Job Description

Established in 1969, this listed company has grown to having over 100 offices worldwide and more than 5000 staff. Presently working in over 60 countries, circa 80% of their turnover comes from the UK and Scandinavia.

Their Street Lighting Team is c25 personnel spread across their UK offices. With an order book stretching well into 2008 they are a thriving business unit within the group and have ambitious yet realistic growth plans for the future. In order to meet these they are actively recruiting for their teams in Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds.

Project scope is as varied as you could hope for and ranges from small scale residential schemes through to major motorway projects including the design for the single largest scheme in the UK to install 1000+ columns on a section of the M1. Other projects include various Local Authority / PFI schemes, Private developments, Highways Agency MAC contracts and a large body of work for TfL.

These project opportunities are complimented by excellent employee conditions and they work hard to maintain their reputation as one of the industry’s leading employers.

Their standard benefits package includes:

- Contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Private Health care (dependant on position)
- Rising annual leave entitlement

A CAD Technician is required to join a busy Street Lighting Design Team and play a vital support role in delivering street lighting design packages.

You will primarily be involved with producing accurate CAD drawings and will also be required to keep an accurate database of drawings and information.

It will be your responsibility to help develop and maintain high quality standards for lighting design and you can expect to be involved in working with colleagues across the business.

The role has good development prospects with the potential to progress into a Senior Technician role which will see you have more of a role in supervising junior CAD staff.

Qualifications/Skills Required

The successful candidate for this role will be someone who enjoys using CAD software, is comfortable working within a busy environment and enjoys working in a team.

You will have gained a relevant civil engineering or electrical related qualification such as HNC/HND alongside recent UK consultancy based experience working on civil or electrical engineering schemes. Any specific street lighting experience would be an advantage.

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