Training & Careers

Engineering draftsmen for mechanical and plant engineering produce precise construction instructions/technical drawings for plants, equipment, machinery and buildings. Traditionally they worked on a drawing board, but now they use a computer. They map every detail of the designs developed by engineers and designers. They prepare technical calculations (length, duration, angles, forces, speeds, mechanical and thermal processes). Engineering draftsmen work in the engineering departments of industrial firms.

Prerequisites:

• Candidates should ideally possess an advanced technical certificate and have good knowledge of mathematics and physics, technical understanding and like doing precise computer-based work.

Duration of training:

• 3.5 years, intermediate exams prior to completion of 2nd year

Career perspectives:

• Trainer, foreman, engineer, designer, following attendance at a technical secondary school and graduating from university with a degree in mechanical engineering