Senior Architectural Drafter

Most days mix drawing leadership, mentorship, and coordination — leading drawing set production in Revit or AutoCAD, mentoring junior drafters, managing office drawing standards, leading BIM coordination across disciplines, and supporting construction document deliverables for permit, bid, and IFC sets. You're often working in architectural firms, design-build companies, or in-house at developers and institutions, and project complexity shapes the documentation rigor.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the project leadership on documentation. Senior drafters often own drawing-set quality for projects that move through phases, and change order discipline, sheet management, and revision control all carry real weight. BIM coordination has reshaped what senior drafting work looks like.

People who tend to thrive here are deeply detail-oriented, fluent in CAD/BIM tools, comfortable mentoring, and quietly precise about drawing standards. If you want design authority, that lives with licensed architects. If you like leading the documentation craft that turns design intent into the drawings buildings get built from, the role offers durable demand and a clear path toward BIM manager or documentation specialist roles.