Cad Tech
Richmond, VAJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Cad Tech creates and updates CAD drawings and supports permitting packages for distribution projects. The role reviews drawings and project documentation for accuracy, coordinates updates with project and permitting teams, and performs distribution pole fielding approximately 10% of the time. It is intended for a recent graduate with foundational CAD skills and involves working onsite five days per week in Richmond.
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Job Description
Day-to-Day
- Create and update CAD drawings
- Support permitting packages for distribution projects
- Review drawings and project documentation for accuracy
- Perform distribution pole fielding approximately 10% of the time
- Coordinate with project and permitting teams to address drawing updates
The ideal candidate is a recent graduate with foundational CAD skills who is eager to gain hands-on experience supporting utility distribution and permitting projects. This individual should be dependable, detail-oriented, comfortable working in both office and field environments, and able to collaborate effectively with project teams
Skills and Requirements
- Recent graduate from a CAD, drafting, engineering technology, or similar program
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD or comparable CAD software
- Comfortable working onsite five days per week in Richmond
- Willing and able to perform occasional distribution pole fielding
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow established drafting standards
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 447 open Drafting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$68–104K/yr179 salary ranges
- US median$26–35/hr84 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 17 open Drafting jobs in Virginia and 447 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Sargent & Lundy117 open
- Kiewit37 open
- Olsson17 open
- Experience
- Drafting postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 8 years (323 postings).
- Education
- 14 of the 447 open Drafting jobs (3%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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