Senior CAD Technician – London

Company: BALFOUR BEATTY
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Location: London
Job Description:

About the role

Balfour Beatty Rail are recruiting for a Senior CAD Technician to come and join the team and work out of our London, Derby or Redhill offices as well as remotely (working within a Hybrid model). In this role the Senior CAD Technician will be supporting the design engineers in the preparation of Civil and Rail engineering models and drawings.

What you’ll be doing

  • Understand and comply with project and function‑specific standards and practices and tasks.
  • Assist in estimating timescales for specific tasks.
  • Assist in producing technical literature, enquiry documentation and reports.
  • Assist in training junior staff and directing contract/agency personnel & technicians with their duties.
  • Act safely and work to eliminate hazards at source.
  • Assist in compliance with drawing codes of practice and standards.
  • Work to ensure compliance with Network Rail and TfL drawing standards.

Who we’re looking for

  • Experienced Rail/Civil CAD Technician or similar industry.
  • Good technical background in engineering modelling and drawing ideally in the rail environment.
  • Experience with buildings and services drawings.
  • Good working knowledge of Microstation and Projectwise.
  • 3D capability necessary.
  • AutoCAD experience an advantage.
  • Civil 3D experience desirable.

Why join us?

Here are some of our key benefits:

  • Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
  • 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
  • Family‑friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
  • Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.

Commitment to Inclusive Hiring

Balfour Beatty is a Disability Confident Employer, committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We also encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. We are committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all.

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Posted: June 15th, 2026