CADD Manager

Job Description

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record's list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Own and maintain stable, standardized CAD environments across the firm, ensuring configurations are tested, documented, and production-ready before deployment
• Develop, maintain, and validate CAD workspaces, templates, libraries, and configuration files in alignment with approved firmwide standards
• Configure and maintain ProjectWise managed workspaces and integrations
• Lead testing, validation, and controlled rollout of software upgrades, service packs, and environment changes, minimizing disruption to project teams
• Serve as an escalation point for CAD-related issues impacting workspaces, standards, or multi-user workflows
• Enforce approved CAD standards through configuration, workspace controls, and environment setup
• Support migration of active projects to newer design software versions following established processes
• Document workspace configurations, upgrade testing results, known issues, and repeatable support procedures
• Collaborate with support to resolve systemic issues and reduce recurring support tickets
• Coordinate with design subject matter experts when standards interpretation or changes are required
• Assist with development of operational documentation, job aids, and internal knowledge resources

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

• Perform other related duties as assigned

Required Skills

• Strong people, communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work across support, IT, and discipline teams

Required Experience

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in engineering, drafting, information technology, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of total related professional experience that includes design, CADD, or other related experience
• 4 years of hands-on experience supporting and maintaining CAD environments for transportation, civil, or infrastructure projects
• Working knowledge of Bentley OpenX applications, including OpenRoads Designer
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and validating CAD workspaces and templates
• Experience participating in or leading software upgrade testing and validation efforts
• Experience supporting multi-office or enterprise CAD environments

Qualifications Preferred

• Prior experience in a CADD Manager or senior CAD support role within a consulting engineering environment
• Experience supporting both Bentley and Autodesk CAD ecosystems
• Experience with ProjectWise workspace configuration and administration
• Familiarity with transportation or DOT-related CAD standards and workflows
• Experience with automation, scripting, or configuration management tools used to support CAD environments

Working Conditions

Work is performed within a general office environment 95% of the time. Work is generally sedentary in nature, but may require occasional standing and walking. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. within the office environment. Work location is flexible.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.