Just started a new job within an electronic manufacturer, and one of my tasks is to standardise each stage of the design life cycle.
i am after some guidelines/standards to put in place for the CAD part of the team so they can work to the same standard rather than going off on thier own tangent
Have you tried Google with the search entry "CAD Standards Manual"? I just tried it and got a rather extensive listing of such documents. You could pick one and use it as a pattern for your effort.