Drafter

Job title: Drafter

Department: Preconstruction / Drafting

Reports to: Operations Manager

Job overview:

The Drafter is involved with all aspects of residential new home design beginning with sketched concepts, the base plan portfolio, site plans, engineered plans and details, plans customized by the customer and the entire building permit approval process.

This position is considered a full-time, salaried, office job and as such requires a minimum of 40 hours per week on-premises at the Symphony Homes office. As a general rule, office hours are to be maintained from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm allowing for a 1 hour lunch break. Based on company workloads, working hours in excess of 50 hours per week, or more, may be required and are not considered overtime.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the sales team by drafting site plans showing house fit on the lot for prospective clients
• Draft house preliminary plans from Symphony portfolio as assigned by the operations manager for newly contracted customers
• Assist in making changes to house plans based on customer requests
• Submit and monitor status of house plans to structural engineer
• Complete RES Check calculations
• Complete, submit and monitor permit applications for jobs under own supervision
• Notify the Starts Manager, Design Consultant and Accounting as soon as a building permit if ready to be pulled.
• Jointly with the Estimator, review the costs of the building permit and all associated fees in comparison to historic costs of similar homes. Reconcile with the municipality as discrepancies are encountered
• Assist in the development of new house plans being added to Symphony Plan Library
• Maintain the Symphony Plan Library with keen focus on square footage calculation. Regularly communicate square footage changes to ownership / sales for proper house pricing
• Review base plan PDFs that are available to the sales team on a monthly basic to ensure they are up-to-date
• Provide marketing with line drawings and elevations for the creation of brochures, once a base plan has been finalized
• Timely completion of all redlines throughout the preconstruction process with focus on the final redlines prior to start pack issuance
• Work with purchasing, construction and ownership to review plans for opportunities to value-engineer common methods and practices
• Receive and incorporate ongoing feedback from purchasing and construction regarding plan-related discrepancies, errors, or oversights to avoid future recurrence

Qualifications, ongoing training and other job requirements:

• Continuously augment product knowledge through both formal and informal opportunities to receive training and updated information
• Revit
• AutoCAD
• Microsoft Office
• Learn and follow Symphony Homes Core Values and Mission Statement
• Follow the Symphony Homes Etiquette of Communication and Standards of Dress

Dimensions for use in performance reviews:

• Attention to Detail
• Information Monitoring
• Planning / Organization
• Collaboration
• Technical Knowledge
• Work Tempo
• Follow Up
• Ability to Learn