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CAD Production & Design Leader
Harlingen, TX
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CAD Production & Design Leader
Harlingen, Texas
As a member of Garver's growing Harlingen Water Infrastructure Design Center, the CADProduction & Design Leader will be responsible for leading the drafting and design for projects while mentoring Designers and Technicians. The Production & Design Leader will also be responsible for leading the production of 3D models and maintaining Civil3D/BIM/MicroStation standards for Garver's Water Infrastructure Design Center. The Production & Design Leader will collaborate with multiple teams of engineers, other production & design leaders, designers, and technicians to produce drawings on various Water Business Line (WBL) projects.
This role in the Water Infrastructure Design Center is one that is central to project delivery through our many offices and utilizes the latest design software/technologies, predominantly Revit, Civil3D, and MicroStation software. Typical projects in design include civil, process mechanical, structural, building mechanical, and architectural designs for water and wastewater facilities.
Primary responsibilities of the Production & Design Leader will include:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned projects
- Lead the coordination between project team disciplines (civil, process, structural, mechanical, and electrical)
- Drawing Sheet List (both excel and design software)
- Production of compiled PDF's for project milestones from all disciplines
- Design changes where necessary
- Clash detection and resolution between disciplines
- Exporting of design files
- Civil site plan linking
- Facilitate P&ID design with all process modeling.
- Lead the development of 3D models/alignments
- Organization of facilities in different models as project requires.
- Coordination of models with sub-consultants as needed.
- Maintaining the shared coordinate system.
- Owner of secured workset(s) for levels, grids, and scope boxes.
- Lead the organization of alignments, plans, sections, and details for construction documents.
- Attend project meetings as required.
- Scope & Fee Development
- Budget & Schedule Tracking
- Work closely with Design Phase Managers to maintain scope, budget, and schedule to execute projects.
- Maintaining strong communication with engineers and project managers to ensure timely delivery of projects and avoid any potential project conflicts. Acknowledge and coordinate design issues with disciplines.
- Arranging necessary resources for file sharing and communication to effectively share design files across the company or with clients, sub consultants, and contractors.
- Coordinate resources for assigned projects.
- Develop markups working with the engineers.
- Distribute and coordinate workload with fellow Designers and Technicians.
- Review the work of your fellow Designers and Technicians and serve as their mentor.
- Provide thorough review of every plan sheet for assigned projects to ensure all projects adhere to company standards, prior to engineers' review.
- Mentor, equip, train, develop, and engage junior team members to become effective design professionals and undertake increasingly more complex assignments and responsibilities as they grow.
Due to the collaborative nature of coordination for large infrastructure projects, candidates must have the ability to seek out and resolve issues through close interaction with other project team members. In addition, the candidate must be able to maintain a positive team attitude and interpersonal effectiveness to recruit, develop, and maintain an efficient and productive team.
About Garver's Water Infrastructure Design Center:
The Water Infrastructure Design Center is a knowledge-based hub that excels in highly technical, multi-discipline water and wastewater designs for locations all across Garver's footprint. The WIDC was created to bring together every unique discipline necessary to design custom solutions for water and wastewater infrastructure facilities, including civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, construction, applications, and operations. Having a focused team with in-person collaboration using the latest 3D and 4D BIM/Civil3D/MicroStation software leads to more efficient delivery, shorter design schedules, and lower change order percentages.
Requirements:
- 10 or more years of computer aided drafting and design experience with an architectural &/or engineering design team
- Extensive experience in the use of either Civil3D, Revit, or MicroStation software
- Experience using MSOffice products, including Excel, Outlook, and Word
- General understanding of various building types
- Experience with architectural, industrial and commercial designs
- Experience with multi-discipline CAD designs (i.e. piping, structural, electrical, I&C, controls, mechanical, HVAC, process)
- Strong knowledge base of site development including grading, paving, drainage, and piping
- Good communication and training skills (verbal and written)
- Associates degree in CAD or similar 2-year degree
Preferred Skills:
- Understanding of water or wastewater treatment specific equipment
- Experience using Bluebeam software
- Experience using ArcMap
- Experience using StormCAD, HEC-RAC, HEC-HMS
- Experience with file sharing protocols and other methods of file transfer
- Associate's degree or higher with a focus on CAD/BIM
- Experience with point clouds and point cloud processing with ReCap
- Experience with BIM360/ACC file sharing software
- Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental, or biosystems/agricultural or related engineering discipline.
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Garver offers its employees programs such as company-paid professional memberships, company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities that foster a progressive atmosphere. Garver provides the tools, resources, and environment to develop leaders, stimulate ideas, and accomplish projects. By offering highly competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, a comprehensive wellness program and Corporate Wellness Coordinator Garver walks the talk when it comes to work-life balance.
Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned multidisciplined engineering, planning, and environmental services firm with more than 1,000 employees across the United States. Offering a wide range of services focused on aviation, buildings, construction, enterprise solutions, federal, survey, transportation, water, and wastewater, Garver sits in the top 100 of the Engineering News-Record's prestigious Top 500 Design Firms list and is consistently recognized as a best firm to work for. Learn more at GarverUSA.com.
Garver is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Our employment practices are based upon an individual's capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
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Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Associate Degree
Required Experience
10+ years
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