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CAD Technician - Process Pipework and Plant

Bournville
7 months ago
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CAD Technician - Process Pipework and Plant

Birmingham, B30 2PF

Monday - Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm

Long Term Contract or Temp to Perm

The company provides a variety of high-quality mechanical engineering services from process engineering and asset maintenance to feasibility, concept, design, manufacturing and installation. They understand the challenges faced by their clients and provide services that maximise performance and minimise disruption. In addition, their specialist facilities team offer a hybrid service covering maintenance regimes and asset registers, delivering proactive programmes that ensure leaner facilities management. With mechanical installation contracts ranging in value from a few thousand to many millions of pounds for clients including Nestle, Coors, BASF and Britvic, they have experience of completing complex mechanical projects spanning a range of industries including food and beverage, brewing and distilling, pharmaceutical and chemical and industrial. With this in mind this is an excellent opportunity for a CAD Technician - Process Pipework and Plant, to join the company's Birmingham office, supporting a major project in Bournville, Birmingham.

Duties

As a suitably qualified and experienced mechanical design engineer you will be working on a variety of projects associated with the food processing industry. With particular responsibility to produce piping layouts, mechanical design layouts and fabrication drawings for the manufacture of process pipe spools, vessels, tanks, enclosures, conveyors, access platforms, staircases, frames, guards and associated items as necessary and as required by the client.

About You

Based ideally in the West Midlands you will need to live within a commutable distance of B30 2PF.

Ideally, HNC/HND, Degree qualified or similar in Mechanical Engineering more importantly, you will need demonstrable experience of producing mechanical design layouts and fabrication drawings using AutoCAD 2D, 3D and AutoCAD Inventor, with a strong industrial engineering background.

Experience of AutoCAD 2D, 3D and AutoCAD Inventor is essential for this role.

Interested?

In return for your experience you will receive a salary up to £21.60 per hour or £45,000 per annum along with a range of benefits associated with a market leading organisation.

Please get in touch by sending your current CV and examples of 3D design layouts or calling David on (phone number removed) to discuss your application in more detail. This is an immediate start.

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