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Trainee Junior CAD Engineer

🏢 APEX Engineering Solutions Ltd • 📍 Gainsborough, England • 🕒 2 days ago

Salary Range

£20,000 - £25,000

£1,667 - £2,083 / mo

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Location Base

Gainsborough, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

The Opportunity

A continued increase in work load has created an exciting new opportunity for a Trainee Junior CAD Engineer to join this leading well established EC&I contractor. The position will involve completing a variety of tasks to contribute towards the efficient running of the workshop on a day to day basis. Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering of jobs from customer specification to shop floor and to assist with sales and estimating.

The Position

Duties and Responsibilities:

Deal competently with incoming phone calls and e-mails from customers in a helpful and courteous manner whilst maintaining high levels of professionalism at all times.
Assist with the administration for existing customers.
Assist when required with preparing estimates and CAD drawings for customers.
Preparation of Workshop drawings and production schedules.
Collaboration and co-ordination of multiple design discipline models.
To carry out site visit and surveys where required related to the design/build of new or retro-fit control panels and systems.
To be responsible for the production and registration of drawings for production purposes, using AutoCAD software.
To produce parts lists and manuals as required by customers using Microsoft Word and Excel.
To be responsible for the procurement and specification of materials.
To be responsible where required to attend site during the commissioning phase of the supplied control panels and systems.
To produce detailed drawings, assembly drawings, construction/design drawings and bill of materials for metal fabrication, sheet metalwork, steelwork, pipework and custom machinery projects.
Update existing drawings and complete as built drawings, where required.
Preparing M&E drawings.
Amending drawings (including schematics) to Engineers mark-ups.
Able to comply and maintain company’s CAD standards and workflows.

The Person

Working knowledge of AutoCAD 2D drafting software is required, although not essential as full training will be provided.
Good IT skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Good levels of written and verbal communication. A desire to learn in a fast-moving environment.
Hands on Electrical/ Mechanical and technical skills, although not essential as full training will be provided.
An understanding of mechanical engineering and workshop fabrication & previous experience of working in an office.

Apex Resourcing Solutions is an employment agency acting on behalf of this company

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Working knowledge of AutoCAD 2D drafting software is required, although not essential as full training will be provided.
Good IT skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Good levels of written and verbal communication. A desire to learn in a fast-moving environment.
Hands on Electrical/ Mechanical and technical skills, although not essential as full training will be provided.
An understanding of mechanical engineering and workshop fabrication & previous experience of working in an office.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Deal competently with incoming phone calls and e-mails from customers in a helpful and courteous manner whilst maintaining high levels of professionalism at all times.
Assist with the administration for existing customers.
Assist when required with preparing estimates and CAD drawings for customers.
Preparation of Workshop drawings and production schedules.
Collaboration and co-ordination of multiple design discipline models.
To carry out site visit and surveys where required related to the design/build of new or retro-fit control panels and systems.
To be responsible for the production and registration of drawings for production purposes, using AutoCAD software.
To produce parts lists and manuals as required by customers using Microsoft Word and Excel.
To be responsible for the procurement and specification of materials.
To be responsible where required to attend site during the commissioning phase of the supplied control panels and systems.
To produce detailed drawings, assembly drawings, construction/design drawings and bill of materials for metal fabrication, sheet metalwork, steelwork, pipework and custom machinery projects.
Update existing drawings and complete as built drawings, where required.
Preparing M&E drawings.
Amending drawings (including schematics) to Engineers mark-ups.
Able to comply and maintain company’s CAD standards and workflows.