Senior CAD Drafter I Energy

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AECOM’s Senior CAD Drafter I Energy role leads CAD and drafting within the Energy team, based in Sydney or Brisbane, working on projects from primary and substation to transmission and civil structures, delivering compliant high quality drawings and models while mentoring junior drafters. You should be proficient in AutoCAD and MicroStation, familiar with common data environments such as ProjectWise or Autodesk Vault, and comfortable coordinating with engineers and remote teams, meeting scope and timelines. Ideally 5+ years HV experience and knowledge of Australian standards; highlight leadership, collaboration and a proven delivery track record. Flexible work and an inclusive culture await; apply early as roles may close ahead of time.

Company Description

Come and grow with us.

AECOM’s Energy practice provides a wide range of advisory, consulting and engineering design services to power and renewable energy clients. Our understanding of the wider energy system - the interconnection between generation, transmission and distribution, storage, and demand - enables us to deliver integrated solutions that support the transformation of next-generation energy infrastructure.

Actively leveraging our global network, we bring together multidisciplinary teams of engineers, planners and project managers to support major transmission and renewable energy projects shaping the future grid.

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Job Description

Lead the CAD and drafting design activities in this Senior CAD Drafter role in AECOM’s Energy team.  You will be working as part of an established design team, working across a broad range of energy project types, delivering leading design drawings to the highest technical standards. 

Based ideally in AECOM’s Brisbane or Sydney office, this role provides the scope to work across a range and variety of energy projects across primary, secondary, transmission line, civil, structural and others.  You will also have scope to develop your leadership abilities across project delivery and people leadership while ensuring design standards and drawing deliverables are met.

How you’ll make a difference

• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure design excellence covering design models and drawings for substation layouts, equipment and associated utilities, set out drawings, single line diagrams, secondary schematics and others.
• Working co-operatively with team members whilst liaising with engineers and drafters (both locally, throughout Australia, and international design teams) supporting the integration of design inputs and highest standards of technical design across projects.
• Contribute to design documentation, reviewing drawings and ensure outputs meet project specifications and quality standards.
• Support, manage and coordinate the delivery of design milestones, ensure deliverables meet scope, verification, standards, timeframe and budget considerations.
• Provide technical guidance and support to design team members, including mentoring and training on digital design tools and workflows, across the wider Energy team.
• Apply your common data environment (such as with Bently ProjectWise, or Autodesk Forma and others) and CAD abilities using AutoCAD and MicroStation.

Qualifications

To be successful in this Senior role, you will be an experienced CAD designer or CAD Team Leader, known for your abilities to work collaboratively across engineering disciplines, with varied design standards, and working with others to ensure delivery.   You will enjoy a challenge, be action focussed, display the ability to balance competing design time commitments.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

• Proven experience delivering energy related CAD designs across either (or all) primary, substation, secondary, protection or related projects.
• Experienced in developing concept designs to meet industry standards from scratch with minimum supervision, ensuring innovation and safety is at the forefront of all early discussions.
• Demonstrated experience in design drafting for High Voltage projects, ideally with 5+ years’ experience – working with Australian energy client (including Transgrid, Ausgrid, Powerlink and / or Energex) design standards is a significant advantage.
• Highly proficient with one or more core CAD packages (AutoCAD and MicroStation) with an understanding of common data environments (Transgrid ProjectWise EDMS, Powerlink Autodesk Vault, or Energex Autodesk Vault).
• Experience working collaboratively to build working relationships across multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating design inputs including with geographically and offshore based teams
• Strong understanding of design standards, quality requirements and project delivery timeframes while maintaining verification, quality standards and design excellence.
• Experience leading teams or team leadership skills for CAD teams is an advantage.
• A high-quality focus, and an ability to instil a similar approach across teams.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and time management skill set, working across competing project timeframes.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working with us

• Flexible work arrangements available, aligned with the market and client facing role requirements
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year         
• Volunteer and representation leave
• Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.