About the role
Balfour Beatty Living Places is a multi-award-winning business specialising in highways maintenance, street lighting and public realm services throughout the United Kingdom. We improve every day through engaging with our customers, investing in our people and using the latest technology to create positive, more efficient long-term outcomes - ultimately creating communities where people want to live, work and play. Our solutions include consultancy, finance, design and maintenance of the entire streetscape. We're shaping places, creating economic growth and meeting the needs of a changing society.
Our fantastic team in Southampton have recently identified the need for a CAD Technician to be based in the city. The successful candidate will work in the design team to produce drawings for a range of schemes for the Highways Service Partnership, including the annual maintenance programme, Active Travel highway schemes and Transforming Cities schemes.
What you'll be doing
- Read and determine information from drawings, schedules and specification
- Preparation of drawings from Engineers sketches, using CAD software
- Production of schedules,
- Production of accurate 2D drawings and 3D models, and structuring of 2D and 3D information to suit modularisation
- The provision of drawings detailing the setting out information installed
- Maintaining accurate records drawing registers, schedules, specifications and take-off
- Works to Weekly Programme drafted by Senior CAD Technician - and marks up progress achieved weekly
- Works with members of the design team to adhere to the CAD standards created on the Southampton HSP contract
Who we're looking for
- Experience of working in a highway engineering profession
- At least 3 years experience of using AutoCAD
- Experience of using Autodesk Vehicle Tracking and KeySoft packages, particularly Keylines, Keysigns
- Experience of Civils 3D is desirable.
- Self-motivated & detail orientated
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Hardworking, trustworthy and reliable
- Ability to work well under pressure, manage your own time & meet deadlines
- Confident in detailing full drawing packages
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
Attractive salary package
37.5 core hours per week
Company Pension savings scheme
25 days annual leave
Option to buy extra annual leave days
Be available within a reasonable commutable distance from Southampton
WFO/WFH work flexibility
About us
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.
Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.
We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.
The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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Job Reference: BBUK02360