Employment Percentage
-21.9665272
SOC ID
17-3012
SOC Title
Electrical and Electronics Drafters
ONET ID
17-3012.00
ONET Concat ID
17301200
Median Salary
60962.14
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
0
Ed Level Certificate
38.490002
Ed Level Some College
1.99
Ed Level Associates
50.889999
Ed Level Bachelors
8.64
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
an Associate degree
Career Description
Prepare wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.
Core Tasks
- Draft working drawings, wiring diagrams, wiring connection specifications, or cross-sections of underground cables, as required for instructions to installation crew.
- Assemble documentation packages and produce drawing sets to be checked by an engineer or an architect.
- Consult with engineers to discuss or interpret design concepts, or determine requirements of detailed working drawings.
- Review completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations.
- Examine electronic schematics and supporting documents to develop, compute, and verify specifications for drafting data, such as configuration of parts, dimensions, or tolerances.
- Confer with engineering staff and other personnel to resolve problems.
- Draft detail and assembly drawings of design components, circuitry or printed circuit boards, using computer-assisted equipment or standard drafting techniques and devices.
- Measure factors that affect installation and arrangement of equipment, such as distances to be spanned by wire and cable.
- Locate files relating to specified design project in database library, load program into computer, and record completed job data.
- Design electrical systems, such as lighting systems.
- Draw master sketches to scale showing relation of proposed installations to existing facilities and exact specifications and dimensions.
- Study work order requests to determine type of service, such as lighting or power, demanded by installation.
- Explain drawings to production or construction teams and provide adjustments, as necessary.
- Review work orders or procedural manuals and confer with vendors or design staff to resolve problems or modify design.
- Reproduce working drawings on copy machines or trace drawings in ink.
Start Annual Earnings
38629.45
Top Annual Earnings
114503.6
EMSI Career Title Slug
electrical-and-electronics-drafter