CAD Designer - Energy Parks

A DAY IN THE LIFE

As a CAD Designer supporting Energy Parks, you'll create and maintain engineering drawings that help bring integrated energy campuses to life. You'll work alongside electrical, civil, structural, and mechanical engineers to develop site layouts, utility infrastructure plans, substations, transmission systems, solar energy, wind energy, battery storage facilities, and data center support infrastructure. Your work will help transform complex engineering concepts into buildable designs that support the future of energy.

STEP INTO THE ROLE

• Supports estimating and engineering efforts with quantity takeoffs, drafting, modeling, and data analysis. Generates bid quantities and performs takeoffs for bid items. Communicates any discrepancies noticed in the plans and specifications to the estimators.
• Create and maintain detailed CAD drawings and design packages for utility-scale Energy Parks projects.
• Develop site layouts, electrical plans, civil drawings, equipment arrangements, and construction documentation.
• Creates plans and reviews and utilizes RFP documents/drawings that support both procurement and project teams.
• Assist with integrated energy campus designs that may include solar, wind, battery energy storage systems (BESS), gas generation facilities, substations, transmission infrastructure, and data center support systems.
• Overseas, organizes, and converts incoming CAD/GIS bid data for importing into Autodesk Civil3D or Map3D programs.
• Tracks and monitors design changes and additions/upgrades to all plans including communicating the scope of design changes to the procurement and project teams.
• Develops knowledge of financial impacts related to design with the goal of developing least cost designs that safely and efficiently satisfy design life requirements.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Minimum of a two-year technical degree in Drafting and Design – Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical.

WHAT SETS YOU APART

• Experience supporting integrated energy infrastructure projects that combine multiple technologies such as gas generation, battery energy storage systems (BESS), substations, transmission, renewable energy, and data center infrastructure.
• Utility-scale power generation experience, including combined cycle, gas turbine, or other dispatchable generation facilities.

HOW WE INVEST IN YOU

• Competitive pay
• 100% employer paid HDHP insurance premiums for employees
• 401(k) with company match
• HSA and FSA options
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Education Assistance (Tuition Reimbursement)
• Work/Life balance
• Employee/Family focused culture
• Gym on site
• And more!

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$26.41 - $36.32 Individual Compensation to be determined based on the applicant's applicable experience and qualifications balanced against internal equity.

 

WHO ARE WE? 

With more than 115 years of construction experience, the company has played a vital role in building America’s critical infrastructure, ranging from railroads and highways to dams and mines. Since 1997, Blattner has focused on renewable energy solutions and is responsible for some of the most significant solar, wind and storage projects in the U.S. Today, Blattner has installed more than 25% of America’s utility-scale wind, solar and energy storage capacity. Blattner Company is the parent company of Blattner Energy and D.H. Blattner & Sons, of which all are members of the Quanta Services family of companies. Company headquarters are in Avon, Minnesota. 

Blattner is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Blattner will not tolerate discrimination against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, physical disability, race, receipt of public assistance, sex, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This commitment governs all aspects of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff, termination, compensation, discipline, and access to benefits and training. Additionally, Blattner is committed, in accordance with applicable law, to making reasonable accommodations for job applicants and employees based on a qualifying disability, a sincerely held religious belief or practice, and for pregnancy, childbirth or related health conditions. Applicants and employees who feel they have experienced or witnessed discrimination or who wishes to request a reasonable accommodation should contact the Human Resources Department. Blattner prohibits retaliation against any individual for making a complaint under this policy, for opposing discrimination, for participating in an investigation pursuant to this policy, or for requesting a reasonable accommodation.