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Draughtspersons

Draughtspersons prepare technical drawings, plans, maps, charts and similar items.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 20,980
£ 29,524
£ 47,494

New workers start around £20,980. Normal pay is £29,524 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £47,494.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 33,702 vacancies for this type of job

1.47%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Arranges for completed drawings to be reproduced for use as working drawings.

  • Prepares detailed drawings, plans, charts or maps that include natural features, desired surface finish, elevations, electrical circuitry and other details as required.

  • Prepares design drawings, plans or sketches and checks feasibility of construction and compliance with safety regulations.

  • Considers the suitability of different materials with regard to the dimensions and weight and calculates the likely fatigue, stresses, tolerances, bonds and threads.

  • Examines design specification to determine general requirements.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • AutoCAD

  • Computer-Aided Design

  • Project Management

  • Autodesk Revit

  • 3D Modeling

  • Engineering Design Process

  • Building Information Modeling

  • SolidWorks (CAD)

  • Technical Drawing

  • Construction

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Detail Oriented

  • Innovation

  • Problem Solving

  • Sales

  • Microsoft Office

  • Self-Motivation

  • Research

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