Produces preliminary and final engineering drawings for rail, transit, transportation, bridge, structure, and track projects. Maintains CAD standards, templates, and best practices; integrates survey and GIS data; performs quality-control reviews; coordinates with engineers and project managers; resolves design issues; and supports project schedules. The role also leads CAD production on complex projects and mentors junior designers while ensuring compliance with client, company, and DOT standards.
Your career can help move an industry forward. At Michael Baker, our rail and transit professionals are solving some of transportation’s most important challenges, modernizing aging infrastructure, improving safety and reliability, increasing capacity, and delivering the next generation of passenger and freight rail systems.
Join a nationwide team where your ideas, expertise and ambition can make an impact. You’ll collaborate across disciplines, apply innovative technologies, and work on meaningful projects from planning and design through program management and construction.
Whether you’re an experienced industry leader or building the next chapter of your career, Michael Baker offers the opportunity to grow, lead and help shape the future of rail and transit.
What We Are Looking For
Michael Baker is seeking a highly experienced CAD Designer/Technician with progressive design and drafting experience supporting civil engineering and infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will work with the rail group design engineers to produce plans for structure and track disciplines in railway engineering projects. You will leverage your knowledge and skills to prepare preliminary and final drawings, layouts, maps, charts, and designs within MicroStation, OpenBridge Modeler, OpenRoads Designer (optional) and Autodesk CADD platforms that meet our company, project and client CAD standards.
This position will work out of one of our Midwest offices, including Cleveland, Omaha, Des Moines or Chicago, on a hybrid basis. Exceptional candidates may be considered for full-time remote work.
What You’ll Do
- Independently produce engineering drawings for preliminary and final plan sets in accordance with established design standards, client standards and project requirements.
- Create and update existing drawings as new information becomes available.
- Prepare and maintain CAD standards, templates, and best practices across platforms
- Use technical manuals to ensure compliance with company policies, client policies and applicable standards for each project.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate design elements, resolve conflicts & ensure accurate designs plans.
- Review and analyze drawings for errors, inconsistencies, and compliance with project requirements.
- Stay Updated with Technology: Keep up-to-date with the latest CAD technology trends and advancements.
- Mentor and support junior CAD designers and technicians, providing technical guidance and training
- Integrate survey data, GIS data, and engineering calculations into design drawings
- Manage multiple assignments while meeting project schedules and deadlines
- Coordinate with engineers and project managers to resolve design issues and optimize constructability
- Lead CAD production efforts for large and complex projects, ensuring adherence to company standards, client requirements, and DOT criteria
- Perform quality control (QC) reviews of CAD files and construction documents to ensure accuracy and completeness
What You Need To Succeed
- High School, GED, certification course or two-year technical degree.
- 8+ years of CADD design. Experience within Transportation Engineering, inclusive of structural detailing and mentoring of staff.
- Proficiency with AutoCAD, OpenRoads Designer and MicroStation software required, Civil 3D a plus.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365.
- CADD experience on transportation and bridge projects a plus.
- Use Microsoft Teams collaboration software
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Bluebeam
- Ability to work independently in a hybrid office/remote work environment
Compensation
The approximate compensation range for this position is $35-$47 per hour. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
About UsMichael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.
Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
We Make a Difference.
Michael Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Michael Baker International provides equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. Michael Baker International maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status.
EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.
*It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
*There is no current application deadline. Michael Baker will continue to accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.
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