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Senior CADD Technician

HNTB
Detroit, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/21/2026
**What We're Looking For** The time is right to join HNTB’s growing Design Build (DB) Organization! We are seeking candidates for a Design-Build Senior CADD Technician for fast-paced transportation infrastructure projects. The candidate should have experience with software, including Open Roads Designer, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D, with the ability to create precise and detailed drawings, communicate effectively, and manage their workload effectively. At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails performing non-routine and complex assignments at an advance proficiency level, involving responsibility for planning and conducting complete projects of varied scope. Assists the project management team in outlining objectives, requirements and design approaches. Responsible for gathering engineering or operational data from a variety of sources. **What You’ll Do:** Responsible for verifying the accuracy of drawings, compatibility of work across disciplines and for checking detail and quantity calculations. Calculates design data, prepares layouts, detailed specifications, estimates, reports, etc. Assists in preparing engineering studies and evaluations involved in the development of projects from initial concept to the design stage, with the assistance from the project engineer/architect. Attends project and pre-construction meetings and provides input to ensure proper policies, procedures, and specifications are followed. Responsible for resolving technical design problems that may include performing field investigation or inspections, detailed design work and data. Performs general administrative assistance by maintaining complex project plans. May develop documentation, prepare project management report and monitors accomplishments as related to targeted goals. Makes recommendations regarding process improvement for project delivery at the office level. Calculates quantities and performs engineering related computations. Performs other duties as assigned. **What You’ll Need:** Bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology or related field and 6 years of relevant experience, or Associate of Science in Drafting or Technical School or related and 8 years of relevant experience, or In lieu education, 10 years of relevant experience **What You'll Bring:** Ability to work effectively and participate in working relationships with clients and sub-contractors. Proficient in CADD design software such as GIS, 3D, Highway or Railroad design, Building design and Graphic Imaging. Proficient in the terminology and symbols used in survey notes, plans, shop drawings, aerial photographs, and maps related to a specific Engineering sub-type. **What We Prefer:** Open Roads Designer and Microstation CONNECT experience, MicroStation V8i, AutoCAD, Civil3D **Additional Information** Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. \#RN . Locations: Detroit, MI, East Lansing, MI (Lansing), Indianapolis, IN, Kansas City, MO, Kansas City, MO (KCI), Milwaukee, WI (East Wisconsin Avenue), Salt Lake City, UT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:_ _HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees._ **Job Type:** Regular **Full/Part Time:** Full time **Job Category:** Technical Group **ReqID:** R-29683

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