Drafter 1

Cornerstone Building Brands; Brookhaven (MS); On-site; USD 28,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building materials manufacturer is seeking an entry-level drafting candidate based in Brookhaven, Mississippi. This position involves creating accurate fabrication documents and working closely with senior staff to enhance drafting skills and product knowledge. The successful applicant will closely adhere to company standards and learn to improve productivity and accuracy while offering support to teams. This full-time role promises to develop expertise in an innovative environment. Interested candidates should apply promptly.

Qualifications

• Entry level position focusing on developing drafting skills and product knowledge.
• No prior experience required in metal buildings.
• Willingness to follow company standards and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide neat and accurate fabrication documents adhering to design.
• Maintain schedules despite late changes and communicate effectively.
• Continually improve productivity and accuracy.
• Communicate needs and challenges to the team to keep the project on track.
• Promptly respond to calls, emails, and correspondence from customers or manufacturing to avoid delays.
• Provide expertise to resolve field problems and document solutions for customer service.
• Continuously improve productivity, accuracy, and output quality.
• Help newer staff develop drafting capabilities and understanding of standards.
• Protect company interests when evaluating field modifications.
• Be willing to work overtime to meet deadlines when required.
• Understand overall system context and be prepared to assist beyond role scope.
• Participate in back-checking processes as part of growth and training.

Skills

Drafting skills

Product knowledge

Communication

Tools

CAD software

Job description

Cornerstone Building Brands, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, is the largest manufacturer of external building products in North America with over $6 billion in annual revenue and an expansive North American footprint that includes almost 20,000 employees, operating in +70 manufacturing facilities, supported by a network of +80 distribution and branch office facilities. We have a broad product offering with a well‑regarded brand portfolio including the #1 position in windows, vinyl siding, metal accessories, metal roofing and wall systems, and insulated metal panels. We believe every building we create, and every part of that building, positively contributes to communities where people live, work and play.

Job Description

• Provide neat, accurate, and easy‑to‑follow fabrication documents that follow the design calculations and are within the manufacturing limitations.
• Provide neat and accurate permit, approval and erection drawings that adhere to the requirements of the purchase order and provide detailed information necessary to erect materials.
• Maintain a tight schedule that often has late‑addition requirements or changes in priority.
• Communicate needs and difficulties to all members of the team to assure quick disposition of problems.
• Promptly return calls, e‑mails and other correspondence that may originate from customers, design, or manufacturing when they require assistance at no cost to the schedule.
• Provide expertise to quickly solve field problems and provide the necessary documentation to customer service at no cost to the schedule.
• Continually improve productivity, accuracy and ability.
• Make it a priority to advance the capabilities of those that are lesser experienced.
• Protect the company’s interest when investigating field modifications.
• Work extra hours to move forward on a deadline when asked to.
• Understand the role in the overall system and be willing to step outside that role when required.
• Provide and/or receive back checking comments as an integral part of growth & training.

Qualifications

• This role focuses on developing drafting skills and product knowledge to work in the most productive manner without loss of accuracy or completeness.
• Cornerstone Engineering’s drafting and product standards, as well as software will be learned in conjunction with drafting procedures.
• Detail building complexities 1 to 5.
• This role will require learning ways to help in the reduction of manufacturing cost, increased ease of erection and customer value from senior staff members.
• The implementation of company standards and compliance is a key responsibility.
• Entry level, no prior experience in metal buildings.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Cornerstone Building Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Industries

• Wholesale Building Materials