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This growing bespoke high end joinery business and manufacturer is seeking an experienced CAD Technician/Operator. You will report into the Managing Director of this growing business and take responsibility for dealing with CAD drawings on behalf of clients. Clients will come to you with their initial design, and you will be responsible for translating this into manufactured design. You will interprete the client's design so that it can be designed on the business's shop floor and manufactured.   The company deal with high end contemporary bespoke works and high-quality commercial fit-out works. Your tasks will include: -
- Provide working drawings and additional information to facilitate the design, manufacture, and installation of bespoke joinery
- Interprete client's design work so that it can be manufacture
- Assisting with attending a design meeting on site with clients and management – and once a job is won, the MD will hand the project to you, and you will produce working drawings
- Putting together detailed drawings and onto AutoCAD 2D
- Liaising with both clients and architects, taking notes and reporting back
- Provide working drawings
- Liaise with shop floor production to ensure that what has been drawn up is being manufactured as what is indicated to the clients
- Drawing up bespoke items such as reception desks, featured wall panels, ceilings, elements, kitchen work, and cabinets
- Review quotes and maximise costs against producing working drawings would be ideal
- Occasionally attend site to undertake design meetings
- Provide details to other trade contractors
- Site surveys for drawing purposes
- RFI (request for information) schedules
- Sending samples of work and drawings out to clients for approval
- Read and understand architectural drawings and produce drawings from the architect’s design
- Compile production checklists and produce purchase orders once an item is drawn and order the material needed for that order, placing all this onto Sage
- Explaining all drawings to whoever manufactures it, which is either in-house or subcontracted
- as well as having a good understanding of kitchen type work, cabinets – anyone from a bench hand joiner who has moved into the office – more experience
To apply you will have: -
- CAD Technician/Operator/or designer experience within joinery or a joinery manufacturer
- Must have joinery drawings experience
- MS Office
- Good at design interpretation from a manufacturing point of viewÂ
- AutoCAD 2D experience is essential
- Ideally experience of being able to translate drawings for manufacturing purposes
- Able to work from quotations and understand architectural drawings
- Able to prioritise a busy workload
What’s on offer: -
- Career progression
- Free parking
- Monday to Friday 8-5 (flexible)
- Competitive salary
