Telecom Drafter

**Location**: Regina or Saskatoon
**Reports to**: Manager, Telecoms SK & ON
**Job Posting#**: 10-2025
**Application Deadline**: November 15, 2024

We have an opening for a Telecom Drafter responsible for producing high-quality CAD design drawings for outside plant projects for major Canadian utility companies.

**Responsibilities**:

- Produce civil and cable drawings using AutoCAD and/or SpatialNET.
- Minimize drafting errors through constant communication with the Designer.
- Utilize all available tools to maintain high volume work output.
- Escalate difficult issues as required to prevent delays in deliverables.
- Ensure that all drawings produced adhere to client drafting standards and specifications.
- Review own drawings for content and accuracy prior to issuing them to the Designer.
- Keep up to date with advances in AutoCAD and SpatialNET updates.
- Adhere to Primary’s approved processes and procedures.
- Monitor workload and develop realistic action plans while being sensitive to time. constraints and resource availability.
- Other duties as required.

**Qualifications**:

- 1 or more years of utility industry experience would be preferred.
- Proficient in utilizing AutoCAD for 2D drafting and design.
- Must have a high attention to detail and review their own drawings for compliance with client standards.
- Must be able to interpret electrical distribution, civil, deep utility, and grading CAD drawings.
- Experience using SpatialNET and understanding of splicing in SpatialNET is an asset.
- Experience with ArcGIS/ESRI would be an asset.
- Basic knowledge of fibre, copper, coaxial & civil design is an asset.
- Knowledge of major telecommunication design and drafting standards is an asset.
- Knowledge of URD (Underground Residential Distribution) design standards and processes is an asset.
- Class 5 driver’s license.

Primary offers a highly competitive compensation package including, competitive salaries, bonuses, Health & Dental benefits, Health Care Spending Account, flexible work schedules, paid vacation, Company Matching RRSP, flex days, and several career and professional development opportunities.

**ABOUT US****:
Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of **EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award**, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

**GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress****:
Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

**HEALTH & SAFETY****:
The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.