CAD Engineer

Survitec Group Limited; Gosport; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a CAD Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on creating and maintaining technical documentation that supports product delivery for diverse audiences. You will collaborate with design, production, and engineering teams to ensure clarity and compliance in documentation. With opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in a company dedicated to safety and innovation. If you are passionate about documentation and design, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

33 days of holidays

Cycle to Work Scheme

Training & Professional Development

Additional day off for birthday

Employee Assistance Programme

Workplace Reward & Recognition

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of work experience in documentation and design.
• Proven experience with Adobe Suite, especially Illustrator.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain technical documentation for various products.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure accurate communication of technical details.

Skills

Adobe Illustrator

Microsoft Office

Technical Documentation

Problem Solving

Education

College A Levels or BTEC

Undergraduate Degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

SharePoint

Job description

Vacancy Title: CAD Engineer

Vacancy Location: Gosport

Engagement Type: Permanent, Full-time

Your Company

Survitec are the world's largest survival technology provider. For over 166 years, we have been protecting lives in the air, on land and at sea, through the design, manufacture, and servicing of Survival Technology.

Today, we are a global community of 3,000 professionals with presence in 96 countries partnering with our customers to provide innovative solutions that reduce risk and help keep you safe. That's why the world's leading maritime, defence & government, energy and aerospace organisations trust us when it matters most and why we have been awarded the Silver Award by the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

Your New Role

Your role is focused on creating, maintaining, and designing technical documentation related to manufacturing and product delivery for technical and non-technical customers and end-users. This documentation covers a range of products, services, manuals, and systems for target audiences with varying degrees of technical sophistication, that meet commercial, leisure, operational and regulatory requirements.

What You Can Expect from the Role

Key Responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Document Creation and Maintenance: The role involves using software like Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office to create, design and update various types of documentation, such as manufacturing specifications, user manuals, and technical reports.

• Collaboration and Communication: You will work closely with different teams, including design, production, and engineering, to ensure that technical details are accurately captured and communicated.

• Managing Product Lifecycle: The job requires managing your workload to ensure timely delivery of documents that support the product lifecycle, including manufacturing processes, product updates, and change management. Ability to follow set brief requirements, working cross functionally on tasks and projects, meeting deadlines set.

• Tech Pack Management: You will be responsible for creating and managing technical packs that serve as references for both internal and external teams, making effective use of language and ensure understanding by end user. The use of document management systems like PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and SharePoint is crucial.

• Product review: working collaboratively with design, engineering, and quality teams, documenting the inspection and review findings with clear instruction and solution to manufacturer.

• Special projects: create graphics, using product critical dimensions handover for customer SMU requests and follow through on final implementation once approved.

• Problem Solving: The role also involves identifying and resolving issues raised by audit, design, or production teams regarding technical documentation and providing detailed feedback on solutions.

• Drafts and maintains technical and/or user documentation to a high standard, ensuring appropriate and effective use of language and on-time delivery. Creates appropriate backup files to ensure instant recovery if problems occur

• Reviews non-compliance issues and finds solutions to ad hoc problems with written product materials, requiring detailed work with design engineers, internal customers and, potentially, external customers

The Experience, Qualifications and Skills You Will Have

Essential Criteria

• College A levels or BTEC in relevant degrees or undergraduate degrees

• 2 - 5 years work experience

• Proven experience in Adobe Suite specifically Adobe Illustrator

• Good Microsoft Office skills

• Understanding of Gerber or PLM (not essential)

Why You Should Work for Us

• Enjoy 33 days of holidays including public holidays.

• Take advantage of our Cycle to Work Scheme.

• Access Training & Professional Development Opportunities.

• Additional day off to celebrate your birthday

• Receive support through our Employee Assistance Programme.

• Be recognized and rewarded through our Workplace Reward & Recognition scheme.

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

How to Apply

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If you would like more information regarding this role before applying, please feel free to reach out to us via Linked In or via [e-mail].

Survitec is an equal opportunities employer. Our diverse global workforce protects lives, every single day. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive culture where our people feel valued appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. Because, to provide service and excellence to our customers we must mirror their diversity. But more importantly because it is the right thing to do.