CADD Operator

AFO is looking for a CADD Operator I to work in US Air Force Academy, Colorado. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

• Prepares drawings for an entire project or a portion of a project with independent responsibility for completion. Works as an apprentice designer with some degree of responsibility for content and/or from engineers’ sketches, marked up prints, and verbal instructions. Translates ideas, rough sketches, specifications, and calculations of engineers and architects into complete and accurate working drawings for use in structure and system maintenance, repair, or new construction.
• Provides CADD drafting and plotting services to internal and external customers of Engineering Flight. Communicates with customers on all job requests and CADD-related requirements. Locates reference material and possesses knowledge of plotter operations.
• Prepares drawings for major contractual requirements utilizing software and associated equipment to prepare sets or groups of drawings for new construction, modification, alteration, or renovation of base facilities.
• Maintains and updates as-built drawings and ongoing in-house projects. Takes action to ensure that information on drawings submitted as “as built” for projects are made available in appropriate folders on network server. Research original drawings and extracts record drawings from electronic files and updates file system for new inputs.
• Possess multi-disciplinary organizational skills made necessary by high degree of interaction with various operating groups. Maintains electronic copies of all as built and new designs on network server in appropriate folders. Follows Tri-Service standards for file naming and CADD leveling conventions for the General, Civil/Site, Utilities, Structural, Architectural, Mechanical and Electrical for sheet files and all model types.
• For Facility Surveys, may serve as a member of the Building Measurement Team (BMT) during Facility Space Allocation Survey (FSAS) by collecting data required to revise the floor plan including measurements. Notifies Engineering technicians and BMT Lead of space allocation changes for the revision of the Space Utilization Data Set (SUDS, or S-Files) as required.

• This role may require that company vehicles are driven.
• Must be a U.S. Citizenship.
• Knowledge of symbols, terminology, and accepted standards used in engineering drawings.
• Knowledge of the equipment, facilities, and systems of civil, mechanical, electrical, and architectural engineering disciplines using CADD software to accomplish assignments.
• Skill in maintaining and operating reproduction and plotting machines.
• Ability to prepare original and complex drawings that are neat, accurate, appropriately dimensioned, and logically arranged. Knowledge of methods and techniques of drafting, including the ability to print neatly and legibly.

• Familiar with U.S. Air Force procedures, programs, methods, regulations, and resources.

Pay Range: $34.67/hour

Benefits: CBA - The benefits and leave offered will be as defined under the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement.