Drafting Specialist
About The Position
Highland Electric Fleets’ mission is to make electric fleets accessible and affordable for all, enabling communities to realize the benefits of cleaner, quieter and healthier fleets. Highland is North America’s leading provider of Electrification-as-a-Service (EaaS). Founded in 2019, Highland partners with school districts, municipalities, and fleet operators to make the transition to electric fleets simple and affordable. Highland proudly serves as the Official Electric School Bus Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. From pioneering vehicle-to-grid technology to managing some of the nation’s largest electric school bus fleets, Highland delivers reliable, cost-effective solutions that support local communities and drive the future of transportation. 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Drafting experience in EV charging, BESS, solar, or utility/electrical infrastructure projects.
- Experience coordinating or reviewing the work of external design vendors.
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.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program
- A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues
- Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401(k) program and company match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
