Electrical and Electronics Drafters

Key Responsibilities

• Determine the order of work and the method of presentation, such as orthographic or isometric drawing.
• Supervise and coordinate work activities of workers engaged in drafting, designing layouts, assembling, or testing printed circuit boards.
• Reproduce working drawings on copy machines or trace drawings in ink.
• Select drill size to drill test head, according to test design and specifications, and submit guide layout to designated department.
• Use computer-aided drafting equipment or conventional drafting stations, technical handbooks, tables, calculators, or traditional drafting tools, such as boards, pencils, protractors, or T-squares.
• Study work order requests to determine type of service, such as lighting or power, demanded by installation.
• Draw master sketches to scale showing relation of proposed installations to existing facilities and exact specifications and dimensions.
• Draft detail and assembly drawings of design components, circuitry or printed circuit boards, using computer-assisted equipment or standard drafting techniques and devices.
• Supervise or train other technologists, technicians, or drafters.
• Confer with engineering staff and other personnel to resolve problems.
• Explain drawings to production or construction teams and provide adjustments, as necessary.
• Train students to use drafting machines and to prepare schematic diagrams, block diagrams, control drawings, logic diagrams, integrated circuit drawings, or interconnection diagrams.
• Review blueprints to determine customer requirements and consult with assembler regarding schematics, wiring procedures, or conductor paths.
• Generate computer tapes of final layout design to produce layered photo masks or photo plotting design onto film.
• Write technical reports and draw charts that display statistics and data.
• Visit proposed installation sites and draw rough sketches of location.
• Review work orders or procedural manuals and confer with vendors or design staff to resolve problems or modify design.
• Measure factors that affect installation and arrangement of equipment, such as distances to be spanned by wire and cable.
• Review completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations.
• Locate files relating to specified design project in database library, load program into computer, and record completed job data.
• Prepare and interpret specifications, calculating weights, volumes, or stress factors.
• Design electrical systems, such as lighting systems.
• Consult with engineers to discuss or interpret design concepts, or determine requirements of detailed working drawings.
• Draft working drawings, wiring diagrams, wiring connection specifications, or cross-sections of underground cables, as required for instructions to installation crew.
• Examine electronic schematics and supporting documents to develop, compute, and verify specifications for drafting data, such as configuration of parts, dimensions, or tolerances.
• Plot electrical test points on layout sheets and draw schematics for wiring test fixture heads to frames.
• Key and program specified commands and engineering specifications into computer system to change functions and test final layout.
• Compare logic element configuration on display screen with engineering schematics and calculate figures to convert, redesign, or modify element.
• Copy drawings of printed circuit board fabrication using print machine or blueprinting procedure.
• Assemble documentation packages and produce drawing sets to be checked by an engineer or an architect.