**Description**
**DEPARTMENT:** **VIRTUAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION (VDC)**
**REPORTS TO:** **VDC MANAGER**
**OVERVIEW:**
As an Entry Level Drafter, using the software listed below, assist the Lead VDC Coordinator in the electrical design and layout of construction projects under the supervision of field crew members.
**Compensation for this role** : $26.00 to $34.00 depending on experience
**General Responsibilities**
- Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
- Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
- Earn and maintain customer's trust
- Uphold the core values of the organization
- Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and of the job
**Specific Responsibilities**
VDC Drafter
Support the CAD needs of the Preconstruction, Marketing, Prefabrication, and Field construction teams, including but not limited to:
- Work in 3D models
- Create Install Drawings
- 2-D CAD Details
- 3-D CAD Drawings
- As-Built Drawings
- Link and Maintain Index Sheets
- Organizational Charts
- Seating Charts
- Proposal Boards
- Maintain CAD file archives
- Stay current with required training for company's CAD requirements
- Quality assurance of work product
**Other duties may be assigned**
**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:**
Knowledge in:
- AutoCAD MEP
- Navisworks Manage
- Revit
- Bluebeam Revu
- Microsoft Office
Skill In:
- Acting as a self-starter
- Works well with others
- Spatial orientation
- Customer management
- Listening
- Speaking intelligently
- Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
- Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
- Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels - Using communication software
- Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
- Operating a computer
- Operate Microsoft office products
- Organizing work to accomplish tasks
- Reading and writing
- Prioritizing and reporting to meet job needs
- Problem solving under pressure
- Time Management
Ability to:
- Retain and access critical information from memory
- Conceptually estimate and provide input on demand at design meetings
- Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
- Think on your feet
- Understand when to speak and when not to speak
- Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)
- See things from multiple perspectives
**PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:**
- Driving
- Sitting
- Climbing
- Lifting (up to 50 lbs)
- Standing
- Stooping
- Vision acuity (near and far)
- Walking
**REQUIREMENTS:**
High School Diploma or equivalent is required along with an A.A.S. Degree in Computer Aided Drafting and Design or equivalent.
**Benefits of this role:**
+ Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: **medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.**
+ Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore's in house training program.
**Applications will close for this position on:** September 1, 2026 or until successful filled.
_For questions regarding this role, please contact_ :
[email protected]
_To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact_
[email protected] _._
**Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.**
Equal Opportunity Employer
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