Electrical Drafter – EV Charging
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What you'll do
- Draft 30% Construction Document Drawing sets: Create preliminary electrical drawing sets from architectural, structural, and civil base plans. Lay out main power distribution routing, equipment sizing footprints, preliminary lighting/receptacle circuitry, panelboard locations, and general notes in accordance with project scopes and initial design criteria.
- Establish CAD Standards, Details, and Reusable Templates: Build and maintain standardized drafting templates, dynamic blocks, layer standards, and detail libraries. Continuously optimize drafting workflows to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency across all project deliverables.
- Coordinate Base Plans and Cross- Discipline Integration: Import, clean, and manage background drawings from multidisciplinary teams. Identify spatial clashes, routing conflicts, and clear working space clearances for electrical switchgear and equipment early in the design cycle.
- Cross- Functional Collaboration: Interface directly with internal electrical engineers, project managers, and clients. Actively gather project criteria, incorporate review redlines/markups accurately, and participate in project kickoff and coordination meetings to align drafting output with client expectations.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
What they're looking for
- At least 5 years of electrical drafting experience.
- Experience supporting electrical designs for commercial or industrial buildings.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or similar drafting tools used to create drawing packages.
- Experience developing electrical details and standardized design templates.
- Experience creating CD drawing sets using building base plans.
- Experience developing site pans and single-line diagrams for utility service applications.
- Ability to work closely with the internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements and develop the drawings.
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Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend is looking for an experienced and detail oriented Electrical Drafter, that will support an EV Client’s utility service applications and Design Documentation.
In this role, you will be instrumental in bridging preliminary engineering concepts into actionable drawing packages, with a strong focus on utility service applications and schematic/CD30% packages. You will work closely with cross functional engineering teams, project managers, and clients to translate technical requirements into clean, accurate, and standardized electrical drawings.
Responsibilities:
- Draft 30% Construction Document Drawing sets: Create preliminary electrical drawing sets from architectural, structural, and civil base plans. Lay out main power distribution routing, equipment sizing footprints, preliminary lighting/receptacle circuitry, panelboard locations, and general notes in accordance with project scopes and initial design criteria.
- Establish CAD Standards, Details, and Reusable Templates: Build and maintain standardized drafting templates, dynamic blocks, layer standards, and detail libraries. Continuously optimize drafting workflows to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency across all project deliverables.
- Coordinate Base Plans and Cross-Discipline Integration: Import, clean, and manage background drawings from multidisciplinary teams. Identify spatial clashes, routing conflicts, and clear working space clearances for electrical switchgear and equipment early in the design cycle.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interface directly with internal electrical engineers, project managers, and clients. Actively gather project criteria, incorporate review redlines/markups accurately, and participate in project kickoff and coordination meetings to align drafting output with client expectations.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of electrical drafting experience.
- Experience supporting electrical designs for commercial or industrial buildings.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or similar drafting tools used to create drawing packages.
- Experience developing electrical details and standardized design templates.
- Experience creating CD drawing sets using building base plans.
- Experience developing site pans and single-line diagrams for utility service applications.
- Ability to work closely with the internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements and develop the drawings.
Additional Information
The salary range for this role is $120,000 - $130,000. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.
*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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