Here's a CAD Manager Job Description I wrote a couple years ago.
Ciao!
~Terry
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Responsibilities:
<>$ Oversee all aspects of Primary CAD Software Packages and CAD
Software additions
<>$ Develop, Implement and Maintain CAD Company Graphic Standards
<>$ Provide User Training– Hands-On, Seminars and Support including
Documentation and Intranet
<>$ Coordinate and Facilitate Projects CAD Documentation Set-ups with
Project Managers / Project Team
<>$ Coordinate and Facilitate CAD Drawings Collaboration between
Offices, Owners and Consultants
<>$ Develop, Implement and Maintain Company and Manufacturer Symbol
Libraries
<>$ Coordinate Hardware usage and maintenance; Coordinate with Strategic
Technology Plan
<>$ Maintain Training and Knowledge of CAD Technologies and Industry
Practices
<> Goals: <>
$ Optimize the effective and efficient usage of the CAD throughout the
company
$ Insure CAD Drawing Standards are consistent and quality control for
CAD Drawings
$ Increase accuracy and productivity and profitability throughout a
project and the company
$ Increase Knowledge and Abilities with CAD Software and CAD Technologies
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Gordon Price wrote:
> My old office has hired a new IT Manager with the intent that he also
> become the CAD Manager. He comes with strong IT skills, very basic
> AutoCAD R14 skills, and little or no knowledge of Architecture as a
> profession. I am putting together a list of topics that seem
> important, and I am wondering if anyone sees something important that
> I missed. To the extent that it makes a difference, the office is
> small (30 total, 25 architecture staff, 20 of them using CAD), VERY
> design oriented (libraries, museums, campus buildings), currently
> using a moderately customized AutoCAD 2005 and considering ADT or
> Revit. Anyway, here is my list as it stands, italics indicate topics
> more related to architecture than cad:
>
>
> 1. Architectural drawing types: Plan, Section, Elevation,
> relationships.
> 2. Line weight, pouche, graphic hierarchy.
> 3. Design and documentation process: PD, SD, DD, CD & CA phases,
> relationships to each other and CAD processes, intended audience
> for graphics, reuse of work in later phases and building lifecycle.
> 4. Output control: CTBs/STBs, PlotStyles, pltters, color, and
> relationships to line weight, screen, etc.
> 5. Base files and Sheet files: what is drawn where and why.
> 6. ModelSpace and PaperSpace: : what is drawn where and why,
> relationship to scale.
> 7. Scale: annotation scale, unit conversion scale, plot scale, view
> port scale.
> 8. Units: architectural, metric, unitless AutoCAD.
> 9. Blocks: what should be made into blocks, what should be included
> in blocks, how blocks are built (layer 0 issues, block
> orientation, etc.)
> 10. Xrefs: relationship to blocks, relationship to layers, reuse of
> drawn information (in house reuse as well as consultant reuse,
> implications of forced properties)
> 11. Dimension & text styles: relationship to scale, child DimStyles.
> 12. Office standards: implications for productivity, staff sharing,
> new hire training. Enforcement philosophy.
> 13. Customization: implications for productivity, relationship to
> standards enforcement, implications and opportunities for user
> customization, customization location and relationship to
> sharing, upgrades, etc.
>
> Reading List
>
> Architectural Graphics 4th Ed, Francis D. K. Ching
>
> Professional Practice of Architectural Detailing, Wakita & Linde
>
> Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings, Wakita & Linde
>
> CAD Manager’s Handbook, Grabowski
>
> Managing Autocad in the Design Firm, Vagts
>
> The Digital Architect, Sanders
>
>
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Gordon
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