Job Description

DL George & Sons Manufacturing is looking for a Designer/Drafter with 5+ years of professional drafting experience.

Designer/Drafter Skills & Attributes:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work to a schedule and achieve timelines.
• Problem solving/analysis skills.

Designer/Drafter Responsibilities and Duties:

• Checks submittal, installation, and fabrication drawings for dimensional accuracy to construction documents, constructability and general conformance to specifications, application of project details, standard operating procedure, and engineering requirements.
• Checks for accuracy to installation and fabrication drawings, formatting and clarity.
• Checking quantity and the bill of materials on the fabrication drawings.
• Signs off on finalized submittal and fabrication drawings and ensures finalized drawings are provided to project management.
• Monitors the general drafting workflow on assigned projects for adherence to standard operating procedure and schedule tracking.
• Completing model and/or sketches for specific design issues.
• Attending Design assist meetings for new projects.
• Design assist checking and sketches for detailing team.
• Checking origin and coordinate points with BIM consultant.
• Ability to work from rough sketches and specifications created by engineers.
• Must have the ability to produce/review drawings and provide feedback through redlines to engineering team.

Designer/Drafter Required Education and Experience:

• Associates Degree in Design/Drafting and/or CAD preferred.
• Certification of two (2) years training from a vocational training school or two (2) years of college with courses relevant to drafting or engineering.
• 5+ years of professional drafting experience.
• 3 years of related experience to our relevant industry of structural steel.
• 2+ years extensive pre-fabrication drafting checking experience preferred.
• Proficiency in reading and understanding construction documents and shop drawings.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite and Auto CAD 2D and 3D.
• Must have experience using solid modeling CAD software (experience with Advance Steel/Inventor works a plus).
• Experience with AISC drawing standards.
• Experience with weldment practices and methods.
• Experience checking fabrication prints.