Job Description
Overview:
This position is responsible for providing design support to engineers for Water/Wastewater pipeline and facility projects.
Responsibilities:
- With occasional assistance from project engineers and managers, produce drawings, layouts, sketches, maps, and graphic representations of engineering designs using computer-aided drafting software
- Conduct field investigations as needed
- Prepare material quantity take-off and estimates using computer-generated quantity take-off estimates, including 3-dimensional quantities like excavation and grading.
- Develop construction documents showing topographical contours, elevations, profiles, and cross-sections as well as develop draft design engineering drawings
- Develop construction documents showing mechanical plan and cross-sectional views, inside-the-fence piping, process units, in-plant hydraulic profiles and P&IDs
- Understand and use established company standards for drafting including layer names, line and character styles, drawings, and file names for sheet layout
- Handle AutoCAD transfers
- Analyze sketches, notes, and other input material to determine and plan the best approach to develop and complete drawings with minimal supervision
- Inform Project Manager(s) of progress on assigned projects and request work when needed
- Maintain an organized work area to allow access to project information by other team members
- Flexible in work assignments and team assignments
Qualifications:
- Associates Degree in Computer-Aided Drafting and Design from an accredited institution of higher education
- 6 years' experience in civil design
- Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD-Civil 3D
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Effective interpersonal skills for interaction with colleagues, clients, and public agency officials
- Self-starter
- Ability to work interdependently within a team environment
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and track and prioritize workload
- Must be flexible to changes in work assignments on short notice and/or daily as changes occur in project needs
- Must be able to work 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, with occasional overtime
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with water/wastewater inside-the-fence facilities for municipal clients
- Experience in water/wastewater underground utilities (outside-the-fence)
- Proficiency in MicroStation and OpenRoads
Pape-Dawson Engineers is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.