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With offices throughout California and the Portland area, BKF has served transportation, water resources, land development, government, and federal clients for over 110 years.\nAt BKF, you’ll find a unique opportunity to grow your career with intention. Our culture values professional autonomy, innovation, and meaningful collaboration across offices. We are proud to be recognized with the Great Place to Work certification for the second year in a row.\nBKF is seeking a Bridge & Structures CADD Designer / Drafter to develop clear, accurate construction plans for bridges and other transportation, water, and land development structures. Working with bridge engineers and other disciplines, you will turn design concepts, calculations, sketches, and review comments into coordinated plan sets and, where appropriate, 3D models. Projects may include vehicular and pedestrian bridges, retaining walls, foundations, culverts, and related structural elements for Caltrans and local agency clients.\nResponsibilities\nPrepare and revise bridge and structural plans, elevations, sections, details, and schedules for preliminary design, PS&E, and construction support. Detail structural steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, foundations, bearings, joints, barriers, and retaining structures under the direction of engineers.\nDevelop sheet sets from roadway alignments, profiles, survey and utility base files, geotechnical information, engineer markups, and discipline models. Coordinate interfaces with roadway, drainage, utilities, traffic, geotechnical, and right of way teams.\nApply client and agency CADD standards, including Caltrans standards when applicable, to file organization, references, levels/layers, annotation, sheet layout, naming, and deliverables.\nCheck drawings for completeness, consistency, dimensions, references, and constructability; incorporate review comments and support quantity takeoffs and plan revisions.\nCreate or contribute to 3D bridge and structural models when project delivery calls for them; help generate model based views, sections, quantities, and presentation graphics.\nMaintain organized project files and coordinate drawing production, milestones, and quality reviews with engineers and other CADD staff. Support less experienced drafters as appropriate.\nRequirements\nAssociate of Science degree or higher in drafting, CADD, civil engineering technology, or a closely related technical field.\n5+ years of professional CADD experience, including substantial production of bridge or other transportation structural plans.\nDemonstrated proficiency in both Bentley MicroStation and Autodesk AutoCAD; experience working within transportation design environments such as OpenRoads Designer and/or Civil 3D.\nWorking knowledge of bridge plan conventions and steel and concrete structural detailing; ability to interpret engineering sketches, roadway geometry, survey information, and technical review comments.\nExperience producing coordinated plan sets to client or public agency standards, with strong attention to drawing quality and deadlines.\nClear communication skills and ability to work closely with licensed engineers and multidisciplinary project teams.\nPreferred qualifications\nDirect experience with Caltrans bridge or highway structure plan production, including applicable Caltrans CADD standards, standard plans and details, and PS&E delivery; experience with California cities or counties is also valuable.\nProficiency in Bentley OpenBridge Modeler / OpenBridge Designer, Autodesk Revit, and/or other bridge information modeling (BrIM/BIM for Infrastructure, BIM4I) workflows, including model to sheet production and multidisciplinary model coordination.\nAbility to create compelling 3D renderings, visualizations, or animations for proposals, alternatives analysis, public presentations, or project coordination.\nExperience with ProjectWise, Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM 360, Bluebeam Revu, and structured quality control workflows.\nPhysical Demands: Must be able to regularly talk, hear and operate a computer, keyboard and mouse and occasionally lift, pull/push and carry up to 20 pounds with accommodations.\nWork Conditions: Exposure to constant or intermittent sounds at a low or moderate level consistent with an office setting. Exposure to high-stress, fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. Travel to other BKF locations and client sites may be required.\nBenefits\nThe typical base salary range for this position is $71978.4 - $106048.8, annualized depending upon skills, experience, education, and geographical location. This is a salary position paid biweekly.\nCompetitive salaries, end of year bonuses, profit sharing, and 401k.\nGenerous paid time off packages.\n9 Paid Holidays.\nFlexible schedules.\nEducation reimbursement, Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations.\nBKF offers competitive and award-winning benefits and perks. To learn more click here. \nBKF Engineers provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.\nBKF Engineers does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and a specific solicitation for the position or other approved engagement request for the position with BKF Engineers, BKF Engineers reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. 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