CAD Technician

Here at Susquehanna Civil, we get it. We support the flexibility required for you to do your best work and live your best life. As a multi-service, women-owned civil engineering, surveying, and environmental consulting firm, we embrace a hybrid work environment, a flexible and people-centered culture with a small-company feel. We work hard to maintain a strong benefits package to support our team members' overall happiness and well-being.

Working at Susquehanna Civil, you will have joined a growth and team-oriented group where your values of integrity, quality, care, and responsiveness will be highly regarded, as they are also our core values. We strive to live out our values and believe it is essential for maintaining an inclusive, highly collaborative, fun, yet respectful workplace.

As a small to mid-size company, we have the opportunity to provide you with a greater variety of hands-on experiences to be a more well-rounded professional. You are more than just a number to us, and we believe in empowering team members to contribute and support positive and healthy changes as a growing company.

When you join Susquehanna Civil, you will connect and collaborate with not just your immediate team members but also get to know all of us because of our team-oriented culture. We have monthly engagement activities and events to get together, and support giving back to our community and supporting our colleagues when they need it most through our Benevolence Fund. Does this type of work environment sound of interest to you? Feel free to connect with any of us to review the job opportunity below, and send your resume and cover letter to careers@sqcivil.com.

Job Description

The CADD Technician plays an essential role in supporting PennDOT Utility Coordination projects. This position is responsible for preparing and updating utility maps, revising drawings, and collaborating with project managers, engineers, and utility coordinators to resolve utility-related challenges on highway projects. The CADD Technician ensures all deliverables comply with PennDOT and Pennsylvania Turnpike standards and upholds the company's core values in a collaborative work setting.

Key Responsibilities

Below are the key responsibilities for this role:

• Develop and maintain CADD files for utility coordination projects, including 2D mapping and creating 3D utility models to support PennDOT and Pennsylvania Turnpike requirements.
• Revise utility mapping based on survey results, utility provided plans & subsurface utility engineering results.
• Coordinate activities within PA One Call’s Coordinate PA application, accurately entering and communicating project information to stakeholders.
• Participate in utility field views and document meeting minutes for utility coordination meetings to support project communication.
• Prepare utility verification plans, conflict plans, and subsurface utility engineering recommendation plans.
• Identify conflicts between PennDOT projects and existing utilities.
• Draft real property interest documents and perform deed research to locate easement documents related to utility property interests.

Skills and Qualifications

Below are the skills, experience, and certifications required and preferred for this position:

• Education: Technical School Graduate or equivalent experience in civil engineering, surveying, or utility coordination.
• Professional License: Valid Driver’s License required; CADD certification preferred.
• Experience: Entry Level
• Ability to interpret spatial relationships between 2D and 3D objects.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills for working effectively with project managers, engineers, and utility coordinators.
• Capacity to work independently, manage time efficiently, and apply critical thinking to solve utility mapping and coordination challenges.
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and other standard office applications.
• Experience with MicroStation CAD, Inroads, Bentley ORD, or similar software used for utility coordination and mapping.
• Mathematical and analytical skills for interpreting survey and utility data.
• Competence in reading and interpreting maps, highway plans, and utility conflict plans, including drafting utilities provided by owners into project base mapping.

If you are interested in contributing to the development of safe and high-quality infrastructure and meet the qualifications above, please send your resume and cover letter to careers@sqcivil.com.

Additional Information:

The rate of compensation offered for this full-time position will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. Working conditions and physical demands for this role include the ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing, the ability to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, viewing a computer terminal, and reading, the ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time, and sufficient manual skill for the operation of a PC keyboard and other standard office equipment.

With our steady backlog, it is a great time to join Susquehanna Civil! When you join our team, you’ll get more than just a job – it’s a home. People want to know you here – people care. You will have flexibility, high-value benefits, and the opportunity to gain greater, well-rounded professional experience with our firm.

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