✦ Luna Orbit — Engineering (Non-Software)

Drafter

at Builders FirstSource

📍 Spearfish, SD Unknown Posted April 16, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience entry
Exp. Years six months to one-year related experience and/or training (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
Education Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school
Category Engineering (Non-Software)

This Drafter role creates designs and drawings based on company order forms, customer selection sheets, and prior job information. The work includes ensuring stability, deflection, and load-carrying meets or surpasses codes, completing quality control checks, and collaborating with sales and technical teams to produce accurate design modifications and layouts.

  • Create designs and drawings from order and selection information
  • Ensure stability, deflection and load carry meet code requirements
  • Follow quality control procedures for completeness, accuracy, and code compliance
  • Prepare design modifications with client and technical staff
  • Develop layouts and technical descriptions, optimizing use of inventory and equipment

The drafter prepares technical drawings and detailed layouts, writes technical descriptions, and performs code compliance and quality control reviews. The role also supports inventory-efficient design use and benefits from tooling such as AutoCAD, PrimeCad, MS Word, and MS Excel.

The ideal candidate is an entry-level drafter with an Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent technical training, plus experience producing design drawings and layouts from customer order information. They have strong quality and code-compliance instincts (stability, deflection, load carrying) and ideally experience with AutoCAD and PrimeCad, along with MS Word and MS Excel.

ability to readanalyzeand interpret common scientific and technical journalsfinancial reportsand legal documentsability to create designs and drawings from customer order information
PrimeCad experienceMS Word experienceMS Excel experienceAutoCAD experienceexperience with PrimeCad
PrimeCadMS WordMS ExcelAutoCAD
design drawingscode compliancequality control proceduresstabilitydeflectionload carryingtechnical descriptionslayoutsrough sketchesdesign modificationsinventory optimizationPrimeCadMS WordMS ExcelAutoCADcontinuous improvementreading technical journalsreading financial reportsreading legal documents
creating designs and drawingsdesign details from original concept drawingspreparing layoutstechnical sketchingcreating finished drawingswriting technical descriptionsinterpreting information submitted on an order formreading and interpreting technical journalsreading and interpreting financial reportsreading and interpreting legal documentscode compliancestability analysisdeflection analysisload carrying verificationquality control proceduresdesign modifications preparationinventory optimizationmaterials selection documentationcontinuous improvement
collaborationcustomer communicationattention to detailquality mindsetcontinuous improvement mindsetprofessional communication
Industry Manufacturing
Job Function Produce accurate, code-compliant structural design drawings and details for building projects.
Role Subtype Structural drafter
Drafterdesign drawingsdesign modificationsquality control procedurescode compliancestabilitydeflectionload carriesinventoryPrimeCadMS WordMS ExcelAutoCADassociate's degreeA. A.technical schooltechnical descriptionslayoutsrough sketchescontinuous improvementcollaborate with outside sales personnelcustomerstechnical staffdesign services personnelscientific and technical journalsfinancial reportslegal documentsplane and solid geometrytrigonometrymathematical conceptsfractionspercenttechnical drawingsquality control

Associate's degree or equivalent technical training (or equivalent combination of education and experience) is required

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