colleagues over a quick game of darts whilst the coffee is brewing.

Our salaries progress as you do and our advertised salary band represents a starting salary with earnings that increase with experience. Plus, we offer so many other perks and benefits from paid for works nights out, paid time off for your mental well-being, flexible working hours, private healthcare ...oh and the day off for your birthday....there's so much more too we want to tell you about, we just can't fit it all in.

This role is located at our North Nottinghamshire office, although for the right candidate we would consider creating a role at our Darlington or London office.

We understand the value of a diverse workforce too. It's the wide range of employee backgrounds and personalities that make us such an innovative team. We all have different experiences to draw upon and bring ideas to the table, that's one of the many things that makes us special.

What we do:

Ground line is a global design consultancy providing design and CAD services to contractors and electrical infrastructure operators. These designs allow our customers to build, improve and maintain the electrical and cabling networks throughout the UK and overseas. Ground line design foundations, towers, overhead lines and underground cable infrastructure to keep the lights on around the country, while ensuring we deliver these solutions in a safe and sustainable way, focusing on Net Zero and Innovation.

What we are looking for:
Ground line are seeking to hire a Senior CAD Technician or Principal CAD Technician to join our global, industry leading team of engineers. The role requires you to deliver overhead line draughting outputs, including the production of 2D drawings and 3D models, schedules and lists for the purposes of providing safe, clear and technically compliant visual instructions to site operatives and procurement for purchasing and installation.

Someone who enjoys working with technical detail and has an engineering background, or education would best suit this role.

We welcome applications from those that have worked within our industry, as well as those from outside of our sector, ideally one with broadly similar disciplines.

Some of the activities that you can expect to be involved with are:

• Using industry standard software to produce, develop and check 2D drawings and 3D models, based upon the output required. Drawings include (but are not limited to) set drawings, steelwork detailing and wire clearance diagrams.
• Producing and checking CAD outputs in line with statutory, CDM, industry specific standards and best practice guidance documentation.
• Making amendments to technical drawings and documentation in line with feedback from reviewers, ensuring lessons learned are implemented into future work.
• Mentoring and supporting less experienced members of the team in their daily duties.

Qualifications

• Engineering HNC/HND or equivalent (Essential).
• GCSE English & Maths at level 5 or above, or equivalent (Essential).

Knowledge

• CAD 2D and 3D Principals (Essential).
• Experience of verbal and written communication within a business setting (Essential).
• Experience of working within an Engineering Design Consultancy (Desirable).
• Production of CAD drawings for the power, energy, or related industry (Desirable).
• Project team member experience of delivering successful outputs to intricate time bound, budgetary parameters (Desirable).
• Autonomous working to deadlines, raising concerns and challenges in a timely and appropriate manner (Desirable).

As part of your application to become an employee of this company, we collect the basic personal information about you (such as name, contact details, training and reference details, as well as any other information that you choose to provide), and the processing of this information is necessary for us as a prospective employer, and to enable us to meet our legal obligations.

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