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Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year and is the ‘Backbone of Britain’ – the economic spine linking our main cities. We connect workers with jobs, people with loved ones and goods to market.

Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we’re empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

We’re passionate about great service and we ask ourselves, what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do? With this in mind, we pull together as one industry because we care about people and teamwork is key.

This is an exciting time to join Network Rail. We’re passionate about great service and commit to our service equation vision by “putting passengers first”. Performance, safety and getting the fundamental basics right, is something we strive for as well as asking ourselves - what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do?

You will be part of the NW&C Region which consist of three routes:

• North West
• Central
• West Coast South – and a regional team supporting Regional Major Programmes & Professional services.

To find out more about NW&C/us, visit - Who We Are.

For us, ‘Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our Design team is expanding to meet the demand brought about by our continued success in project delivery and is looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join our journey and move us forward. Our team deals with projects such as power supply upgrades, critical power systems, electric vehicle charging, signalling power renewals, and traction power upgrades, all the way through to station refurbishments.

As a CAD technician your duties will include ‘red-line’ mark-up drawing amendments, on-site survey/scanning, and document management. This would be an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate with possibilities for future development.

Our team has doubled in the past few years and our capability has expanded to include specialist capabilities such as in-house LiDAR scanning, training in this technology has allowed our technicians to manipulate data to aid designs contributing to a marked increase in accuracy and productivity. We are proud to be looking for another candidate to join our diversely capable team for a bright and fulfilling career in railway engineering with a focus on delivering projects in line with our safety vision.

What will you be doing?

CAD projects are performed within the Autodesk suite with our projects completed in AutoCAD and our 3D data converted within Autodesk RECAP. Knowledge of other CAD programs such as MicroStation, SolidWorks, Blender, and SketchUp though not directly applicable is appreciated within our CAD environment.

• Manage existing and incoming CAD data, external drawing requests and photographic records both in hard and soft formats in a structured manner, to manage the availability of latest revision data, with superseded data appropriately archived.

• Prepare scheme diagrams, and conceptual and detailed plans, for inclusion in reports, contract documentation, and presentation to external bodies.

• Provide professional advice on data transfer standards and systems, for inclusion in the contract documentation.

• Assist CAD team in the circulation of the Project’s CAD Procedures to suppliers, consultants, and contractors

Essential

• Good CAD skills and engineering knowledge.

• Relevant successful experience using MicroStation or AutoCAD.

• Good communication skills.

• Good desk top software skills.

Desirable

• Knowledge of OS Digital Mapping formats.

• Railway experiences

• Point Cloud Experience

Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do, safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should demonstrate their personal commitment to safety in their application.

Drugs & Alcohol test: All prospective candidates offered a conditional role will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel Database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.

A career with Network Rail is a journey and we will do everything we can to make it a great one.

That means plenty of support for personal and professional development. It also means a great range of benefits. Working with us, you’ll enjoy 28 days holiday, access to a range of contributory pension schemes, and the potential to top up your competitive salary with a bonus. We can offer you a season ticket loan, annual season tickets are discounted. What’s more, you can take advantage of childcare vouchers, discounted cycle hire and more. Discover more at www.networkrailcareers.com/benefits.

Network Rail positively embraces flexible working recognising that employees may wish to balance work and family/home life.

We adhere to a structured pay framework, any salary offered will be within the following pay range: Band 6 starting salary of £25,000 and raising to £30,000.

Closing Date: 3rd March 2023. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.