Architectural Drafter

Job Description

Job Description

Summary - The Architectural Drafter’s focus in 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.

Essential functions - 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 Architect and Discipline lead depends 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 Architect.

Project coordination - The day-to-day responsibilities will require task coordination with your Project Architect. Your Architect 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 progresses you may be asked to participate by your Project Manager or Discipline lead in: 

• Client coordination meetings (i.e. workgroup meetings)
• Internal coordination meetings
• Discipline coordination meetings
• Meeting minute notation
• Design reviews

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 responsibilities 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: 

• Revise the package based on RFI response.
• Rev cloud and triangles
• Update models
• Convert construction as builds into our design documents for record set (red to black)
• As-builds

While going through the construction phase of a project, you may be asked by your designer to assist in the following items:

• Coordinate with other disciplines based on changes.
• Attend field walks.
• Attending Owner/Architect/Contractor (OAC) meetings.

Participation in these tasks are per the direction of your Project Architect and are the responsibility of your Project Architect to verify they are completed properly. 

Environmental Factors – Field work, Heights, Enclosed spaces, hot/ cold, noisy, and other dangers  

Physical demands - Sitting, standing, lifting, carrying, reaching, pushing, and pulling

Travel required – Some travel may be required

Required education and experience

• High school Diploma or GED 
• Proficient in AutoCAD and Revit
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of related experience

Preferred education and experience

• Associates degree or Autodesk program related certificate of completion
• Ten (10) years of related experience

Industrial Design offers full benefits including Health/Dental/Vision insurance (single and family), PTO, Paid Holidays and 401k.

Affirmative Action/EEO statement – Industrial Design recruits, hires, employs, trains, promotes, and compensates individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. 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.  

Applicants please note: This position requires US work authorization, and we are not looking for out of country/outsourced support or remote workers of any kind. This opening is for local candidates residing in the metro phoenix area or those willing to self-relocate to this area only. All positions listed are full time in office roles with no opportunity for hybrid or work from home accommodations. If you are looking to work remote, please do not apply.

All Staffing Agencies please take note:

Industrial Design LLC will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from any person/source other than directly from an individual candidate. All unsolicited resumes or applications provided to Industrial Design LLC by any method (Postal mail, Email Fax or Text), including directly to Industrial design by courier or personal delivery will be considered as property of Industrial Design LLC. Industrial Design will never pay a fee or commission for any hiring resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume or application. Any submission of an unsolicited resume or application which has delivered to Industrial Design which originates from an agency will be considered to have been referred by the agency free of any charges, fees or commissions. All agencies must obtain written approval from Industrial Design’s Principal, in advance, prior to submission any resumes or applications. Submissions then will only be permitted in conjunction with a fully executed service contract in place between the agency and Industrial Design LLC; service contracts will be specific to exact job openings only. Industrial Design LLC will not pay a fee or commission to any agency or agent that does not have a valid service agreement in place prior to communications related to the open position and potential candidate for that position. Agency agreements must be signed by the Principal member of Industrial Design LLC to be valid, no other Industrial Design LLC employee, representative or member is authorized to bind Industrial Design LLC to any agreements or contracts, written or verbal, regarding the placement of employment candidates by any agency or agent; these aforementioned conditions included any full time, part time, contract, temp to hire and staff augmentation position within Industrial Design LLC.