CADD Designer / Drafter – Bridge & Structures

🔥 16 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $72k - $106k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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BKF Engineers

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

BKF Engineers is a civil engineering firm that has been providing inspired infrastructure solutions for over 100 years. Based in Oakland, CA, the company offers a wide range of engineering, surveying, and land planning services tailored for various clients including architects, developers, government agencies, and educational institutions. With over 500 staff across 15 offices in California, BKF Engineers specializes in projects such as corporate headquarters, healthcare facilities, transportation infrastructure, and residential developments, emphasizing sustainable design and innovative solutions.

📋 Description

• Prepare and revise bridge and structural plans, elevations, sections, details, and schedules for preliminary design, PS&E, and construction support. • Detail structural steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, foundations, bearings, joints, barriers, and retaining structures under the direction of engineers. • Develop sheet sets from roadway alignments, profiles, survey and utility base files, geotechnical information, engineer markups, and discipline models. • Coordinate interfaces with roadway, drainage, utilities, traffic, geotechnical, and right of way teams. • Apply client and agency CADD standards, including Caltrans standards when applicable, to file organization, references, levels/layers, annotation, sheet layout, naming, and deliverables. • Check drawings for completeness, consistency, dimensions, references, and constructability. • Incorporate review comments and support quantity takeoffs and plan revisions. • Create or contribute to 3D bridge and structural models when project delivery calls for them. • Help generate model-based views, sections, quantities, and presentation graphics. • Maintain organized project files and coordinate drawing production, milestones, and quality reviews with engineers and other CADD staff. • Support less experienced drafters as appropriate.

🎯 Requirements

• Associate of Science degree or higher in drafting, CADD, civil engineering technology, or a closely related technical field. • 5+ years of professional CADD experience, including substantial production of bridge or other transportation structural plans. • Demonstrated proficiency in both Bentley MicroStation and Autodesk AutoCAD; experience working within transportation design environments such as OpenRoads Designer and/or Civil 3D. • Working knowledge of bridge plan conventions and steel and concrete structural detailing; ability to interpret engineering sketches, roadway geometry, survey information, and technical review comments. • Experience producing coordinated plan sets to client or public agency standards, with strong attention to drawing quality and deadlines. • Clear communication skills and ability to work closely with licensed engineers and multidisciplinary project teams. • Preferred: Direct experience with Caltrans bridge or highway structure plan production, applicable Caltrans CADD standards, standard plans and details, and PS&E delivery; experience with California cities or counties. • Preferred: Proficiency in Bentley OpenBridge Modeler / OpenBridge Designer, Autodesk Revit, and/or other bridge information modeling workflows, including model-to-sheet production and multidisciplinary model coordination. • Preferred: Ability to create 3D renderings, visualizations, or animations. • Preferred: Experience with ProjectWise, Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM 360, Bluebeam Revu, and structured quality control workflows. • Must be able to regularly talk, hear, and operate a computer, keyboard, and mouse; occasionally lift, pull/push, and carry up to 20 pounds with accommodations. • Willingness/ability to travel to other BKF locations and client sites may be required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries • End of year bonuses • Profit sharing • 401k • Generous paid time off packages • 9 Paid Holidays • Flexible schedules • Education reimbursement • Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations • Competitive and award-winning benefits and perks