Senior CAD Drafter I Energy

AECOM
Australia
Workplace: HybridContractFunction: Energy & Utilities OperationsExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Time management","Mentoring","Attention to quality"]

Lead CAD and drafting design activities for AECOM’s Energy team, producing high-standard energy project drawings across substations and related infrastructure. Coordinate design excellence with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring models, diagrams, schematics, and documentation meet specifications, quality, verification, and milestone requirements. Apply CAD tools and common data environments (AutoCAD, MicroStation, ProjectWise, Vault) and provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to support delivery and design standards.

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Senior CAD Drafter I Energy

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Job Summary

Lead CAD and drafting design activities for AECOM’s Energy team, producing high-standard energy project drawings across substations and related infrastructure. Coordinate design excellence with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring models, diagrams, schematics, and documentation meet specifications, quality, verification, and milestone requirements. Apply CAD tools and common data environments (AutoCAD, MicroStation, ProjectWise, Vault) and provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to support delivery and design standards.
Location: Australia
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: Energy & Utilities Operations
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Coordinate CAD and drafting design activities for energy projects, delivering design drawings to technical standards.
  • •Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure design excellence across substation layouts, equipment, set out drawings, single line diagrams, secondary schematics, and more.
  • •Review and contribute to design documentation, ensuring outputs meet project specifications and quality standards.
  • •Support, manage, and coordinate design milestone delivery, ensuring deliverables meet scope, verification, standards, timeframe, and budget considerations.
  • •Provide technical guidance, including mentoring and training on digital design tools and workflows across the wider Energy team.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Additional LeaveVolunteer LeaveFlex Holidays

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience delivering energy-related CAD designs across primary, substation, secondary, protection, or related projects.
  • •Experience developing concept designs to industry standards from scratch with minimum supervision.
  • •High-voltage design drafting experience, ideally with 5+ years, using Australian energy client design standards (Transgrid, Ausgrid, Powerlink, Energex).
  • •Highly proficient with core CAD packages including AutoCAD and MicroStation, and experience with common data environments such as ProjectWise EDMS, Autodesk Vault, or equivalent.
  • •Experience leading teams or demonstrating strong team leadership skills for CAD teams (advantage).
Experience:5+ yearsEnergyUtilitiesPowerRenewable energy
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationTime managementMentoringAttention to quality
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AutoCADMicroStationBently ProjectWiseProjectWise EDMSAutodesk VaultEnergex Autodesk VaultPowerlink Autodesk VaultAutodesk FormaTransgrid ProjectWise EDMS

Company Brief

AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure firm providing design, consulting, construction, and management services across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy sectors, delivering large-scale projects for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Civil Engineering
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 1990
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