Drafter Jobs in Australia

The primary role of drafters is to take whatever designs that professionals (such as architects and engineers) create and turn them into blueprints and plans. These plans can be anything from the tiniest electronic components in a cell phone to something much bigger like a skyscraper.

Often, they are responsible for creating visual guides that will be used for the purposes of construction; it is of utmost importance for them to have thorough technical knowledge of the details in order to do so efficiently.

This is because they are required to create highly details drawings of structures, and to create drawings of a structure's internal workings such as wiring diagrams and layouts. Moreover, Drafters must have good communication skills as they are often expected to give speeches to provide construction plan details.

A drafter usually spends most of their time within the office and may be sometimes visiting the venue they are working on. They usually work on their own or in some cases minimal supervisions. Drafter's work the normal 9 to 5 hours but may be required to work overtime in order to meet deadlines.

69% of current opportunities are permanent, whereas 31% are contract jobs.

24 new job listings for this search have been found in the last calendar day, compared with 80 in the last 72 hours and 139 in the last week.

95% of the live vacancies are full-time, however 5% of them are part-time positions.

The standard deviation of salaries for the results of this search is 20,827.

The average salary for open Drafter jobs is currently $86,764, 2% lower than the national average salary for all jobs which is $88,525.