Lead Wiring Diagram Designer
About this role
- Produce accurate, complete point-to-point wiring diagrams, panel layouts, and schematic support drawings in AutoCAD using BPP tool palettes, custom blocks, and title block standards. You stay on the board, especially for complex or high-priority work.
- Assign and balance drawing work across the team based on project priority, due dates, and each designer's capacity. Keep the Head of EE Design informed on workload, bottlenecks, and at-risk deliverables.
- Review the team's point-to-point diagrams and panel layouts for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with BPP standards before release. You're the last check before drawings leave the group.
- Track recurring errors and knowledge gaps. Build targeted training, documentation, or quick-reference guides to close them.
- Own BPP drafting conventions for the wiring group: layer naming, block usage, title blocks, wire tagging, terminal mapping, and annotation. Keep them current and make sure the team follows them.
- Develop and maintain the wiring team's block and library set. Work directly with the CAD team to build, test, and roll out custom blocks, dynamic blocks, and tool palettes the designers rely on.
- Onboard new Wiring Designers. Walk them through BPP tool palettes, custom blocks, and dynamic blocks hands-on, and run them through a defined skills checklist so ramp up is consistent.
- Maintain a training curriculum that lays out the skills and competencies every designer should hit, from junior through mid-level.
- Lead process-review sessions to find inefficiencies and error sources in the drafting workflow. Drive the fixes.
- Build and maintain checklists, best-practice guides, and quick-reference docs that standardize common tasks (wire tagging, terminal mapping, panel spacing, revision control).
- Serve as the primary point of contact between the wiring design team and EE management. Surface capacity constraints, skill gaps, and urgent deadlines early.
- Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering and Production to gather as-built feedback, then turn that into drafting improvements the team adopts.
- Stay current on applicable standards (NEC, UL 891, UL 1558, ANSI/IEEE) as they apply to panel wiring, labeling, and construction. Be the team's first stop when a code or standards question comes up in a customer spec or drawing package.
- 6+ years creating point-to-point wiring diagrams and control panel layouts, ideally in switchgear, control panel, or industrial power distribution manufacturing.
- 2+ years leading or supervising a small team of drafters or designers.
- Expert in AutoCAD. Strong with tool palettes, custom and dynamic blocks, layer management, and title block standards.
- Reads and interprets single-line diagrams, schematics, and customer specs without hand-holding.
- Solid working knowledge of NEC, UL 891, UL 1558, and ANSI/IEEE as they apply to panel wiring, labeling, and clearances.
- Sharp eye for detail. Catches the small stuff (wire tag mismatches, terminal numbering errors, wire sizing, missing revisions) and teaches the team to do the same.
- Clear written and verbal communication. Can give direct feedback, push back when something looks wrong, and explain the why behind a standard.
- Experience with switchgear, PDUs, or data center power equipment.
- Familiarity with AutoCAD Electrical or similar schematic-capture tools.
- Exposure to SharePoint-based document control workflows.
- Prior experience in a manufacturing environment with direct shop floor interaction.
Company at a glance
At Butcher Power Products (BPP), we are redefining what it means to be a power solutions manufacturer. While initially born out of frustration with complacency, long lead times, and sub-par quality in the space, we have scaled with a relentless dedication to being better in every area...not just delivery times. That commitment has built our reputation as true disruptors of the industry.
With over 100 years of electrical distribution expertise, a 100,000+ sq ft manufacturing footprint in Sacramento, CA and a culture grounded in integrity and accountability, we deliver mission-critical and industrial power solutions at scale...faster, better and without compromise.
What sets BPP apart is our ability to handle capacity without limits, our people who care deeply about solving problems instead of making excuses and our commitment to real manufacturing...no imports disguised as domestic builds. Every product is engineered and manufactured in-house to the highest standards. And when mistakes happen, we own them, fix them and put processes in place to ensure they don’t happen again. That is why national developers, distributors, hyperscalers, and contractors nationwide trust us with their most critical projects.
Our offerings include UL 891 switchboards, EUSERC utility-metered switchboards, medium voltage switchgear from 5 to 38 kV, static and automatic transfer switches, power distribution units, remote power panels and UL 67 panelboards. From custom-engineered solutions to our stocked RTG offerings, we deliver with uncompromising quality and service our partners can trust, with every product built to exceed expectations.
In an industry where uptime is non-negotiable, BPP delivers your entire one line, on time. We’re not just faster. We’re better.
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