CAD Planner

Job Introduction

Sodexo Corporate Services are recruiting a CAD Planner to join our client site in Central London.

As CAD Planner, you will be responsible for the management of understanding, forecasting and implementing all physical facility requirements and related service needs within all 3 client site locations.

You will prepare complex drawings, diagrams, and documents using computer-aided design (CAD) software within the organization. This includes developing CAD files based on notes, sketches, engineering schematics, technical guides, vendor information, and so on.

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Role Responsibility

• Understand, forecast, and anticipate physical facility requirements and related service needs
• Able to articulate and convey the client’s vision, mission, goals, objectives and desired outcomes for portfolio Future State.
• Drives the collection, organization and interpretation of data related to Dublin facility requirements, physical or virtual space needs and business goals and objectives as they relate to the agreed upon planning cycle. 
• Document findings and conclusions based on data analysis and needs assessment.
• Communicates recommendations in both written reports and presentations and produce charts and diagrams for the visual display of quantitative and qualitative information.
• Organize and identify operational and functional relationships that pose physical and spatial impacts.
• Generate conceptual solutions that respond to Client’s spatial needs, physical planning constraints and corresponding IT, HR and compliance requirements.
• Verify information about Existing State, forecasted space demand and space supply for solutions relating to both legacy and new work environments.
• Develop project-level and portfolio-level solutions based on interpretation of the program data and preparation of recommendations.
• Apply knowledge to forecast space requirements based on verified existing space information, forecasted space supply/demand and growth projections.  Provide metrics around current and future space needs.
   

The Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architectural design, or computer science, or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
• Experience in the FM or construction industry.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills with the ability to analyse multiple sets of data and drive decision making in a problem solving atmosphere.
• Proven results and success in developing, planning, managing, and implementing workplace plans and space solutions within a dynamic corporate environment. Strong understanding of business and financial impacts to workplace options.
• Strong knowledge of system and CAD software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of architectural drafting standards, as well as blueprint and specification reading skills.
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws

Formal Education & Certification:

• Experience as a CAD operator, drafter, or technician. CAD applications (i.e. AutoCAD, LDD, etc.).
• Certifications in CAD related subjects

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process