Drafting & Design Tech

Description

**Location: Edmonton, AB.**

**Status**: Permanent, Full Time with Benefits

**Schedule**: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

**About ATS Traffic**:
ATS Traffic is a family-owned business that has been getting people home safely since 1966. We provide traffic control, on-street services and signage products and services across Canada, currently operating out of offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Kamloops, Langley, Winnipeg, Brandon and Mississauga.

- **Do What’s Right**
- **Our People Matter**
- **Trust Through Teamwork**
- **Striving for Excellence**

**About the Position**:
ATS Traffic is looking for a Drafting and Design Technician to join our team This position will be responsible for designing and drafting traffic control drawings for projects throughout Canada, such as temporary work zones and detours. This role will also create Traffic Accommodation Strategies for internal and external clients.

**Responsibilities**:

- Using AutoCAD to draft 2D based traffic plans, supervise and assist other AutoCAD users
- Utilize MS Word to create written strategies and technical reports for customers
- Collaborate with engineers to complete professionally sealed drawings
- Create temporary traffic control strategies and other reports as required; work with different departments within ATS Traffic for tenders, job planning and quoting
- Build and maintain a rapport with the general contractors and road governing authorities
- Effectively communicate with client project managers and other discipline leads regarding the design, design changes, models, etc.
- Research, review and implement methods, systems and procedures that add value to engineering service’s final products;
- Finish and duplicate drawings and documentation packages, according to required mediums and specifications for reproduction;

**Qualifications**:

- Intermediate experience using AutoCAD designing and drafting experience.
- Knowledge of vehicle tracking and Google Earth is an asset.
- Understanding of temporary work zone designs construction phasing is an asset.
- Exceptional working knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and Outlook.

**Why Choose ATS Traffic?**:
We have always been a family-owned business. When you join ATS, you aren’t just a number: people remember your name and treat you like one of the family You'll be working with a team you can trust, and you'll be excited to come in on Monday morning.

Other perks include:

- **3 Weeks Paid Vacation**
- **Health Spending Account and Wellness Account**
- **RRSP Contribution Program**
- **Regular company events like barbecues and holiday parties**

**Experience**: Required

- Experience with Microsoft Office and Windows operation system
- Experience with AutoCAD

Preferred

- Good knowledge of Metro streets and AB Road network

**Education**: Preferred

- Technical/other training or better in Construction Engineering
- Technical/other training or better in Design and Technical Production or related field

**Behaviors**: Required

- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Preferred

- Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
- Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking

**Motivations**: Preferred

- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
- Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks