At a Glance
- Tasks: Create detailed drawings and designs for beautiful memorials and monuments.
- Company: Join a family-owned business with over 30 years of experience in memorial design.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary of $80,000 plus super and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Collaborate with skilled stonemasons and engineers in a dynamic work environment.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful impact by helping families honour their loved ones through your designs.
- Qualifications: Diploma or higher in a relevant field and at least 12 months of experience required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 80000 $ per year.
Metropolis Monuments is seeking a highly skilled full-time Draftsperson to prepare drawings, technical plans and illustrations to precise specifications for our monument projects. Competitive salary of $80,000 plus super. Supportive and collaborative team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Preparing scaled drawings of headstones, monuments, plaques, vaults, kerbing and memorial structures from client briefs, photographs and sketches.
- Producing layout drawings for inscriptions, lettering, emblems, motifs and ceramic photo placements, specifying font, spacing and depth.
- Preparing dimensioned plans showing stone type, finish, thickness and component sizes for fabrication in the workshop.
- Ensuring designs comply with cemetery trust and council requirements (permitted dimensions, plot sizes, foundation and setback rules).
- Preparing presentation illustrations and visual proofs so clients can approve the design before production.
- Using CAD software to produce 2D and 3D drawings of monuments and stone components.
- Preparing cutting and fabrication drawings, including files for CNC machines, waterjet cutters and sandblast stencils.
- Calculating dimensions, weights and material quantities to support costing and stone ordering.
- Revising drawings in response to client feedback, cemetery authority comments or site constraints.
- Maintaining a drawing register and records of approved designs for each job.
- Meeting with families and clients to understand their requirements, often in sensitive bereavement circumstances, and translating these into workable designs.
- Advising clients on design options, stone selection, durability and regulatory limits.
- Liaising with structural engineers on foundation, anchoring and pinning details for larger monuments, mausoleums and memorial walls.
- Preparing and submitting drawings to cemetery trusts and councils for permit approval, and responding to their requests for changes.
- Coordinating with stonemasons, letter cutters, fixers and installers so drawings reflect fabrication and installation requirements.
Qualification and experience:
- Diploma or higher in a relevant field.
- At least 12 months relevant experience.
- Ability to work with precision and maintain accurate specifications.
- Good communication and time management skills.
About Company: Metropolis Monuments is a masonry business owned by a family and has more than 30 years' experience in the design, production, restoration and installation of high-end memorials all over New South Wales; each year it carries out about 250 to 300 monument and memorial installations, which necessitates the use of highly skilled stonemasons and draftspeople in order to keep up the required level of production, workmanship and to meet customer expectations.
Work Type: Full time
Salary: $80,000
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