Trainee CAD Technician

Vital Energi; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Energi is seeking a Trainee CAD Technician to join the design team and assist the Senior CAD Designer in producing 2D and 3D drawings for contracts UK-wide. You will help create proposal, construction and installation drawings and liaise with engineers to ensure accuracy.

Day-to-day you will issue drawings, print and copy documents, and maintain the quality management system. This role offers on-the-job training within a multi-disciplinary engineering environment across the UK.

Qualifications

• GCSEs in Maths, English Language and Science (grade 6/B) or equivalent.
• BTEC/ONC/NVQ2 in engineering related subject or currently pursuing.
• Right to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining the integrity of the quality management system.
• Issuing and recording drawings per procedures.
• Printing and copying drawings and documents.
• Producing 2D and 3D CAD drawings from sketches.
• Liaising with Engineers to ensure accuracy.

Skills

Initiative

Logical thinking

MS Office

Training mindset

Problem solving

Education

GCSEs grade 6 / B in Maths, English Language and a Science

BTEC, ONC or NVQ2 in an engineering related subject

Job description

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The Opportunity

Our design team interact with all departments and are responsible for delivering innovative solutions. Projects you could be involved with range from energy reduction measures for an existing building a city-wide heat network utilising low carbon heat pumps. We have a diverse and creative design team who have successfully delivered award winning zero carbon solutions. We are proud to say that all of our projects are designed in-house as part of multi-disciplinary engineering team.

As a Trainee CAD Technician within the design team you will assist the Senior CAD Designer in producing a variety of proposal, construction and installation drawings for contracts across the UK.

The Role

Day To Day You Will Be Involved In

• Maintaining the integrity of the Vital Energi quality management system
• Issuing and recording drawings in accordance with the procedures.
• Printing and copying drawings and documents.
• Producing computer aided 2D and 3D models and detail drawings from sketches.
• Liaising with Engineers and other such persons to enable accurate drawings to be produced.

The Person

Skills/Experience

• GCSEs grade 6 / B in Maths, English Language and a Science OR
• BTEC, ONC or NVQ2 in an engineering related subject (or already in process of undertaking these courses).

Competencies

• Ability to work on own initiative with minimal supervision once trained.
• Ability to work in a logical manner.
• Computer literate and experience of MS Office.
• Willing to undertake training where appropriate.
• Flexibility in relation to tasks undertaken and hours completed.
• Good at problem solving.
• Computer literate with experience of MS Office programmes.

Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time‑limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

Notice To Agency And Search Firm Representatives

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