CAD Technician in Southampton

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team at UHS Estates Ltd (UEL). Please refer to the detailed job description below for more information about the role.

Main duties of the job

Are you looking for a varied and interesting full-time role with useful "client-side" experience? We are looking for a CAD Technician to join the UHS Estates Limited Building Information Team to help manage, maintain and operate an AutoCAD / ArchiCAD based system covering the Trust’s properties and associated services. Based at UHS day-to-day, you will update the Trust’s records by capturing, collating, editing and maintaining our "as built" record information into a single CAD ‘model’ for each building. Tracking changes made through our Capital Development or Estate Maintenance programmes, you will be surveying rooms, wards, plant rooms or whole buildings to validate documented information and updating Space Plans.

As part of a team you will ensure the UEL mechanical, electrical, building and fire safety drawings are maintained and updated when projects have been completed, helping to keep our staff and patients safe. You may produce feasibility drawings for new works including associated information i.e. graphical detail and systems schedule as designed by others, and prepare site plans as required by the Trust solicitors for HM Land Registry. Once you have gained some experience, you will provide technical support to UEL and Trust's annual returns for space utilisation and services information including updating the Planon facilities management system as well as be an integral part of developing our Building Information Modelling (BIM) system and associated asset data.

Working for our organisation UHS Estates Limited (UEL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). The company is responsible for the design and construction of new buildings, and the ongoing provision of services, including estates maintenance, soft facilities management and the management of equipment, consumables and materials, in support of one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England.

Employee Benefits:

• NHS terms of service and annual leave
• Access to an employee benefits platform offering discounts on groceries, high street shopping, family outings, holidays, and more

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a qualified CAD Technician, you will work as part of a specialist team delivering accurate and meaningful graphical information to the Estates, Facilities and Capital Development Department (EFCD), and wider UHS team (clinical & non-clinical), thereby ensuring patient and staff safety throughout the Hospital. Our data sources are many and varied. From handwritten annotation to 3D BIM data delivered to recognised standards (PAS1192 and BS EN ISO19650), the role requires you to interrogate the data, seek clarification from our teams and deliver high quality results in a timely manner.

We expect you to be competent in the use of day-to-day supporting technologies, such as SharePoint and Office365, but also adept with specialist software for the management of people, places and data. In particular, we use Autodesk products (AutoCAD, AEC), with opportunities to learn Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Planon and other facilities management/work management systems. You will be expected to undertake regular mandatory training for your own safety, and that of our patients and staff. We support the development of skills, providing in-house and external training to further your ambitions and enable your competencies. UHS is a teaching hospital which provides many opportunities for relevant personal development.

Person specification

Qualifications, knowledge and experience

• City and Guilds level 3 in CAD software operation
• Practical working experience using CAD systems
• Training in AutoCAD
• Experience of AutoCAD system and software operation
• Experience of managing asset and other safety-critical data
• Ability to use various computer systems and software, including high-end CAD software requiring good hand-eye coordination and fine motor control
• Attention to detail and methodical approach to the layering and classification of CAD information
• Team-player in a small team
• Ability to work under pressure
• Graphisoft-approved training for ArchiCAD

Trust Values

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.