Senior CAD Drafter, (VIC) I Energy - Docklands, VIC, Australia

Lead the CAD and drafting design activities for work packages in this Senior CAD Drafter role in AECOM’s Energy team based in Melbourne. You will be working with and learning from, an established design and drafting team learning from their extensive experience at AECOM. Together, you will be part of the team working across a broad range of energy project types, delivering leading design drawings to the highest technical standards.

This role provides the opportunity to step change your CAD, drafting and design skills in a multidiscipline energy team. Working across a range and variety of energy projects covering primary, secondary, transmission line, civil, structural, roading and other project types will also support your career development. You will have scope to develop your drafting and delivery leadership abilities across project delivery while ensuring design standards and drawing deliverables are met.

How you’ll make a difference

• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure design excellence covering design models and drawings for substation layouts, equipment and associated utilities, set out drawings, single line diagrams, secondary schematics and others.
• Working co-operatively with team members whilst liaising with engineers and drafters (both locally, throughout Australia, and international design teams) supporting the integration of design inputs and highest standards of technical design across projects.
• Applying your document management experience, contributing to design documentation, reviewing drawings and ensure outputs meet project specifications and quality standards.
• Support, manage and coordinate the delivery of design milestones, ensure deliverables meet scope, verification, standards, timeframe and budget considerations.
• Provide technical guidance and support to design team members as required, on digital design tools and workflows, across the wider Energy team.
• Apply your common data environment (such as with Bently ProjectWise, or Autodesk Forma and others) and CAD abilities using AutoCAD and MicroStation.
• Manage your drawing deliverables, while balancing different client project and competing time requirements.

To be successful in this Senior CAD Drafting role, you will be an experienced CAD designer known for your abilities to work collaboratively across engineering disciplines, with varied design standards, and working with others to ensure delivery. You will enjoy a challenge, be action focussed, display the ability to balance competing design time commitments.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, however if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role, and we invite applications from a broad range of backgrounds. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

• Proven experience delivering energy related CAD designs across either (or all) primary, substation, secondary, protection or related energy projects.
• Experienced in developing concept and detailed designs to meet industry standards from scratch with minimum supervision, ensuring innovation and safety is at the forefront of all early discussions.
• Demonstrated experience in design drafting for High Voltage projects, ideally with 7+ years’ experience – working with Australian energy client design standards is a significant advantage.
• Highly proficient with one or more core CAD packages (AutoCAD and MicroStation) with an understanding of common data environments.
• Experience working collaboratively and proactively to build working relationships across multidisciplinary engineering project teams and coordinating design inputs including with teams based in other offices.
• Understands General Arrangement (GA) requirements as they apply across Energy related projects including communicating changes across design teams.
• Strong understanding of design standards, quality requirements and project delivery timeframes while maintaining verification, quality standards and design excellence.
• A high-quality focus, and an ability to instil a similar approach across teams.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and time management skill set, working across competing project timeframes.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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