Lead Wiring Diagram Designer

Butcher Power Products; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Butcher Power Products in Rancho Cordova, CA seeks a Lead Wiring Diagram Designer to head the wiring design group. You will manage a team of Wiring Designers, handle the most challenging drawings, and ensure accuracy, completeness, and on-time delivery of point-to-point diagrams, panel layouts, and schematics.

You will set standards, train designers, and own the drafting process end-to-end. You will balance workloads, review outputs, and liaison with EE leadership to address capacity and urgent

Qualifications

• Experience creating point-to-point wiring diagrams and control panel layouts.
• Ability to read single-line diagrams, schematics and customer specs.
• Solid knowledge of NEC, UL 891, UL 1558 and ANSI/IEEE standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the wiring diagram design group and oversee a team of designers.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness and on‑time delivery of drawings.
• Balance workload and assign tasks based on priority and capacity.
• Develop and enforce drafting standards and run training programs.
• Onboard new designers and maintain a skills curriculum.
• Review team deliverables and perform final checks before release.
• Identify inefficiencies and drive process improvements in drafting workflows.
• Communicate capacity constraints and deadlines to EE management.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to implement drafting feedback.

Skills

Wiring diagrams

Panel layouts

Single-line diagrams

NEC/UL/IEEE knowledge

Quality control

Team leadership

Communication

Tools

AutoCAD

AutoCAD Electrical

Job description

Job Summary

The Lead Wiring Diagram Designer runs BPP's wiring design group. You oversee a team of Wiring Designers and make sure every point-to-point diagram, panel layout, and schematic support drawing goes out accurate, complete, and on schedule. You report to the Head of Electrical Design and act as the bridge between EE leadership and the wiring design team. This is a working lead seat. You carry your own drawing load on the hardest and highest-priority jobs, and on top of that you keep the team's output consistent, catch problems before they ship, and build the standards and training that bring designers up to speed.

Key Responsibilities

1. Produce accurate, complete point-to-point wiring diagrams, panel layouts, and schematic support drawings in AutoCAD using BPP tool palettes, custom blocks, and title block standards. You stay on the board, especially for complex or high-priority work.
2. Assign and balance drawing work across the team based on project priority, due dates, and each designer's capacity. Keep the Head of EE Design informed on workload, bottlenecks, and at-risk deliverables.
3. Review the team's point-to-point diagrams and panel layouts for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with BPP standards before release. You're the last check before drawings leave the group.
4. Track recurring errors and knowledge gaps. Build targeted training, documentation, or quick-reference guides to close them.
5. Own BPP drafting conventions for the wiring group: layer naming, block usage, title blocks, wire tagging, terminal mapping, and annotation. Keep them current and make sure the team follows them.
6. Develop and maintain the wiring team's block and library set. Work directly with the CAD team to build, test, and roll out custom blocks, dynamic blocks, and tool palettes the designers rely on.
7. Onboard new Wiring Designers. Walk them through BPP tool palettes, custom blocks, and dynamic blocks hands‑on, and run them through a defined skills checklist so ramp up is consistent.
8. Maintain a training curriculum that lays out the skills and competencies every designer should hit, from junior through mid‑level.
9. Lead process‑review sessions to find inefficiencies and error sources in the drafting workflow. Drive the fixes.
10. Build and maintain checklists, best‑practice guides, and quick‑reference docs that standardize common tasks (wire tagging, terminal mapping, panel spacing, revision control).
11. Serve as the primary point of contact between the wiring design team and EE management. Surface capacity constraints, skill gaps, and urgent deadlines early.
12. Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering and Production to gather as‑built feedback, then turn that into drafting improvements the team adopts.
13. Stay current on applicable standards (NEC, UL 891, UL 1558, ANSI/IEEE) as they apply to panel wiring, labeling, and construction. Be the team's first stop when a code or standards question comes up in a customer spec or drawing package.

Qualifications

Required

1. 6+ years creating point-to-point wiring diagrams and control panel layouts, ideally in switchgear, control panel, or industrial power distribution manufacturing.
2. 2+ years leading or supervising a small team of drafters or designers.
3. Expert in AutoCAD. Strong with tool palettes, custom and dynamic blocks, layer management, and title block standards.
4. Reads and interprets single-line diagrams, schematics, and customer specs without hand-holding.
5. Solid working knowledge of NEC, UL 891, UL 1558, and ANSI/IEEE as they apply to panel wiring, labeling, and clearances.
6. Sharp eye for detail. Catches the small stuff (wire tag mismatches, terminal numbering errors, wire sizing, missing revisions) and teaches the team to do the same.
7. Clear written and verbal communication. Can give direct feedback, push back when something looks wrong, and explain the why behind a standard.

Preferred

1. Experience with switchgear, PDUs, or data center power equipment.
2. Familiarity with AutoCAD Electrical or similar schematic-capture tools.
3. Exposure to SharePoint-based document control workflows.
4. Prior experience in a manufacturing environment with direct shop floor interaction.