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** Transportation CAD Manager**
**Job Category****:** Drafting **Requisition Number****:** OPPOR001683 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
**Summary**
**DOWL** is looking for a motivated and highly organized **Transportation CAD Manager** who possesses the ability to lead a dynamic team in the delivery of high-profile public projects. The successful candidate will be an experienced CAD professional who can coordinate multiple concurrent projects and manage a well-balanced team of skilled drafters. This is an immediate full-time opportunity in our **Lake Oswego** office. In this role you will be responsible for:
* Leveraging new CAD technologies
* Joining other high performers who possess a quality-first mindset
* Overseeing plan production for impactful transportation projects throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The successful candidate will have advanced levels of CAD proficiency using Civil 3D and Microstation, as well as have experience delivering ODOT projects, ability to shift quickly between CAD standards for different clients and help the team maximize the efficiency afforded by state-of-the-art CAD software.
The manager is responsible for managing the production of all CAD deliverables and ensuring that the CAD group is properly resourced and adequately skilled to meet the drafting needs of the Practice Area. As the manager of the CAD department, this position will report to a Sub-Practice Area Leader within the Practice Area. The position is expected to be highly-utilized, performing CAD work on billable projects for the majority of their work time.
The manager is expected to exercise strong leadership, coordination, organization, and technical skills and will be responsible for ensuring that the CAD group consistently produces high quality, efficient, and on-time deliverables. A successful manager will work well with others, serve as a liaison between the CAD group and DOWLs technical design staff, and coach and mentor CAD staff.
**Requirements/Minimum Qualifications**
Education and/or Experience:
This position requires the candidate to have an Associates (2-year) degree in computer-aided drafting, or a related field. A bachelors degree in civil engineering, management, or a related field is preferred. A minimum of 8 years of professional drafting experience is required. A minimum of 2 years experience managing a CAD team or department is preferred.
**Certifications:**
* None
**Previous experience/skills:**
**Required:**
* Advanced level CAD proficiency using AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and/or Microstation
* Ability to quickly learn new CAD platforms to advanced level proficiency
* Accurately interpret markups and efficiently incorporate them into drawings
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Strong leadership and coaching skills
* Demonstrated ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects, and to successfully deliver complete and accurate projects.
* Demonstrated ability to manage and instruct others, deal with sensitive personnel issues and provide technical review of work products.
* Ability to clearly teach and explain drafting skills, standards and techniques to less senior members of the group
**Mathematical Skills**
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical analysis, and fundamentals of geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
**Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
* Accountable for working collaboratively with project teams to ensure that design deliverables are properly resourced and completed in compliance with project scope, schedule and budget.
* Responsible for ensuring proper staffing levels of the CAD department and for growing and maintaining a balanced staff that is able to meet the technical needs of DOWL projects
* Accountable for the department complying with quality control procedures and producing high quality plans and other project deliverables
* Must be able to use Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and Project software.
**Physical Demands**
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
**Work Environment**
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)