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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

Drafting technologists

• Develop and prepare engineering designs and drawings from preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets and other data
• Create building information models (BIM), using computer software, to provide digital representations of physical and functional aspects of buildings and other engineering projects
• Operate computer-assisted design (CAD) and drafting workstations
• Develop and prepare design sketches
• Complete documentation packages and produce drawing sets
• Check and verify design drawings to conform to specifications and design data
• Write technical reports
• Prepare contracts and tender documents
• Prepare construction specifications, costs and material estimates
• Supervise and train other technologists, technicians and drafters.

Drafting technicians

• Develop and prepare engineering drawings, plans, diagrams or layouts from sketches
• Operate computer-assisted drafting equipment or a conventional drafting station.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a two- to three-year college program in engineering design and drafting technology or in a related field is usually required for drafting and design technologists.
• Completion of a one- to two-year college program in drafting or completion of a three- to four-year apprenticeship program or four to five years of related experience plus completion of college or industry courses in drafting are usually required for drafting technicians.
• Trade certification for draftspersons is available, but voluntary in Ontario.
• Certification in engineering design and drafting technology or in a related field through provincial associations of engineering/applied science technologists and technicians may be required by employers.
• A period of supervised work experience, usually two years, is required before certification.

• Mobility is possible to civil, mechanical, electrical or other engineering design technologies through educational or work specialization.
• Senior and supervisory drafting and design technology workers require experience.

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