DRAFTING TECHNICIAN/ENGINEERING AIDE DRAFTING TECHNICIAN

Code: 06902 Local Non-Competitive

Official job specification

The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.

Definition

Under direction, performs routine drafting work involved in the preparation of drawings, maps, charts, graphs, sketches, and plans; does other related duties as required.

Under direction, performs routine, repetitive, and noncomplex field and office work as a chairman and roadman, and assists in instrument operation, makes the less difficult mathematical calculations, and reduces level notes; does other related duties as required.

Examples of work

• Receives instructions and selects appropriate templates or compass for making arcs, curves, circles, and ellipses.
• Draws angles with drafting machine or through the use of T-square and triangles and determines the size, spacing, and arrangement of dimensions and notes.
• Plot and draw graphs, charts, and diagrams.
• Makes standard arithematic calculations in determining scales and line weights of drawings to be reduced for publication and reports and in converting drawings from one scale to another.
• From sketches, draws floor plans of buildings, determining size, spacing, and arrangement of freehand lettering according to a given scale.
• Draws simple land profiles from previously reduced survey notes and structural dimensions furnished.
• From a marked up print showing changes, revises the original drawings of a plumbing system, increasing or decreasing the diameter of the pipes.
• Performs the routine drafting work involved in plotting alignments of roads from construction plans and field notes.
• Draws widths and types of pavements.
• Draws numbers and indexes bridges over streams, railroad overpasses and underpasses, grade crossings, and topographical features.
• Prepares sketches and charts.
• Inks titles on property maps and construction plans and varied types of field notes.
• Does mechanical lettering.
• Draws and/or revises tax maps and other maps requiring the use of various colored ink and protractors.
• May perform field work requiring use of transit and rod to verify information prior to revising map of underground utilities.
• Prepares clear, accurate, and complete working plans and detail drawings from rough or detailed sketches or notes according to specified dimensions.
• Makes final sketches of proposed drawings checking dimensions of parts and making any adjustments or changes necessary or desired.
• Inks in all lines and letters on pencil drawings as required.
• Draws charts for representation of statistical data.
• Checks non-complex mathematical calculations for accuracy.
• Maintains established relevant records and files where selection and classification of data does not require difficult decisions and where procedures are routinized.
• Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
• REQUIREMENT
• Does chaining and measuring with a tape.
• Runs a level rod, drives stakes, clears survey lines, cares for equipment, and sees that taping instruments are clean and well oiled.
• Cuts brush while working in a survey party and reduces level notes.
• Plots, inks, and calculates cross sections, makes simple mathematical calculations and does routine drafting and tracing.
• Inspects and checks earthwork, and checks and records loads of materials taken from pits.
• May assist in several operations at the batching plant including the sampling of materials, the making of simple screen and moisture tests, and the preparation of samples to be sent to the laboratory.
• Maintains necessary records.
• Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.

License

Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.

Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowledge of drafting techniques and instruments used in preparing detailed sketches, drawings, charts, and plans.
• Knowledge of procedures for reducing, enlarging, tracing, lettering, and filing of maps, drawings, charts, sketches, graphs, and plans.
• Knowledge of symbols and terminology used in drafting work.
• Ability to analyze routine drafting problems.
• Ability to understand, remember, and carry out oral and written directions.
• Ability to learn quickly from written and oral explanations and from demonstrations.
• Ability to prepare engineering and/or architectural drawings that are neat, accurate, and logically arranged, utilizing the methods and techniques of drafting.
• Ability to make mathematical computations using standard tables and formulas.
• Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
• Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
• CODES: LG - CAH/hw 6/2/97
• ENGINEERING AIDE
• Knowledge of methods and techniques used in maintenance and construction work and of the methods used in making basic arithmetic calculations and of the fundamentals of algebra, plane geometry, and trigonometry.
• Ability to understand, remember, and carry out written and oral directions and to learn quickly from written and oral explanation and from demonstration.
• Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
• Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
• CODES: LG - CAH 9/4/96
• This job specification is for local government use only.
• TITLE CODE FOR DUAL TITLE: LG -

Note

The definition and examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.

The definition and examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.