How to become a civil or Structural engineering draughtsperson

Official title: Civil/Structural engineering draughtsperson

Also called: Building drafter, Building draughtsman, Building draughtsperson, Building information modelling (BIM) technician, Civil engineering drafter, Civil engineering draughtsman, Civil engineering draughtsperson, Plumbing design drafter, Plumbing design draughtsman, Plumbing design draughtsperson, Steel detailer, Structural engineering drafter

Civil/Structural engineering draughtsperson prepares working drawings from a designer’s sketches and specifications for use in civil engineering projects. He/she specialises in preparing working drawings and detailed specifications for the construction of bridges, dams, tunnels, railways, roads, industrial and other large buildings, waste disposal and flood control systems and other civil engineering projects. He/she may specialise in preparing working drawings for construction of large steel-framed or reinforced concrete structures and be designated accordingly.

Main tasks

• Preparing and revising working drawings from sketches and specifications prepared by engineers and designers for the manufacture, installation and erection of machinery and equipment or for the construction, modification, maintenance and repair of buildings, dams, bridges, roads and other architectural and civil engineering projects
• Operating computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) equipment to create, modify and generate hard-copy and digital representations of working drawings
• Operating digitising table or similar equipment to transfer hard-copy representations of working drawings, maps and other curves to digital form
• Arranging for completed drawings to be reproduced for use as working drawings

Ways in

• Polytechnic or ITE: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec). Related ITE courses: Higher Nitec in Civil & Structural Engineering Design; Technical Engineer Diploma in Civil & Structural Engineering. Peernovo matched these from course names; ITE does not publish which jobs each course leads to.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $33,828 a year. The middle half earn $29,652 to $48,000 a year.
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a civil or Structural engineering draughtsperson?

Ways in include: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec).

How much does a civil or Structural engineering draughtsperson earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $33,828 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $29,652 to $48,000.

Will AI change the work of a civil or Structural engineering draughtsperson?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026