Senior CAD Designer (Dams & Mining)

Overview

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Dams

With a history spanning 85+ years, our expertise in dam and reservoir engineering covers feasibility studies, design, construction, and maintenance to ensure safety and longevity of water infrastructure.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior CAD Designer to be based in Denver, CO; Oakland, CA; or Sacramento, CA. You will lead work on a variety of projects including, but not limited to: expansions of tailings facilities; spillway upgrade/retrofit concepts; hydro-pumped storage; storm water mediation; seepage water detention; and more.

Responsibilities

• Extensive experience with Autodesk Civil 3D through release 2022, with emphasis on complex surface modeling.
• Take general direction and engineer sketches to develop design criteria and progress through all design stages.
• Dams – Grading design and surface modeling for earth-fill, rockfill, conventional concrete and RCC embankments, quarries, spillways, outlet works, foundations and drains.
• Mining – Grading design, surface modeling and site development for tailing storage facilities, embankments, seepage ponds, utility corridors, waste rock piles, buttresses, ring dikes, underdrains, closure plans, instrumentation and monitoring.
• Civil/Site – Site development, access roads, drainage channels, dam-related works, slope stabilization, retaining walls, detention ponds, land development, surface drainage, and stream restoration.
• Prepare detailed calculation packages for earthwork quantities, reservoir storage capacity, and tailing storage.
• Process data sources to build existing base surfaces from LiDAR, survey points, breaklines, DEMs, and contours; understand coordinate systems and transform data between systems.
• Data management of survey and client data through the project life cycle.
• Meet with clients for kickoff, design reviews, and project closeout.
• Work under limited supervision; perform routine and non-routine, complex design work requiring judgment.
• Field and survey experience is a plus.
• Provide leadership and direction of CAD technologies assigned to the project team.
• Lead investigations, studies, and development of designs for large, complex projects focused on Dams and Mining.
• Prepare and present technical reports verbally and in writing.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong technical progression within civil engineering and design.
• Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards.
• Experience with: Civil 3D; BIM360; ProjectWise; Microsoft Excel; Google Earth; NavisWorks; ESRI GIS; Blue Marble Global Mapper or other GIS; InfraWorks; Vehicle Tracking; ReCap; MicroStation; OpenRoads; OpenGround; GeoPak; Revit.

Additional Information

Offered compensation based on location and qualifications; expected range $90,000.00 - $125,000.00.

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Business Line: Water | Business Group: DCS | Strategic Business Unit: West | Career Area: Digital & Engineering Technology | Work Location Model: Hybrid

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