CAD Designer
Concord, NCContract$50–57/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The CAD Designer will produce and revise technical drawings for building and site layouts, infrastructure, manufacturing equipment, facility upgrades, and equipment service projects. The role supports manufacturing and facilities teams, incorporating vendor drawings and field-verification data into layouts and as-built documentation. It requires an associate degree or higher in Drafting, Engineering, or a related field, at least five years of CAD drafting experience, and proficiency with CAD software.
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$50-$57 per hour
Concord, NC
Contract
Duration: 12 months, with the possibility of extension
Experience:
The CAD Technician will produce accurate, high-quality technical drawings and documentation supporting building and site layouts, building infrastructure, manufacturing equipment layouts, facility upgrades, and equipment service projects. This role requires experience creating and revising drawings for building services, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, fire protection, and process utility systems—as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure designs meet specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and project deadlines.
Daily Responsibilities:
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Create floor plans showing equipment locations, footprints, clearances, operator access, safety zones, aisleways, egress routes, and material flow.
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Coordinate equipment placement with electrical power, controls, compressed air, water, gas, ventilation, process piping, drainage, and other facility services.
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Prepare installation and relocation drawings for new or modified production equipment, including foundations, anchoring locations, service connections, and equipment access requirements.
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Support manufacturing-engineering and facilities teams with capacity expansion workflow improvements, equipment moves, and plant-layout changes.
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Incorporate equipment vendor drawings, utility requirements, and field-verification data into final layouts and as-built documentation.
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Ensure layouts consider safe operation, maintenance access, ergonomic requirements, material movement, and compliance with applicable safety and building standards.
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Conduct thorough reviews of drawings and designs to ensure accuracy, constructability, and alignment with project goals.
Required Qualifications
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Associate degree or higher in Drafting, Engineering, or a related field plus a minimum of 5 years’ experience in CAD drafting, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
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Proficiency in CAD software such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor, or equivalent.
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Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and 3D models. Including building and equipment footprints, utility-connection requirements, equipment clearances, and manufacturing workflow needs.
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Experience creating or revising manufacturing plant layouts and equipment layouts.
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Experience supporting manufacturing engineering, plant engineering, facilities engineering, equipment installation, or production-line expansion projects.
Education:
- Associate degree or higher in Drafting, Engineering, or a related field
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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How this job compares
Set against the 447 open Drafting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$50–57/hr
- US median$26–35/hr84 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $53.50/hr, is 70% above the US median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the top quarter of Drafting hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Drafting jobs in North Carolina 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
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Drafting postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (323 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 127 of the 447 open Drafting jobs (28%) ask for an associate 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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