cad jobs
The Energy market provides many cad and draughting jobs for designers and draughters. There is scope to have a career in either contract or staff draughting and people with a multitude of cad packages are always being sought after.
Outwith your traditional Autocad drawing package, there are now a number of highly specialist 3D design and draughting tools ie solidworks, Pro-Engineer and inventor. Experience with these packages are highly desirable as it allows speed and greater scope to view projects before their built in their entirety.
High demand for Cad technician jobs
Draughters and cad technicians can find themselves exposed to a lot of unique components and equipment working in this industry. From equipment such as accommodation modules for staff on offshore platforms on the topside to subsea wellheads, risers and downhole tools. The demand for people with this knowledge is immense and many candidates find that it is extremely technical and interesting work to be involved with.
Career progression is available in abundance for those who work their way up learning about the equipment and learning to do general arrangement, manufacturing and fabrication drawings as they can often find themselves developing into more design related roles where they can get exposure to calculating the engineering principles and coming up with new modifications.
Draughting jobs offer excellent career opportunities
A number of colleges have specific courses in Cad and there are also specialist training companies that will train on the 3D packages that are utilised most frequently in the marketplace. Often this type of software is incorporated in university engineering courses, providing graduates with skills to develop their career in draughting.
Continue your search for energy jobs or contact your nearest Hays office to discuss our current Cad or draughting jobs local to you.
