Amey
Senior CAD Technician
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Location: Glasgow/Edinburgh
Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities. Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future. Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Document Controller/Archivist/Information Officer to join our team in Scotland. You will play a key role in preserving, structuring, and digitising technical records and historical data to support both operational delivery and strategic planning.
This role is critical to supporting requirements across both Network Bridges and Major Bridge Structures. You will play a key role in locating existing records, preserving, structuring, and digitising technical records and historical data to support both operational delivery and strategic planning.
Amey manages both the Southwest and Northeast Trunk Road Network Management contracts, with the Southwest being awarded in 2020 and the Northeast in 2022. These are 8-year contracts, extendable up to 12 years. In addition to these long-term contracts, we also have a diverse portfolio of major roads, bridges and transportation and civil design projects with Transport Scotland, Local Authorities, and established contractors across the country.
These long-term contracts provide excellent opportunities for technical, engineering, and professional design staff at all stages of their careers to be involved in some of the most exciting and challenging engineering projects associated with Scotland’s arterial road network.
The role
- To establish a structured, standardised, and accessible archive of bridge-related asset records for both Network Bridge Structures and Major Bridge Structures, supporting Transport Scotland’s operational and strategic needs.
- Develop and maintain structured archives for infrastructure projects, including drawings, reports, assessments, and correspondence.
- Ensure compliance with internal and external data governance and archiving standards.
- Locate, retrieve and organise historical records and data to support ongoing and future works.
- Collaborate with digital transformation teams to migrate legacy records into modern platforms.
- Provide training and guidance to project teams on document handling and archiving protocols.
- Contribute to community benefit reporting and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Assess and digitise records from various sources, including hard drives, CDs, DVDs, paper files, and external archives (e.g. Mitchell Library).
- Establish a standardised format for asset records compatible with the Structures Management System and standalone databases and agree with client.
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Experience
- Experience in infrastructure, engineering, construction, civil engineering public sector environments or a similar field is desirable but not essential.
- Possessing experience in implementing document control procedures, setting up, configuring and managing Electronic Document Management Systems
- Ability to assess, retrieve, and digitise records from diverse formats.
- Experience in migrating legacy infrastructure documentation into modern digital systems while preserving data integrity.
- Ability to identify, assess, and incorporate valuable records from external sources
- High accuracy in cataloguing and formatting records, especially technical documents critical to infrastructure safety and planning.
- Proactive in identifying missing or inconsistent records and resolving archival gaps independently.
- Works effectively with internal stakeholders.
- Clear and professional communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including reporting progress to client managers.
- Comfortable working across both Network Bridges and Major Bridges, adjusting to different project scopes and priorities.
- Capable of managing large volumes of data systematically over a multi-year contract duration.
Skills
- Strong understanding of digital archiving systems and metadata standards.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills.
- Familiarity with civil infrastructure projects and technical documentation.
- Experience in searching and consolidating records from varied formats and sources.
- Conducting quality assurance checks and supporting audits to maintain information integrity
- Troubleshooting technical issues and serving as the go-to expert for information management queries
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of our information management processes and systems.
What we can offer you:
At Amey, we recognize that our biggest asset is our people. That’s why when you join us, we offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers.
- Career Development – Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones. We’re huge advocates for professional development and offer a recognition bonus for those achieving professional qualifications.
- Work-life Balance – Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.
- Wellbeing – Health cash plan, 24 GP, support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers
- EDI – At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, NeuroDiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.
- Social Value – You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.
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Plus a range of other great perks and benefits including:
- Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
- Holidays – Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Choices – Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
- Save with Amey – Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.
Your Career at Amey Consulting
At Amey Consulting, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. As one of us, you can really be yourself, because your individuality is an asset.
You’ll be stretched, but always supported. We recognise your hard work and look after your well-being too. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as the shared one.
Application Guidance
Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.
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