Electrical Designer/Drafter
Portland, OR 
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Posted 24 months ago
Position No Longer Available
Position No Longer Available
Job Description

Technical Competencies:

  • Familiarity with the National Electrical Code
  • Familiarity with relevant codes and standards such as the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), etc.
  • Familiarity with electrical construction materials, components, and practices
  • Familiarity with and application of Jacobs engineering design and CADD drafting standards
  • Able to perform zonal cavity and point-to-point lighting level calculations
  • Able to size wire, conduit and overcurrent protection for both lighting and power applications
  • Able to perform voltage drop calculations
  • Able to route conduit and cable tray
  • Able to calculate tray fill
  • Able to determine distribution, branch panel, and motor control center loading

Skills:

  • Proficient in Revit and 2D AutoCAD or Microstation
  • Proficient in Microsoft Mail, Word, Excel, OneNote, and Access
  • Familiarity with a third party lighting design software package

Good listening, writing and communication skills

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • This is a subordinate position. You will be accountable for preparing engineering drawings from sketches or engineering information, budget, schedule and quality of assigned elementary drafting tasks.
  • Your duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
    • Gain familiarity with the client's expectations, scope, budget and schedule for assigned tasks
    • Recognize and communicate scope and design changes promptly
    • Utilize BIM software to provide layouts, general arraignments, profile views, and details
    • Provide on-site assistance during startup
    • Draft installation details, single lines, electric room layouts, motor control elementaries, connection diagrams, control panel layouts and grounding, lighting, power plans

Overall Expectations:

  • Actively cooperate with members of your project task force, client personnel and members of your department, as appropriate
  • Establish a professional and, if possible, a personal relationship with key client personnel with whom you interact
  • Understand client expectations, as determined by the team, and constantly strive to achieve or better these
  • Meet commitments that you make to the client, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed effort hour or cost budgets
  • Produce flawless work with minimum rework
  • Look for ways to reduce project cost and schedule and for ways to improve our work processes

Education & Experience:

  • High School
  • Two Year Technical Degree or Four Year Non-Technical Degree
  • This position requires a minimum 2 years of relevant experience in design utilizing 3-D modeling / drafting with 5 years being more common.

 

Position No Longer Available
Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
High School or Equivalent
Required Experience
2+ years
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