CAD Technician
TRANT Engineering
Total years of experience :38 years, 10 Months
As a CAD technician I work within a dynamic team environment of design engineers to develop project design drawing requirements, to assure the completion of design packages necessary for the construction of pipeline, compressor and measurement/regulator facilities. at the direction of senior designers/engineers I Develop 2D AutoCAD schematic diagrams (P&ID’s, isometrics) Create 3D AutoCAD equipment and piping models for use in the overall project model develop orthographic drawings from 3D models (plans, sections, & details) Adhere to a variety of CAD standards
This life-saving service relies on the funds generated by our supporters. I play an important role in beginning to build a lasting relationship with our supporters. In this important role I will be using my customer service skills, team work and telephone skills to welcome our new supporters in to the RNLI. The position requires a person who is confident making outbound telephone calls, using a computer system to enter information, with good attention to detail and high levels of customer service.
Catering Assistant (Temporary Position)
My duties are to provide an efficient and effective service to customers, understanding their needs and requirements, working to exceed these wherever possible. Ensure food hygiene and health and safety regulations are adhered to at all times. To demonstrate a positive, enthusiastic, committed and flexible attitude towards customers and other team members, recognising the importance and benefits of effective team working. Deliver customer service in line with ‘best practice’. Ensure compliance to relevant policies. Provide point of contact for customer enquiries, dealing with these through to a successful outcome. Provide assistance to customers should an incident occur, seeking guidance in line with company policies. Take responsibility for own product area, ensure this and product is maintained in line with company ‘best practice’ and current Health & Safety legislation. Merchandise product efficiently and effectively in order to maximise sales. Undertake and achieve company funded industry recognised Food Hygiene qualification. To maintain housekeeping standards, by Cleaning of the kitchen, its surrounds and equipment General kitchen duties eg washing up, Cleaning of dining furniture Preparation of the dining area, including the erection and dismantling of dining furniture. Carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall function of the job. Attend staff meetings and training as required. To maintain a good level of personal presentation at all times. Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job, as requested by the Managing Director / Store Manager / General Manager / Line Manager.
March 12 - Design Engineer
DDC Dolphin (Infection Prevention)
My duties are as follows, I Currently involved in the design, research and manufacture of a wide range of macerators for the use in infection prevention, these machines are sold to hospitals and nursing homes. My duties included the set up of a cad suit using an Autodesk Inventor 2013 system, Creating Part files and assembly files with full bill of material lists using customer iproperties and ilogic rules, maintain this area and manage the cad room and CAD data.
April 08 - March 12 Senior AutoCAD Technician
Cold Service (Ringwood) (www.coldservice.co.uk)
My duties, preparing Shop floor Layouts from the architect, updating them to our standards and layouts. These include Basement, Ground Floor, First Floor (Mezzanine) & Roof, these layouts include refrigeration position, cold room, locations and plant area. Refrigeration layouts include setting out dimensions and notes for any conflicting areas. Create Services layouts indicating pipe work/electrical routes and builders notes. Also Piping Isometric Schematics and updating Existing Layouts. Creating Existing and Proposed Overlays as a quick reference to changes. Alarm Identification Drawings Phasing Drawings "As Installed" / "As Built" Layouts. Other Duties include, Print jobs and general paper folding issuing drawings via hard copy and email, uploading and downloading drawings to and from web sites. Assist with upkeep of the block library; ensure all drawings are stored in appropriate databases.
(Reason for leaving: most large engineering companies folded in the midlands after which I started looking for work in other areas, now after some time would like to get back into design and engineering as the work starts to recover in the UK.)
May 06 - April 08 PROJECT FIRST (Milton Keynes) (www.project1st.com)
My duties are as follows Drawing Shop floor Layouts, Roof Plant Layouts, Services layout and indicating pipe work/electrical routes and builders notes Piping Isometric Schematics and updating Existing Layouts creating Existing and Proposed Overlays Alarm Identification Drawings Phasing Drawings "As Installed" / "As Built" Layouts. Other Duties include, Print jobs and general paper folding issuing drawings via hard copy and email Uploading and downloading drawings to and from web sites Assist with upkeep of existing block library Ensure all drawings are stored in appropriate databases.
(Reason for leaving: I was head hunted and found by current employer, offering better salary and career advancement.)
Dec05 May06 Contract work
Oct05 - Dec05 DONCASTERS STERLING
Technical Support Engineer (www.doncasters.com)
This role involved me ordering tooling as and when required to existing drawing issues. My duties also involved me converting old hand drawn drawings to cad (electronic) format, I was also sent on a course to program and operate the Mitutoyo measuring machine where I gained a certificate for geopak L1 CNC basic.
(Reason for leaving: the position was closed, after a short time it was realised there was insufficient work with in the role to keep one person busy 5 days a week. There was no other position within the company so it was decided not to keep me on.)
July05 - Oct05 PCWORLD (All One Team) Part time (www.pcworld.co.uk)
My duties within the all one team involved talking to the customer and giving advice on products purchased within the store, Computer maintenance and upgrade this role covers a wide range of duties. Due to the nature of this role I was required to have good communication skills, as I was needed to communicate with customers on a daily basis. This was a part time position until such time as a full time job was available.
(Reason for leaving: this was to be a part time position, until such a time that I could find a position that best matched my skills.)
Jun05 - July05 Out of work
Sept04 - june05 Scie-Plas (Scientific) Part of Biochrom Group of Companies, Southam
(www.scie-plas.co.uk)
At Scie-Plas Ltd, I was involved in the design, research and manufacture of a wide range of Electrophoresis products, Horizontal and Vertical Gel Units, blotters, together with all the appropriate accessories. And also full range of Radiation Protection equipment and accessories. My duties included the set up a cad suit using an AutoCad system, maintain this area and manage the cad room. My job also involved plastic fabrication work. Specialising in products fabricated and machined from various plastic materials, including foam PVC, silicon acrylic, PETG, PVC and polycarbonate, as well as all engineering plastics. All designs are created to customer requirements. My main task was understand what the customer requires, this was by telephone call or in person, using just a sketch and transferring the sketch or information to AutoCad and producing a fully working model plus 2D drawing for manufacture. I would follow all my designs from customer requirements, from basic concept or sketch then on into design. This also includes one off's where necessary for checking, and then a final inspection. Before packing and sending to the customer. Due to the nature of this role I was required to have good communication skills as I am needed to communicate with customers. On a daily basis, reason for leaving I was made redundant. The company had a few financial problems.
(Reason for leaving: made redundant after a large International company (Biochrom) Bought out Scie-Plas and moved to Cambridge, no one at the time was given a relocation package.)
Feb 95 - Sept 04 Design Services (Engineering) Ltd, Nuneaton (www.deisgnservicesltd.co.uk)
Assistant IT Manager/ Design Engineer
My task was to design and detail jig and fixtures. All designs were done using AutoCad; these were all modelled up in model space using solids and some surfacing. All the detail work such as dimensioning and BOM, were all created in AutoCad, all designs were created to customer requirements using panel data sent to us from the customer. This was in the form of model surfaces. There were times when I was asked to modify the surface model. I followed my designs from customer requirements, through to concept then on into design. Through manufacture, then finally installation. I set up a computer system at DSE and installed a network. Part of my job function was to build all the new PC's and install all the appropriate operating systems. This role also required me to communicate with the customer as I needed to know the format of the data being sent to us. I was an In house trainer for AutoCad software. I supervised apprentices with their college work.
(Reason for leaving: the company experienced financial difficulty after losing several very large contracts within the automotive industry and was told there could be redundancies.)
Oct 94 to Feb 95 Warwickshire County Council, Property Services
AutoCAD Operator (Contract Role)
Cleaning and preparing drawings for Mainframe computer system, modifying old drawings and creating new drawings, using AutoCAD R12 and GTX Raster Cad V2.
(Reason for leaving: contract end.)
8-94 to 10-94 Contract work
10-90 to 8-94 FREUDENBERG ENGINEERING
LUTTERWORTH
Senior Jig & Tool Design Draughtsman (www.freudenberg.com)
Design all jig and fixtures, this consisted of multiple drill head machines and multiple tapping machines, also design of chuck jaws tool holders for Acuma 4 axis machines. Involved with the design of fixtures for press tooling. Other duties where to maintain and up date Cad network, and see to the day to day duties of running a Cad room.
(Reason for leaving: The Company closed its UK offices and moved back to Germany.)
08-88 to 10-90 MACHSIZE
WARWICK
DESIGN DRAUGHTSMAN
This was a precision engineering company, my tasks where to design gauge equipment to a high level of precision. I was asked to design and detail gauge tooling for the use in automotive, aerospace and railway. I was also asked to design PCB's from schematic layouts.
(Reason for leaving: offered better career prospects and further my experience within
The drawing office and design.)
02-86 to 08-88 DYTECNA MALVERN (www.dytecna.com)
M.O.D
DESIGN DRAUGHTSMAN
The work I was involved in at this company was varied, the tasks I was asked to do where to design jig and fixtures, design metal containers from machined steel blocks, aluminium, steel plate or off the shelf readymade boxes. These boxes where designed to hold printed circuit boards and electrical components of varying sizes. There were also connectors and connection units between vehicles and vehicle mechanical/electrical installation works. The vehicles in question MOD Haglands and tanks. As well as boxes and PCB design work. I was involved in some missile guidance systems. There was mounting plates and press tooling design work, and also veering sizes of cabling looms. I was also asked to digitize using AutoCad as a type of sketching tool using what is known as a tablet and puck.
(Reason for leaving: relocate back to Home County.)
Qualifications and Training
1985 - 1986 Rugby Design
HNC General Purpose Machine Design
City & Guilds - Computer Management Modules; AutoCAD, Micro Electronics, Advanced CAD Systems Management, Three Dimensional Design, AutoCAD Training, and Computer Training.
Sept 81 - Jul 84 Henley College of Further Education
Sept 76 - 81 Wolston High School, Warwickshire 'O' Levels - Technical Drawing, Maths, English, Art and IT Nov 05 Geopak L1 cnc basic (cmm operator) Experience in the use of AutoCAD 1.8 (dos) AutoCAD 2.6 (dos) AutoCAD 2.8 (dos) AutoCAD 10 AutoCAD 11 AutoCAD 12 (Unix) AutoCAD 2000 AutoCAD 2005 AutoCAD 2006 AutoCAD 2009 AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop 6 Inventor version 6 Inventor Version 11 Inventor Version 12 Inventor Version 13 PowerPoint Excel Word Outlook CMM Catia 5 (pc based) Ideas Paper to CAD conversion (GTX Raster CAD)
