Millwork Shop Drawing Reviewer

CLT Recruiters; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with 5% employer match

Paid time off

Job summary

SMI is developing software that generates millwork shop drawings. We seek a lead draftsperson in Manhattan to review and correct software output, ensuring drawings are accurate, complete, and buildable for a high-end shop.

Expect to correct dimensions, joinery, materials, and edge conditions at volume, helping the system learn from your corrections. Long-term, on-site role with stability and growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years as a lead draftsperson in a high-end custom millwork shop.
• Knowledge of how a shop actually runs and how drawings are translated to built products.
• Proficiency in millwork detailing including casework, paneling, joinery, hardware, finishes and shop standards.
• Strong judgment to identify what is wrong in a drawing without guidance.
• Comfort in clearly communicating what is not right and in continuing work on unfinished software.

Responsibilities

• Review software-generated millwork shop drawings for accuracy and completeness.
• Correct dimensions, joinery, materials, hardware, edge conditions and assembly sequences.
• Judge the output from a shop perspective to ensure buildability.
• Handle high-volume corrections to accelerate learning in the software.
• Flag recurrent errors to fix issues at the source.

Skills

Lead draftsperson

Millwork detailing

Shop knowledge

Attention to detail

Job description

This is not a drafting job. SMI is developing software that generates millwork shop drawings, and this role exists to make that software good enough to trust. You would review what it produces, correct it, and do that at volume so the system learns from the corrections.

That is why we are looking for a lead draftsperson out of a high-end custom millwork shop. The value is not drafting speed. It is knowing how a shop actually builds, and being able to look at a drawing and see immediately what is wrong with it.

What you would be doing

• Review software-generated millwork shop drawings for accuracy, constructability and completeness.
• Correct what is wrong - dimensions, joinery, materials, hardware, edge conditions, assembly sequence, shop standards.
• Judge the output the way a shop would. Will this drawing build, and will it build the way a high-end shop expects.
• Work through high volume. The software improves in proportion to how much corrected work it is given.
• Flag the patterns. Where the software gets the same thing wrong repeatedly, say so, so it can be fixed at the source.

What we are looking for

• A minimum of five years as a lead draftsperson in a high-end custom millwork shop.
• Working knowledge of how a shop runs, not only how a drawing looks. This role is being filled for that knowledge.
• Command of millwork detailing - casework, paneling, joinery, hardware, finishes and the shop standards behind them.
• The judgment to look at a drawing and know what is wrong with it without being told.
• Comfort saying clearly and repeatedly what is not right. The job is correction.
• Willingness to work on something unfinished. The software is early, and improving it is the work.

The arrangement

• Full-time, forty hours a week, on site in a Manhattan office. This is not a remote or hybrid position.
• Employment or contract terms can be discussed. What is not flexible is that the work is done in the office.
• The role is intended to be long-term if the project succeeds.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, with the employee base plan covered in full.
• A 401(k) with a 5% employer match, eligible from your first day.
• Paid time off covering vacation, sick and personal days, and ten federal holidays.

Compensation:

$115,000-$130,000 per year