Company:                           NATURAL SYSTEMS DESIGN

We are a growing small engineering firm specializing instream, river, and wetland restoration.

Location:  Seattle, WA

Website: http://www.naturaldes.com

Contact: jobs@naturaldes.com

Position Available:         CAD TECHNICIAN

We are looking for a CAD technician to work fulltime producing plan sets for engineering/ stream, river, and wetland restoration drawings.

Responsibilities:

·         Work independently on all aspects of plan production using AutoCAD to create engineering construction documents for habitat restoration projects.

·         Coordinate with project managers to ensure that multiple projects with simultaneous timelines are completed on schedule(manage workloads and tasks for self and others).

·         Work cooperatively as part of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and biologists to develop plan sets (organize layouts, develop details, plan views, etc.).

Required Qualifications - Interest in and Demonstrated Ability to:

·         Work with AutoCAD 2010 at a minimum.

·         Competently work with AutoCAD tools needed for plan production:

o        Templates (create and work with)

o        Sheet set manager (create and work with custom fields to develop titleblocks and callouts, properties, sheet and model views, page setups, batch plot).

o        Xrefs (create and work with)

o        Styles (create and work with for text, dimensions, leaders, tables, plot, etc.)

o        Layer management (filtering, creating layers, viewport settings, plot styles, line type loads, etc.)

o        Page setup manager (create page setups)

o        Annotative scaling (create and work with)

o        Block creation and editing

o        Model space and paper space (working understanding of the different tools and content used in each)

·         Independently research/ troubleshoot AutoCAD issues, such as proper plotting, element display,xref object display, etc.

·         Submit electronicAutoCAD drawing file packages to clients and other consultants with awareness of CAD file version compatibility, relative paths, and data shortcuts.

·         Be organized and detail-oriented.

·         Integrate changes given as markups and verbally.

·         Continually expand knowledge of AutoCAD capabilities.

·         Use basic computer skills, Microsoft software, and install/ uninstall software.

·         Ability and/or interest in becoming competent (required) in:

o        Developing plan sets with City of Seattle CADD standards.

o        Working with National CAD Standards.

o        Working with CAD drawings that contain Civil 3D objects and data shortcuts so that file integrity is maintained between AutoCAD and Civil 3D.

o        Creating and manipulating surfaces, profiles, cross-sections, etc. with Civil 3D.

o        Creating basemaps from survey data.

o        Estimating CAD time needed to produce budgets.

o        Developing civil/ landscape drawings to depict natural settings.

o        Creating various line types with embedded text.

• Working with Point Clouds in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Presented by the PPI Group.

• "South of the Boarder" Joint Vancouver AutoCAD User Society (VAUS) and Bellingham AutoCAD User Group meeting.  AutoCAD 2013 rollout presentation.

• Field trip to Lynden High School for InvenTeam's open house-See the recumbent trike.

• Additional meeting topic suggestions welcome.

See everyone next month, Spring!

Bob Morse

bmorse@baug.com