Structural CAD Technician

London, England, United Kingdom

8/4/2025

What’s The Opportunity

We have an opportunity for a Revit Technician to join our experienced structural engineering discipline. In this role you will play an important role in strengthening our structural engineering team not only within the London office but throughout our company. You will play an important role on projects with an enviable client base; our team is currently delivering new building and refurbishment projects for schools, universities, airports, local authorities and residential developments.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Prepare and develop 3D structural Revit models and produce drawings, schedules, etc for the Ridge Structural Engineering in collaboration with other teams within Ridge.
• Work with other engineering technicians and engineers within the team to develop models and produce general arrangement drawings, sections and details for structures designed by the group.
• Collaborate with architects, building services engineers and other professionals both within Ridge and with outside companies to ensure that models, drawings, details, schedules, etc are coordinated and developed in accordance with the design programme for deliverables.
• Exercise the skill, care and judgement to be expected of an experienced engineering technician to ensure that structural engineering drawings for which you are responsible are complete, correctly detailed and free from error.
• Take responsibility for checking own work and work produced by others, including external consultants, sub-consultants and contractors, embracing drawings and associated production deliverables.
• Ensure that Ridge document management and QA procedures are complied with.
• Complete work to agreed timescales, programme and budgetary constraints.
• Supporting an Apprentice within the team to help develop their Revit and CAD skills.
  
  

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Experience as a Structural CAD/Revit Technician working within a Construction environment, ideally gained from a consultancy background.
• Proficient in the use of AutoCAD and Revit Structure Software.
• Building structure projects in the UK
• Experience of new build and refurbishment projects in structural steelwork, reinforced concrete, masonry, and timber
• Ability to estimate time required to prepare and complete drawings and to work to agreed deadlines.