What are the responsibilities and job description for the Structural Drafter (Onsite) position at Industrial Design?
Job Description
Job Description
Role Overview :
The Drafter focus on a design team is the creation and development of construction documents. This will require the Drafter to coordinate heavily with their Designer to complete the goal.
Design
As a Drafter in a design team your personal skills will allow you to coordinate effectively with your Designer and others. During design you are a crucial part of the design team, your professionalism and experience is relied on to complete projects. Your Project Engineer and Discipline lead depend on you for :
- As-builds
- Field observations
- File creation in Industrial Designs authoring format
- Sheet creation
- Block / family creation
- Annotations
- Plotting
- Communication and coordination with other disciplines
- Following design standards (text height, annotation standards, view usage etc.)
- Maintaining proper file housekeeping (i.e. layers, view allocations, phase allocation etc.)
- Picking up redline corrections from your Project Engineer.
The day-to-day responsibilities will require task coordination with your Project Engineer. Your Project Engineer will coordinate with you on content for plans, sections, elevations, and details to accomplish the design intent. It should be understood, to develop construction documents there will be several changes and iteration until the overall design intent is achieved. As design progress you may be asked to participate by your Design or Discipline lead in :
Although these are not your direct responsibilities it is up to your Project Engineer and discipline lead if your participation is required. Sometimes these duties can lead to beneficial information to develop your project, but they are not always critical for your progression.
Construction Administration
During the construction phase of a project. Our completed package is given to a general contractor to onboard trades for construction. During this phase of a project, we will receive Request for Information (RFI) and Submittals (verification of items being purchased per spec). These are mainly the responsibility of your designer based on the impact these items will have on construction. An incorrect RFI or submittal could exponentially affect a project and should be taken as seriously as design. Your main responsibilities during this are to :
Rev cloud and triangles
While going through the construction you may be asked by your designer to assist in the following items :
Industrial Design offers full benefits including Health / Dental / Vision insurance (single and family), PTO, Paid Holidays and 401k.
Please note, this position requires US work authorization and is not eligible for remote work. Industrial Design is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law.
