Drafting Specialist

Job Summary:

The Drafting Specialist produces conceptual design packages that move Highland's projects from a qualified site to ready for engineering, across a large and fast-moving portfolio of EV charging, battery energy storage (BESS), and edge compute sites.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Drafting Specialist turns buildable-area findings into template-driven conceptual layouts, prepares the drawing packages required for engineering. The Drafting specialist supports the coordination of Highland's external design partners to sustain a high weekly throughput of completed sites.

This is a hands-on, high-velocity CAD role for someone who takes pride in clean, standards-compliant

drawings produced at volume and on an aggressive timeline.

Responsibilities:

• Set up project design templates and produce conceptual site layouts that translate qualified

  sites with buildable areas into conceptual designs that identify equipment configurations (EV

  charging, BESS, and edge compute).

• Support Highland's external drafting partners, reviewing their output for quality and driving the

  weekly volume of completed layouts.

• Ensure conceptual layouts reflect the site constraints identified in qualification.
• Support the maintenance of Highland's CAD standards, title blocks, symbol libraries, and design

  package templates so drawings are consistent and repeatable across the portfolio.

• Support with markups, revisions, and drawing production through the 30% and Issued-for-

  Permit (IFP) design stages.

• Contribute to and maintain a repository of utility and Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) drafting

  and drawing requirements.

• Quality-check drawings for completeness and adherence to Highland package content and

  structure before each internal approval gate and handoff.

Qualifications:

Required

• Associate's degree in drafting, design, engineering technology, or a related field, or 3+ years of

  directly related professional drafting experience.

• Expertise in AutoCAD, with the ability to produce site layouts and civil/electrical drawing

  packages accurately and at volume.

• Strong attention to detail and a track record of delivering standards-compliant drawings on tight

  timelines.

• Familiarity with project management and drawing package review software (Procore, Bluebeam)

  and with GIS, parcel, or site-plan data.

Preferred

• Drafting experience in EV charging, BESS, solar, or utility/electrical infrastructure projects.
• Experience coordinating or reviewing the work of external design vendors.