Cad Technician

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 instal internal bespoke joinery and acoustic panelling as well as a range of fire-rated and specialists doorsets. 

The Role

The main aspect of the role is to convert either Designers / Architects design intent drawings (or sketches) into worktable technical drawings for joinery manufacture.

You will be required to carry out technical design work (computer aided design) using AutoCAD software package.

All drawings will need to be fully detailed & laid out on ‘paperspace’ for Client review

Responsibilities

• Templates / blocks / layouts: Any down time 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 & 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 portholes (4P / Aconox / iGo / etc): Project drawings are to be uploaded onto online Portholes 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 Client for comment and / or approval.
• Revisions: All drawing revisions are to have a new revision number & the list of changes are to be detailed on the right hand side of ‘paperspace’ layout.
• Working to deadlines: Each project has deadlines. It the responsibility of the CAD Technician to be fully aware of deadline dates & 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 & issued to the Project Manager or Project Co-ordinator in a timely manner. It is vitally important that the date information is required by is to be noted with each query.
• Site surveys: Either the project manager or Project Co-ordinator is to assist with sourcing accurate & detailed site surveys. These are to be dated & stored in site survey folder for each area.
• Folders & drawing numbers: All prepared AutoCAD drawings are to be stored in correct & relevant folders on the WJL folders. Also, each project is to have drawing numbers set-up & used for every issued drawing.

About You

• Joinery/ cabinetry background is essential for this role.