Drafting Specialist

Highland Electric Fleets; Beverly (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary plus bonus

Health, Vision, and Dental coverage

Generous Paid Time Off

401(k) program with company match

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Highland Electric Fleets in Beverly, MA is seeking a Drafting Specialist to produce conceptual site layouts for EV charging, BESS, and edge compute projects, turning qualified sites into buildable designs and templates. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the role requires creating template-driven layouts and coordinating with external design partners to sustain high throughput.

The position emphasizes clean, standards-compliant drawings at volume and on aggressive timelines, with the

Qualifications

• Associate degree or 3+ years of drafting experience.
• Expertise in AutoCAD for site layouts and civil/electrical drawings.
• Experience with Procore or Bluebeam and GIS/site data.
• Ability to deliver standards-compliant drawings on tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Set up project design templates and produce conceptual site layouts translating qualified sites to designs with equipment configurations.
• Support external drafting partners, reviewing output for quality and driving weekly layout volume.
• Ensure layouts reflect site constraints identified during qualification.
• Maintain CAD standards, title blocks, symbol libraries, and design templates for consistency.
• Assist with markups, revisions, and drawing production through 30% and IFP stages.
• Contribute to a repository of drafting requirements from AHJ and utilities.
• Quality-check drawings for completeness before internal approvals.

Skills

AutoCAD

Detail-oriented

Procore

Bluebeam

GIS

Education

Associate's degree in drafting, design, engineering technology

Tools

Procore

Bluebeam

GIS

Job description

About Us

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.

About Us

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.

About Us

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.

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.

$65,000 - $75,000 a year

What You Can Expect From Highland

• 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

Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.