CADRevit and Civil 3D Designer
Job Summary
R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited and Neegan Burnside Ltd. are expanding their regional business strategy across Manitoba and Northwest Ontario with offices in Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We serve a diverse range of municipal Indigenous and private sector clientsand were looking for a CAD / Revit and Civil 3D Designer to help us deliver exceptional infrastructure solutions.
What Youll Be Doing
Youll be a key contributor to our engineering design team producing high-quality drawings that support land development water/wastewater and municipal infrastructure projects. Youll work closely with engineers and project managers to bring designs to life and ensure our projects meet client expectations and technical standards in a fast-paced multi-project environment that values precision collaboration and strong team work ethic.
Key Responsibilities
- Create detailed engineering drawings including plan/profile views site plans and grading layouts.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across offices to compile complete drawing sets.
- Support senior engineers and project managers in preliminary and detailed design phases.
- Coordinate inputs from internal teams and external sub-consultants.
- Assist with quantity take-offs and design calculations.
- Provide field and office support during construction including responding to contractor inquiries.
- Contribute to project delivery that meets timelines budgets and quality benchmarks.
- Produce water and wastewater infrastructure drawings including plan and profile views site layouts pump station arrangements and process/mechanical schematics consistent with applicable municipal and provincial design standards.
- Manage concurrent drawing deliverables across multiple active projects; adapt priorities efficiently as project scopes and timelines evolve.
What You Bring
- Diploma in Civil/Environmental/Construction Management or Computer Drafting (AutoCAD/Civil 3D) or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 2 years of experience using Revit AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
- Strong design skills and a passion for precision and creativity.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 (Word Excel SharePoint) and PDF editing tools.
- Effective communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- High attention to detail and a commitment to ethical standards.
- Experience producing water and wastewater infrastructure drawings including process schematics process and instrumentation drawings mechanical/equipment arrangement drawings etc.
- A collaborative team-oriented approach suited to a fast-paced multi-project environment; able to manage competing priorities and deadlines while supporting colleagues across disciplines.
- CADD work samples for consideration of work quality.
Bonus Skills (Assets):
- Experience with municipal infrastructure design (vertical and horizontal).
- Familiarity with BIM and MicroStation is considered an asset.
- Exposure to project management and contract administration.
- Experience producing water and wastewater infrastructure drawings including plan/profile for mains and sewers and pump station and plant site plans.
What Success Looks Like
- You consistently produce accurate high-quality drawings that meet project requirements.
- You collaborate effectively across teams and disciplines to ensure smooth project delivery.
- You respond quickly and professionally to field inquiries and design adjustments.
- You contribute to a positive team culture and demonstrate initiative in learning and growth.
- You help us exceed client expectations through your technical expertise and dedication.
Why Choose Burnside Group of Companies
As a R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited / Neegan Burnside Ltd. employee you will become part of a supportive group of colleagues across the organization that work together to provide value and service to our clients while extending care to each other. We know that our employees are our greatest asset and thus we strive to provide a positive work/life balance.
Burnside has an over 50-year track record of building a great reputation both internally with their staff and externally with their clients as an established leader in quality engineering environmental project management and consulting services.
Becoming part of the Burnside team opens the door to a wide range of career development advancement mentorship and collaboration opportunities across our 12 office locations.
We offer a wide variety of opportunities for our staff geared to your comfort level in independence and interests. As an agile firm willing to consider a multitude of opportunities as presented by our long-term client base and in a number of emerging disciplines we are willing to work with you to set a meaningful career path for you.
We offer:
- A collaborative culture where friendship honesty and respect are part of our core values and practices
- Flexible working hours and office locations including hybrid working opportunities
- A competitive compensation and benefits package
- RRSP company matching plan
- Career growth and professional development opportunities
- Potential for performance-driven bonusing
- Active social committees
- A welcoming positive and inclusive work environment
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity in the workplace and we welcome resumes from all qualified candidates. Burnside will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the entire recruitment assessment and selection process as required. If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation during these processes please contact our Human Resources department.
RJ Burnside and Associates Limited and Neegan Burnside Ltd. Company Profiles
Founded in 1970 R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is a growing values-driven employee-owned multidiscipline Canadian engineering and environmental consulting firm with over 450 staff. Our consistent commitment to investing in technological advancements and training in addition to encouraging and promoting professional development has enabled our firm to meet our ongoing and stated goal of continual improvement.
Founded in 1999 Neegan Burnside Ltd. is a majority-Indigenous owned firm committed to working with Indigenous (First Nation Metis and Inuit) communities agencies and industries to meet their infrastructure development and economic goals while remaining sensitive to culture values and beliefs. We have completed over 1500 projects for more than 300 Indigenous communities and agencies throughout North America many of them repeat clients with whom we work to develop long term and meaningful relationships. We endeavor to provide opportunities with our organization for Indigenous staff as well as for community members in the projects we deliver.
Our Companies are uniquely integrated allowing us to coordinate and access resources across both firms. As a result we offer our clients expertise in many technical disciplines including but not limited to water and wastewater transportation planning and design land development stormwater management bridges and culverts building engineering and sciences municipal drainage municipal advisory services environmental planning and ecology hydrogeology air and noise asset management solid waste landscape architecture and well drilling & diagnostics.
Together we actively seek to develop relationships with a broad and diversified client base in the Public Private and Indigenous sectors. We work on a variety of projects throughout Canada with 11 office locations in Ontario and one in Manitoba.
We look forward to considering you as a part of our team!
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About Company
RJ Burnside is a progressive Canadian and International engineering and environmental consulting company. Learn more about our team and services.