Senior CAD Designer - Land Development

Job Description:

Pape-Dawson’s Orlando office was established by the acquisition of Poulos & Bennett. The Orlando group thrives on a strong, team-focused culture. The team brings extensive experience, technical expertise, and best practices in project management, covering all phases from conception and site selection to design, permitting, and project turnover. From large master planned, mixed-use developments and single-family communities to retail centers, industrial facilities, institutional developments, and power sector projects, our Orlando team is experienced in delivering projects that improve quality of life and serve the growing needs of Central Florida.

The Senior CAD Designer position is responsible for providing design support to engineers for land development projects based out of our Orlando, FL office.

Responsibilities

• Work from detailed sketches or off red-lines to prepare plans, profiles, and detail drawings in AutoCAD Civil 3D 

• Develop construction documents showing topographical contours, elevations, profiles and cross-sections as well as develop draft design engineering drawings

• 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 organized work area to allow access of 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

• 10 years' experience in civil design - residential/commercial/site

• Extremely proficient in AutoCAD- Civil 3D

• Effective communications skills both oral and written skills

• Effective interpersonal skills for interaction with colleagues, clients and public agency officials

• Self-starter

• Ability to work interdependently within a team environment

• Must be flexible to changes in work assignments on short notice and/or on a daily basis as changes occur in project needs

• Must be able to work 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, with occasional overtime

EEO Statement:

All qualified applicants for Pape-Dawson Engineers will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.