CAD Specialist

AECOM • Columbia, SC

4h • $65,000 - $85,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

AECOM is seeking an experienced Civil 3D CADD Specialist II in Charlotte, NC, Greenville, SC, Charlotte, NC, or Charleston, SC As a CAD Specialist III with growing technical expertise and experience in demanding design driven projects, you will work with interdisciplinary teams on Advanced Manufacturing & Logistics Projects in a Programmatic approach. We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of Opportunity.
About Buildings + Places
AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture.
With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.
Our Carolinas B+P teams focus on providing design services in the Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics market for projects such as logistics centers and industrial facilities.
Job Summary/Responsibilities
The CAD Specialist III will work on High Tech and Logistics Industrial facility projects that are designed in the Regional Carolinas B+P group with a focus on the civil aspects of the design including grading, drainage, and utilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 4 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• 2 years of civil CAD Experience
• Experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Experience taking engineering specifications and inputting into engineering drawings
• Experience with infrastructure projects, utility profiles, and cross-sections
• Experience with assembling, managing, and manipulating large site surface models

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with Civil Site projects on master planning, conceptual design drawings, construction drawings, and engineering detail drawings
• Experience with Revit
• Desire to be mentored by leadership and provide mentorship to junior staff
• Detail-oriented and technical, yet experienced enough to see the big picture
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy of work with a innate desire for follow-through
• Ability to work independently and with large groups of technical minded people with minimal oversight
• Ability to apply passion and enthusiasm for design in a collaborative and progressive team-oriented work environment

Responsibilities

• Performs both routine and non-routine, drafting assignments, scale and edit assignments involving the use of computer-aided design and drafting equipment and other graphics software (e.g. CADD software) to achieve set results and deadlines
• CAD drafting and design for infrastructure projects (ports, civil, rail)
• Drafting and design for various projects involving civil, buildings, earthworks, utilities, stormwater, rail and/or roadways
• Digitize or trace sketches or concepts from Designers using CADD software (AutoCAD)
• Assists with creating and modifying 3D models, renderings and/or animations for promotion and proposals
• Perform complex assignments involving the use of multiple application platforms and complex systems including Revit software to achieve set results and deadlines
• Ownership of moderately difficult design tasks with minimal supervision
• Coordination with other technicians and related disciplines to produce design deliverables
• Leading development of drawing packages for a coherent functional set of plans
• Preparing design submissions and other technical documents
• Ensure that design drawings are compliant with the suggested data
• Assistance to Senior Engineers and Designers as and when needed.

Benefits

• AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level