CAD Technician
Permanent
£26,000 - £35,000
Stoke on Trent - (Hybrid working available 3 days in the office, 2 at home)
The Client
Our Client supplies bespoke joinery to the commercial, leisure, healthcare, education and fit-out sectors. They design, manufacture and install internal bespoke joinery and acoustic panelling as well as a range of fire-rated and specialist doorsets.
The Role
The main aspect of the role is to convert Designers' or Architects' design intent drawings (or sketches) into workable technical drawings for joinery manufacture. You will be required to carry out technical design work (computer-aided design) using the AutoCAD software package. All drawings will need to be fully detailed and laid out on paperspace for Client review.
Responsibilities
* Templates / blocks / layouts: Any downtime can be used to update templates, blocks library, layouts, etc.
* Production hand-over: The CAD technician will be required to hand over any production-ready works to the operations manager, discussing all design details and materials specifications.
* Production drawings: If work is carried out in-house, signed-off CAD drawings will need to be converted into production drawings. These drawings may need converting into DXF files for CNC manufacture.
* Online portals (4P / Aconox / iGo / etc): Project drawings are to be uploaded onto online portals as a matter of record. All signed-off drawings are to be issued as: Construction Issue.
* Achieving sign-off: Once a CAD drawing is completed, it is to be issued to the Client for comment and/or approval.
* Revisions: All drawing revisions are to have a new revision number, and the list of changes is to be detailed on the right-hand side of paperspace layout.
* Working to deadlines: Each project has deadlines. It is the responsibility of the CAD Technician to be fully aware of deadline dates and strive to achieve them. If deadlines cannot be met, the Project Manager must be informed, giving them plenty of notice.
* RFI's / correspondence: Any information required to facilitate CAD drawing is to be clearly listed and issued to the Project Manager or Project Coordinator in a timely manner. It is vitally important that the date information is required by is noted with each query.
* Site surveys: Either the Project Manager or Project Coordinator is to assist with sourcing accurate and detailed site surveys. These are to be dated and stored in the site survey folder for each area.
* Folders & drawing numbers: All prepared AutoCAD drawings are to be stored in the correct and relevant folders on the WJL folders. Also, each project is to have drawing numbers set up and used for every issued drawing.
About You
* Joinery/cabinetry background is essential for this role.
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