Everforth ECS is seeking a Marine AutoCAD Drafter to work in one of the following three locations: (Newport, OR /Gulfport, MS / or Newport, RI).
We are seeking a Marine AutoCAD Drafter to support engineering projects by preparing precise technical drawings, maintaining drawing records, and ensuring compliance with federal standards and agency requirements. Candidates are required to have experience in the marine industry with an understanding of typical ship drawings/documentation. The preferred location is at one of three NOAA’s Marine Operations locations:
- Newport, OR (2002 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 97365)
- Gulfport, MS (1040 23rd Ave, Gulfport, MS 39501
- Newport, RI (Naval Station Newport, 960 Peary Street, Newport, RI 02841)
Remote locations will be considered for the highly qualified candidate.
Key Responsibilities and Duty Breakdown
- Technical Drafting and Design (70%): Prepare, update, and modify detailed 2D and 3D drawings using AutoCAD software. Develop layouts, schematics, and as-built drawings based on engineering specifications, field data, and project requirements. Ensure all drawings meet applicable codes, standards, and agency guidelines.
- Drawing Review and Quality Control: Review drawings for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with project specifications and federal drafting standards. Perform quality checks to ensure consistency in layering, scaling, dimensioning, and formatting.
- Project Coordination and Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, architects, project managers, and other stakeholders to interpret design concepts and incorporate feedback. Participate in project meetings and provide drafting support when required.
- Document and Configuration Management: Maintain organized drawing files, version control, and document repositories in accordance with NOAA policies. Ensure proper naming conventions, archiving, and retrieval of drawings.
- Field Verification and As-Built Updates: Incorporate field data, site visits, and redline markups into final drawings. Update as-built drawings to reflect actual conditions and completed work.
- Standards Compliance and Process Improvement: Ensure adherence to agency CAD standards, national codes, and best practices. Recommend improvements to drafting procedures, templates, and workflows to enhance efficiency.
- Fleet Drawing and Technical Manual Management. (20%): Responsible for identifying, reviewing, and updating fleet drawings and associated technical manuals for each assigned ship to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with current standards. Tasks include developing and maintaining comprehensive index lists for each vessel, ensuring all drawings and documentation are properly cataloged and easily retrievable. Additionally, consolidate and standardize drawing templates in accordance with IAW S0021B Rev 1.0, ensuring uniform formatting, version control, and adherence to applicable technical and configuration management requirements.
- Fleet Drawing and Technical Manual Uploading & AODocs Metadata Management (5%): Responsible for uploading finalized fleet drawings and technical manuals into the AODocs document management system, ensuring all required metadata fields are accurately completed and maintained. This includes document titles, applicable NOAA or agency document numbers, revision status, and effective dates. Verify the accuracy and completeness of all metadata entries and ensure proper document classification and folder placement to support efficient search, retrieval, and configuration control. Maintain consistency with established document management standards and ensure all records are current, traceable, and compliant with agency requirements.
- Administrative and Reporting Tasks (5%): Prepare status reports, track deliverables to meet timelines, and support contract or project documentation requirements. Assist in responding to data calls, audits, or management inquiries. Provide support to print large prints for drawings to ships as requested.
- Workload Flexibility: The duties and percentage allocations identified in this position description represent the typical distribution of work; however, workload priorities may change based on organizational needs, mission requirements, project schedules, vessel maintenance availability, staffing levels, and emerging engineering priorities. Employees may be assigned additional related duties or temporarily perform work outside the listed percentage allocations to meet operational requirements and ensure mission success.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Candidates are required to have experience in the marine industry with an understanding of typical ship drawings/documentation.
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team.
- Ability to organize technical documentation (hard copy and electronic).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Skills Required
- Proficiency in AutoCAD for 2D and 3D drafting
- Experience in the marine industry with understanding of ship drawings and documentation
- Knowledge of federal drafting standards and agency CAD standards
- Experience with drawing review, quality control, layering, scaling, and dimensioning practices
- Experience with document and configuration management, version control, and organized drawing file systems
- Experience uploading documents and managing metadata in AODocs or similar document management systems
- Ability to incorporate field verification, redline markups, and update as-built drawings
- Familiarity with S0021B Rev 1.0 drawing/template standards
- Ability to work independently and on a team
- Ability to organize technical documentation (hard copy and electronic)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
