On relocating to Birmingham I joined a company called Watermans and worked in the structural department. Whilst working at Watermans I have worked mainly on steel, concrete and reinforcement projects further developing my skills and knowledge of these materials and also drawing techniques. Further to developing these skills I also feel I have developed my research skills further and feel able to create more detailed steelwork drawings quicker and independently.

After leaving ARP I decided to leave permanent employment and go on contract employment joining a company called KMN. At this company I have produced many different types of drawings within the structural and civil departments such as reinforced concrete, drainage, steel arrangements & details, foundations including underpinning, piles & ground beams and also topographical drawings. I spent a large amount of time whilst working at this company creating reinforced concrete and drainage drawings and I feel I have developed my Reinforcement and drainage skills and knowledge to a much higher level than I had before. I also feel that I have developed my research skills to a lot higher level and able to locate information on product types using a wide range of sources.

After leaving White Young Green I decided to move to a smaller company within Leeds to gain experience producing civil as well as structural drawings. The main types of drawings that I produced whilst working here included all drainage and external works drawings, structural plans and retaining wall drawings. Another duty was to assist the CAD manager in delegating the work as well as checking other drawings to make sure they were to ARP standards, unofficially taking the lead role once the manager left the company.

After working for nearly a year in the environmental discipline I decided to move over to the structural section within the company. My duties whilst working at this company were to produce drawings for costing, preliminary and construction purposes. Most of the work I did involved producing steelwork general arrangements, elevation and section drawings, concrete drawings including RC detailing, foundation and internal & external slab drawings. Drainage drawings for external areas.

After leaving James Lupton Consultants I spent 9 months working as a CAD technician for the environmental and Geotechnical discipline of this company. I had to produce many different types of drawings whilst working here including site plans, site sections, location plans, details, conceptual site models and drainage elevations.

During the 4 years that I have spent at this company I feel I have gained the basis of my skills and experience that I have to offer any draughting or engineering company. My general duties were to assist the engineers, to draught up sketches and create various types of drawings using AutoCAD. I created many different types of drawings including steelwork general arrangements, fabrication drawings, RC detailing and Site plans. I have an in-depth knowledge of the AutoCAD program and feel confident to be able to use to its full potential, independently.