Join a collaborative team at a company offering a family-like culture and work-life balance. If you combine industrial drawing skills with solid technical savvy and attention to detail, this position offers you some great opportunities. You will:

• Earn more and learn more than you would as a basic drafter: Our preference is that you have BIM/VDC experience, but as long as you have mastered Revit, we are willing to train you. You’ll gain a valuable understanding of how systems work together.
• Join a collaborative team working in the first phase of projects to deliver on one of our key value propositions: The virtual design process enables us to work quickly, efficiently and accurately.
• Join a company committed to innovation, even in areas where innovation is not expected; we are one of the top 10 mechanical contractors in Illinois, one of the top 50 in the Midwest, and one of the top 500 nationwide.
• Enjoy a family-oriented culture that stretches back four generations, including work-life balance and a great partnership between leadership and employees.

You will work onsite for now, but we will consider remote and flexible work arrangements once you have proven yourself.
Building the future with quality, innovation and safety. A&R Mechanical Contractors is a fourth generation, family-owned company with humble beginnings. Now, with 90 years of experience under our belt, we have an extensive suite of service and repair offerings in piping, ventilation, plumbing and civil engineering and construction. Our turn-key capabilities set A&R Mechanical apart from the competition. Our reputation for innovative solutions stems from extensive experience as well as significant investment in state-of-the-art technology and machinery.
Requirements

To be a good fit for the VDC Technician, you will have:

• 2 or 4-year degree in CAD related field is preferred.
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in the use and application of Revit for producing construction and fabrication drawings.
• Experienced in use of Revit Family Editor for creation/management of custom families.
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in the construction industry.
• Experience with mechanical systems design and fabrication, specifically ventilation duct, piping, and plumbing preferred.
• Competency in the use/application of AutoCAD/Navisworks.
• Experience with Revit Fabrication Products (CADMep, CAMduct)

Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills.
• The ability to exercise sound judgment in the decision-making process.
• A high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-based orientation.
• Self-motivation and the able to work independently and with the team.
• The ability to plan, prioritize, organize and manage needs on multiple projects.

The Role
You will join the Virtual Design and Construction Department, which includes a VDC Dept. Manager, Coordination Manager, another VDC Technician, and three Trade Content Developers (VDC Designers).
As part of the A&R Mechanical Contractors Virtual Design and Construction Department, the VDC Technician will assist in the creation of Shop Drawings, Hanger/Trimble Drawings, Penetration Drawings and related work. This position will be providing 3D design and BIM (Building Information Modeling) support to construction efforts, as well as drafting and modeling a variety of mechanical system elements, producing drawings, and extracting useful data from virtual building models. The VDC Technician will provide critical support to our in-house mechanical design efforts and the overall business by working with the VDC Manager/Designers to aid in the creation of content/deliverables with Revit as the main tool.
We take an interdisciplinary approach, and you will gather information from different subject matter experts. Content development can be a volume push, and at any given time you will support multiple projects – it will be up to you to balance priorities.

More specifically, you will:

• Create detailed drawings used for Shop Fabrication/Field
• Installation (Spool/Coordination/Layout).
• Create custom library components/equipment using Revit’s Family Editor.
• Error check completed work against construction documents.
• Model 3D solids from a VDC Dept. performed laser scan.
• Work with VDC Manager/Designers to extract model data for use in fabrication and construction.
• Update as-built drawings for final documentation of the project.

Why join us

Please refer the Job description for details