Designer Drafter

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Title: Designer Drafter, Progression
Company: Tampa Electric Company
State and City: Florida
- Tampa
Shift: 8 Hr. X 5 Days

• Designer Drafter
• Designer Drafter Sr.

• Designer Drafter

The Designer Drafter - Substation Eng is responsible for creating, revising, maintaining, and developing engineering drawings and documentation supporting the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of substation relay and control, structures and equipment, RTU, and related facilities. Responsibilities include preparing construction drawings, one-line diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, equipment layouts, and related engineering documentation while adhering to Tampa Electric Company standards, schedules, and applicable industry codes.

• Read and understand standard to complex work requests, blueprints, and field sketches to create or make changes to associated drawings & maps. Apply drafting skills and principles to create, revise, maintain, and archive substation drawings, & maps. Verify that completed work, both electronic and plotted, is correct, and accurate. (40%)
• Create plots for all drawing products including standard to complex, large sized requests. Prepare and lay out standard to complex drafting projects including written procedures necessary to implement the project such as specification details, switching instructions, and legal documentation. (20%)
• Provide support and training of CAD systems and support the development of drafting standards and procedures. Continually improve technical competency through formal and informal training in CAD software, engineering practices, company standards, and emerging technologies. (20%)
• Guide and instruct team members in drafting techniques and principles. (10%)
• Translate and interpret vendor and customer supplied CAD and other drafting files. (10%)

Key Internal: Members of substation engineering, substation operations, and RTU.

Key External: Contractors, Customers, and Vendors

Education

Required: High School Diploma or equivalent and formal drafting courses.

Licenses/Certifications

Required: Valid driver's license.

Related Experience

Required: 3 years of related work experience designing electric utility substations, including relay and control, physical, structural, and/or RTU systems.

Preferred: 5 years of related work experience designing electric utility substations, including relay and control, physical, structural, and/or or RTU systems.

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

Required: AutoCAD/Auto Desk Suite of…