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Working within multidisciplinary engineering teams and supporting HVAC engineers, you will lead drafting activities, supervise other drafting technologists, and support the development and maintenance of HVAC CAD standards, best practices, and design automation tools.\nSkills and Responsibilities:\nResponsibilities:\nDevelop and prepare HVAC engineering designs and drawings from preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets, and other technical data.\nCreate building information models that digitally represent the physical and functional aspects of buildings and other engineering projects.\nOperate CAD and drafting workstations to prepare design sketches, complete documentation packages, and produce drawing sets.\nCheck and verify design drawings for compliance with specifications and design data.\nPrepare technical reports, tender documents, construction specifications, cost estimates, and material estimates.\nLead, supervise, and train HVAC drafting technologists, technicians, and drafters.\nLead the development and maintenance of HVAC CAD best practices and support the development and maintenance of mechanical design guidelines.\nDevelop and maintain CAD engineering processes and communicate innovative ideas for new functionality.\nManage design automation software projects.\nCollaborate with internal and external customers and information technology teams globally to maintain and develop CAD design automation software.\nIn addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. 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