Design Drafter Job Description
Design Drafter Duties & Responsibilities
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Design Drafter Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Design Drafter
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Education for Design Drafter
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Employers hiring for the design drafter job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Technical, Drafting, Design, Associates, Engineering, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Science, Computer Aided Drafting
Skills for Design Drafter
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Design Drafter Examples
Design Drafter Job Description
- Developing and verifying architectural drawings for accuracy
- Coordinate with project team by utilizing the Project Database
- Makes engineering computations, writes specifications and makes adjustments in drawings or specifications
- Defines and prepares illustrations, posters and layouts for technical publications, presentations, briefings and displays including customer regulations and pamphlets
- Provides frequent, significant support to other teams and suppliers
- Supports and provides technical direction on specific work assignments
- Participates in the development and/or improvement of new and existing products for design change, cost reductions, warranty improvements, and manufacturability
- Assists with evaluation of vendors
- Defines and/or interprets electrical wiring and control requirements for products
- Understands and communicates electrical safety standard requirements
- SolidWorks a necessity
- Knowledge of solid modeling and capable of breaking down models preparing 2D Product Level drawings with all required functional dimensions and required data
- Familiar with Military commodities is desirable
- Textile/Fabric Design experience desirable
- Transport and/or urban development project experience is a must
- Relevant formal qualification such as a Diploma in Civil Design or equivalent and or
Design Drafter Job Description
- Defines and performs product prototype building and evaluation
- Coordinates across programs and with other groups
- Assists product launch with field installation evaluation
- Participates in manufacturing pilot runs
- Generates business opportunity ideas such as work productivity enhancement, product cost improvement, and cost avoidance
- Comprehensive understanding of working in a design office and preparation of engineering design drawings
- Demonstrates experience project delivering solar farms and or wind farms essential
- Layout experience with a 3D understanding
- Contribute to a complete and integrated set of digital project content including documents by working co-operatively with team members
- Liaise with the Engineers and Drafters to ensure timely delivery of design drawings, whilst maintain, develop, and retain the highest standard of technical design skills
- Ability to draft in AutoCAD/AutoDesk products
- Exposure to highways/earthworks design
- Familiarity with Australian design standards
- Ability and desire to learn Civil3D
- Please note a current, valid Australian drivers licence is required
- Experience working with AutoCAD in a production environment
Design Drafter Job Description
- Knowledge of other software such as ProjectWise and MS Office Suite (specifically Excel and Word)
- Performing site inspections of University buildings to verify measurements
- Creating new and editing existing CAD documentation
- Organizing and maintaining drawings for records
- Supports the USMC with the Guam Military Buildup MILCON C4ISR Engineering, Planning and Design efforts
- Produce SIPH-compliant drawings that include, but are not limited to Installation Design Plans
- Manage and control IDP Master Drawings Sets for projects, including the cross-reference (XREF) files
- Examine and check engineering drawings for compliance with cited specifications and to ensure necessary items are included in each drawing to support the assigned task
- Produce mechanical and electrical drawings from rough engineering sketches
- Review engineering drawing and designs to ensure adherence to established specifications and standards
- Ability to create mechanical drawings to document designs
- Ability to select and specify material used in mechanical designs
- 2 years of experience with InRoads and AutoCAD is mandatory
- General understanding of how to use AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil 3D
- Excellent interpersonal skills excellent written and oral communication skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills (communicating to internal and external customers, peers, stakeholders)
Design Drafter Job Description
- Utilize corporate drawing standards as guidelines to complete work
- Perform all other duties and responsibilities as directed by management
- Develop Marketing Floor Plans for sales offices
- Develop Interactive Floor Plans for website
- Revise marketing plans as marked and thoroughly coordinates all systems that are affected by any changes
- Develop, distribute, and support marketing material to field
- Interaction with field Team Members for accuracy of marketing material
- Facilitate problem solving with fellow Team Members, City Coordinators, and Website Developers
- Learn and maintain knowledge of SolidWorks computer aided design system functions and capabilities
- Use Process & Instrumentation Diagram to design/layout piping, structural skids and equipment for process skids (s)
- Keep promises and commitments
- Practice good interpersonal skills and have good working relationships with individuals and groups with whom he/she comes in contact
- Incorporate diverse perspectives and opinions when making decisions
- Minimum 2 years recent experience translating engineering drawings, markups and 3D models into 2D CAD drawings for electrical and instrumentation
- Experience doing this for mechanical and civil as well is preferred
- Familiarity in AutoCAD Mechanical, plus 2 years of design/drafting experience
Design Drafter Job Description
- An excellent working knowledge of building drafting and design principles
- Creates new or completes revised drawings showing dimensions, in accordance with established procedures, practices, and standards
- Design and produce detailed structural drawings using latest version of AutoCAD
- Generate conceptual space plans, sketches and diagrams for new facilities and new projects
- Participate in field observations, recording as-built conditions, and translating into record drawings
- Collaborate with internal groups to develop master plan for green field site including expansion strategies
- Coordinate all design standards w/cross functional disciplines
- Coordinate w/ process controls, cost and document control team to manage all project documents during project life cycle
- Work effectively under high pressure situations and meet project deadlines
- Applies basic principles and established design practices in developing conceptual designs and preliminary deliverables
- Autodesk Inventor experience (preferred) or other 3D solid modeling software
- Background in rotating equipment, mechanical seals, API Piping Plans highly desirable
- Detail oriented with a focus on first-time quality
- Responsive and able to prioritize and meet deadlines on a high volume of tasks
- Minimum 3 years on the job experience with AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or comparable CAD software
- 3D modelling experience for civil infrastructure projects