Utilities CAD Engineer

December 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Utilities CAD Engineer

Utilities CAD Technician

Dartford

Hybrid / Flexible working

Are you working in the Digital Engineering environment of MEP, with a consultant or Contractor?

  • Can you work autonomously and set out weekly workflows always meeting agreed target deadlines?
  • Do you have engineering experience in MEP and utility distribution systems, including the co-ordinating and drafting of below ground utilities to above ground termination positions into dedicated plant areas, for Gas, Potable Water, Drainage, Electricity and Telecommunication services?

About the role:

This is a primary role to support the technical lead in utilities and to assist all teams in the Laing O'Rourke business when delivering utilities on our projects. We provide technical assistance and project management when called upon, this can include the review of design consultants' reports, drawings, and information to reduce project risks and highlight opportunities. This can include producing drawings, Navis files, vehicle tracking information into bespoke 3D models, reports or project trackers that will assist the project team's management, and delivery of Utilities.

Collating Utility providers, Survey, Civil, Structural and MEP information, extracting all Utility information to add into a single 2D or 3D format, providing a single holistic view of project utilities, for the Existing, Removals and New services related to projects. The work also included numbering, and creating schedules to identify each service found, this helps our program planners, and commercial team build cost and timescales certainty. The information is also added, and used in reports, to visually high light key risks, and opportunities.

Other tasks can be generating visual drawings, renders, and snap shots to help create reports for our in house Bid teams, project leaders or clients. This may include short synchro works to show how a transformer is installed or replaced for example. Vehicle tracking experience is also a benefit to the work we do.

As the dedicated Utilities engineer, key support is building and owning the digital family's library of infrastructure services, plant areas, metering rooms, termination points relating to utilities connecting to our varying projects.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

  • Autodesk Revit (MEP)
  • Autodesk Civil 3D
  • Autodesk Navisworks Simulate or Manage
  • Ability to produce 3D models and drawings suitable for installation and fabrication
  • Ability to create bills of material from the 3Dmodel to a fabrication level of detail
  • Ability to export and import IFC
  • Bluebeam to mark-up PDF and create holistic utility layouts, of the existing, removals ,and new services required.
  • Microsoft office suite
  • Working knowledge of Asite
  • Bluebeam to mark-up PDF's and create holistic utility layouts, of the existing, removals ,and new services required.
  • Microsoft office suite of tools, including Excel, and Word to populate project trackers.
  • Working knowledge of Autodesk BIM360 and BIM

Why Choose Us?

We are an innovative, forward thinking business who pride ourselves on the quality of our people and the projects we deliver.

We are committed to extensive training, development and long-term career opportunities and as such this role is suitable for a candidate who is seeking long-term career opportunities.

In return you will be rewarded with leading company benefits that only a global business can offer as well as an excellent remuneration package.

Our Company:

With a heritage spanning over 160 years, Laing O'Rourke is an internationally focused engineering enterprise with world-class capabilities. We operate an integrated business model comprising the full range of engineering, construction and asset management services delivering single-source solutions for some of the world's most prestigious public and private organisations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are an innovative, forward thinking business who pride ourselves on the quality of our people and the projects we deliver.

We are committed to extensive training, development and long-term career opportunities and as such this role is suitable for a candidate who is seeking long-term career opportunities.

In return you will be rewarded with leading company benefits that only a global business can offer as well as an excellent remuneration package.

Diversity & Sustainability:

We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.

We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please get in touch.