Drafter I
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Job overview
A Drafter I produces precast product elevations and design, customer approval, and field drawing sets, along with production, steel, and miscellaneous drawings. The role handles low-complexity projects with minimal assistance, lays out precast units using CAD, recommends efficient panel layouts, communicates with internal and external contacts, documents changes, and contributes ideas to improve processes and standards.
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Full job description
Description
Purpose/Scope
A Drafter I will produce precast product elevations; a design set for the engineer, an approval set for the customer, and a final set for the field to use along with production drawings, steel drawings, and miscellaneous drawings for the plant and vendors use.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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Perform the tasks below for low complexity projects with minimal assistance:
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With a Computer Aided Drafting System (CAD), layout precast units to correlate with plans, specifications, addendum, and the bid package
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Recommend efficient and cost saving panel layouts to the related parties
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Communicate with external contacts (Architects, Engineers, General Contractors, Steel Vendors, Outsource Companies, and their related positions), as well as internal contacts as needed
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Document any changes or concerns and forward to the job team
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Carry out all other related tasks to reach the goals of the drafting group
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Input ideas to streamline processes
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Help create and improve standards
Basic Qualifications
A two (2) year technical college degree related to the construction industry, specific to drafting required, or equivalent
Other Required Qualifications
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Able to read and understand blueprints, customer sketches, and specifications
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Proficient in AutoCAD or equivalent
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Ability to correspond well with others and the flexibility to change tasks midstream
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Some discretion and independent judgement may be required
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We versed with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
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Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all internal and external contacts
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Ability to work more than a 40-hour work week when required
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of Precast Wall construction
Physical Requirements
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Move 25lbs (not for all jobs, reasonable accommodations will be made).
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Work with a computer for extended periods of time.
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Ability to work under strict deadlines
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Ability to work in a team setting, as well as an individual setting
Work Environment
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Remote/Office: Quiet with some ambient noise, climate controlled, fluorescent lighting
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Occasional travel to field sites or other plants
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Plant/Field: All types of weather conditions (year-round), dirt/dust, noise/vibrations from heavy machinery/vehicles, loud noises, little to no climate control, varying amounts of light, stairs, narrow walkways
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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 447 open Drafting jobs 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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