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Under the supervision of the Engineering Manager, your main tasks will be to draft fabrication and construction drawings in a forestry industrial setting.

Essential Duties and Responsabilities

• Create and revise General Assembly, Sections and Detail drawings using AutoCad for:
  • Structural steel equipment support, frames and subframe assemblies
  • Walkways, stair structures and crossovers for safe access to equipment and travel throughout the mill complex
  • Concrete foundations for equipment, buildings and rolling stock traffic
  • Client review concepts and layouts for approval
  • Stick framed room and office layouts, electrical and mechanical equipment buildings
  • Steel buildings as required for tender packages to Pre-Eng Manufactured Building suppliers etc.
• Ensure design solutions are clear and easily executable by on-site staff
• Ensure designs for fabrication are efficient and achievable according to the limitations of the manufacturing processes available
• Assemble construction drawings that include a combination of referenced drawings, field data, existing suppliers’ equipment and buildings, etc.
• Conduct on-site duties within active construction sites safely
• Take field notes, accurately conveying on-site conditions for use in preparation of new construction drawings
• Check drawings by drafting techs to:
  • ensure that they are complete and ready to issue for fabrication and/or construction
  • be clear of interferences of other equipment and structures etc.
  • be efficiently designed for the shop fabrication processes
  • be easily executable in the field

Skills and Qualifications

The ideal candidate will:

• Be resourceful in identifying and sourcing all the required reference information and supplier equipment drawings required to produce their designs
• Have a basic understanding of sawmilling and lumber processing
• Be able to communicate ideas effectively
• Disseminate and act upon requests from onsite crew members, engineering, contractors and clients
• Have strong mathematical skills
• Have related construction experience
• Have basic knowledge of concrete building and equipment foundations
• Have basic knowledge of steel construction and forms (wide flange, tubes, channel and flat bar etc)
• Have basic knowledge of mechanical parts and equipment (bearings, belts and speed reducers etc)
• Have strong values, be professional and able to work independently
• Have experience using Microsoft office software