Drafting and design recruitment for home builders.
Drafters and design managers who turn a floor plan into working drawings a builder can price and build.
- Permanent roles
- Residential builders
- Australia-wide
What the role involves.
In a home building business the drafting team sits between sales and site. Drafters prepare and amend plans, produce working drawings for approval and construction, and handle the changes clients ask for along the way. Design managers lead that team and keep design, compliance and cost connected.
Builders need people who know residential drafting software, the approval steps where they build, and either the builder's own range of designs or custom work.
We learn how your drafting office runs and what it produces before we look for anyone.
Typical titles
- Drafter
- Senior drafter
- Drafting manager
- Design manager
Builders we recruit for
- Project home builders
- Custom and luxury builders
- Knockdown rebuild specialists
- Duplex and dual-occupancy builders
- Regional builders
What builders look for.
Residential software
Confident in the drafting and design software used for homes.
Approvals knowledge
Understanding the planning and approval steps in the states the builder works in.
Accurate drawings
Plans that estimators can price from and supervisors can build from.
Working with sales
Turning client changes into clear, amended plans.
Signs it is time to hire.
Drawings are holding up starts
Sites are ready but the plans or approvals are not.
Site keeps finding errors
Supervisors are ringing the office because drawings do not match what can be built.
Sales promise what drafting cannot deliver
Nobody is linking what is sold to what can be drawn and approved.
What we ask before a name reaches you.
- 01
The software they use
Which drafting and design packages they work in and to what level.
- 02
Where they know the rules
The councils, codes and approval pathways they have worked with.
- 03
Standard range or custom
Whether their experience is in a builder's set range, custom homes or both.
- 04
Accuracy under volume
How many jobs they carry at once and how they check their own work.
Where the role leads.
A common path in residential building. Every builder names the steps a little differently.
- 01Junior drafter
- 02Drafter
- 03Senior drafter
- 04Drafting or design manager
Common questions.
Anything else, call 0413 145 723 or email dejans@sprucetalent.com.au.
Do you recruit design managers as well as drafters?
Yes. We recruit across the drafting office, from drafters to the people who lead it.
Do you recruit building designers as well as drafters?
Yes. We recruit drafters, building designers and the managers who lead a drafting office.
Does approvals experience in one state carry to another?
Partly. The drawing skills carry, but planning rules and approval pathways differ by state and council. We look for experience where you build, or people who have made that move before.
Which areas do you cover?
Every state and territory in Australia.
Are these permanent roles?
Yes. Spruce Talent recruits permanent roles only.
Will my current employer find out?
No. We do not send your details to any builder until you have agreed to that role.
Start with a conversation.
Hiring or looking? Tell us and we will call you back.
