Job Title: Utility Designer

Summary

The Utility Designer is responsible for performing design work for electric and/or gas new construction, capital maintenance, or system improvements. This includes project initiation, preparation of new improvement designs, cost estimates, and contracts. The role requires establishing project-specific business relationships and guiding customers through the company's New Business Process. The focus is on identifying customer needs for new business utility design for electric and/or gas projects, maintaining a working knowledge of company standards, tariffs, and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Use computer-aided drafting skills to prepare sketches, diagrams, single line job drawings, and job maps.
• Interpret and map verbal and written instructions, rough sketches, and data collected by Engineers, Planners, Estimators, or Surveyors.
• Consult standard maps of cities, subdivision plats, railroads, and highways to prepare new maps for plotting distribution lines and facilities.
• Reproduce and revise maps as changes occur, maintaining up-to-date distribution maps of Electric and Gas systems.
• Prepare base maps for job drawings from provided data.
• Operate and maintain printers, plotters, copy machines, and perform miscellaneous minor maintenance.
• Assist in reducing field survey notes and field checking occasionally.
• Make mechanical and architectural drawings as required.
• Perform clerical work related to the Distribution Design Department.

Required Qualifications

• 2-7 years experience with CAD drafting or design
• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Customer service experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of drafting and design.
• Knowledge of civil engineering principles.
• Experience with distribution design and power distribution.
• Familiarity with construction estimation and utilities.