CAD Team Leader

calfordseaden is a leading multi-disciplined construction and property consultancy. We provide a definitive range of services to the UK building and construction industry covering civil and structural engineering; chartered building and quantity surveying; project management; architecture and master planning; mechanical and electrical engineering; sustainability; fire consultancy, building information modelling (BIM); and health and safety.

Position

The role:

This is an exciting new role created to lead the MEP CAD model and drawing production process. The role brings together a 5 pronged approach to delivery; comprising of a core team of CAD/BIM technicians within the MEP group, drawing production and adjustments by engineers, selected internal assistance from other technical disciplines, external CAD bureau assistance, and finally contract / agency staff.

The post holder will create and lead this function with the Group leader, setting the standard for efficient high quality drawing and model production, prioritizing and delivering strategies agreed in collaboration with the Associate and Partner led management team.

The majority of work will be towards high quality 2D drawing production using Autocad MEP and the remainder within a REVIT MEP environment.

We provide client advisory services with design standards to RIBA 3 and a RIBA 4A level of detail. The strategy is to deliver high quality coordinated information for tender, coordination and third party approval purposes.

Our main operating sectors are the residential and commercial sectors, generally comprising from small to medium size projects to £75m construction value.

What you’ll be doing:

• Review existing templates, standard details and object families in collaboration with the MEP management team and lead change where needed to ensure that a CAD/BIM manual appropriate for the level of detail we typically produce is in place and regularly updated and adhered to.
• Review and manage quality output from the 5 pronged delivery approach of team, engineers, internal assistance, CAD bureau and contract / agency staff.
• Manage day to day workload of the CAD / BIM model team, and agree priorities and delivery dates with the MEP management team.
• Manage people within immediate team.
• Set the standard for quality and delivery of information.
• Continually review opportunities for operational efficiency using software, hardware, training and new technology, and implement within the team in collaboration with the MEP management team.
• Produce Building services mechanical, electrical public health layout drawings using Autocad MEP and REVIT where required, both 2D and 3D coordination, following BSRIA BG6 levels of detail against RIBA workstages.
• Set the standard for drawing production and delivery and assist in the training and development of the team aligned to the needs to business and the individual.

What you’ll need:

Qualifications

• Construction industry related diploma or degree level qualification, preferably in building services MEP and / or extensive experience 15-20 years + in MEP sector.
• Autodesk family of software certifications desirable but not essential.

Knowledge

• Autodesk Autocad MEP with productivity plug ins.
• Autodesk Revit, and related clash detection, visualisation, productivity and coordination tools.
• Working within common data environments to ISO 19650 standards.
• Autodesk construction cloud data environment.
• Extensive Building Services MEP knowledge gained within either a consulting engineering and/or contracting environment, preferably residential sectors.
• Family, object creation, and drawing / model templates production.
• Basic knowledge of COBIE data production and interrogation.
• Basic knowledge of creating custom scripts and productivity tools.
• Good knowledge of BSRIA BG6 levels of detail against RIBA workstages.
• Previous experience of managing people.

Skills

• Managing people, projects and multiple drawing production programmes.
• Time management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving.
• Active listening and critical thinking.

Our Values:

Collaboration Being one team and supporting each other to achieve the best results and maximise our potential.

Authenticity Being true to ourselves and others and celebrating our differences.

Giving Back Recognizing and embracing the need for our work to have a positive social impact.

Excellence Striving to be up with the best and at the forefront of what we do.

Support Providing investment, encouragement and support to bring out the best in our People.

Integrity Being honest and doing the right thing.

Our Vision

To be identified as a trusted client advisor; national in reach, local in service and selected for our quality and expertise in the built environment.

Our values are integral to everything we do and are reflective of our interaction with each other, our clients, our wider stakeholders and how we approach our work and present ourselves.

Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the best results and are ultimately why our clients choose to work with us time and time again.

Wellbeing and Inclusion are at the forefront of our people strategy, and we are now to offer hybrid working on 95% of our roles and have recently committed to enhanced Family Leave schemes (after a qualifying period). We are passionate about encouraging more diversity within the construction industry and developing our apprenticeship program, along with enhancing our schools outreach program is part of our strategy.

If you are aligned to our values and are a talented and commercially minded please apply, or if this job isn’t quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within construction consultancy, please send us your CV for one of our future roles.

Training and Development

We are proud to hold the Investors in People Gold award and of our offerings for Leadership and Management Development. Our IIP awards confirms our commitment to developing our people and we are keen to assist individuals in developing work related professional interests. The Practice takes training seriously, providing practical and financial assistance to all eligible personnel.

calfordseaden is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to and support the principles of equality of opportunity in employment, training and service delivery.

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006: List of Documents

The Practice is required under this Act to ensure that all Employees have the right to work in the UK and the right to do the work offered.

At interview all potential Employees must provide one of the original documents set out in List A or two of the original documents in the combinations given in List B (Please see Supporting Document 1). It is not necessary to produce documents from both lists.

Photocopies of documents provided will be retained on the successful applicant’s file.

This job description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and may include other duties and responsibilities as may be determined. It is not intended to be rigid or inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works.

Under General Data Protection Act 2018 all employees are responsible for records held, created or used as part of their work for calfordseaden, whether paper-based or electronic, which also includes emails. Records should be managed and stored appropriately and should in all cases comply with the requirements of the ACT.

The appointment is subject to proof of the attainment of any qualifications deemed essential to the post and used as a basis for shortlisting and selection. Failure to provide evidence of the required qualifications will result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.