Electrical Drafters

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Use computer-aided drafting equipment or conventional drafting stations, technical handbooks, tables, calculators, and traditional drafting tools, such as boards, pencils, protractors, and T-squares.
• Confer with engineering staff and other personnel to resolve problems.
• Draft working drawings, wiring diagrams, wiring connection specifications or cross-sections of underground cables, as required for instructions to installation crew.
• Draw master sketches to scale showing relation of proposed installations to existing facilities and exact specifications and dimensions.
• Measure factors that affect installation and arrangement of equipment, such as distances to be spanned by wire and cable.
• Assemble documentation packages and produce drawing sets which are checked by an engineer or an architect.
• Review completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations.
• Prepare and interpret specifications, calculating weights, volumes, and stress factors.
• Explain drawings to production or construction teams and provide adjustments as necessary.
• Supervise and train other technologists, technicians and drafters.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Study work order requests to determine type of service, such as lighting or power, demanded by installation.
• Visit proposed installation sites and draw rough sketches of location.
• Determine the order of work and the method of presentation, such as orthographic or isometric drawing.
• Reproduce working drawings on copy machines or trace drawings in ink.
• Write technical reports and draw charts that display statistics and data.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.