Build your own offshore CAD team. Dedicated, full-time draftspersons who work in your software, to your standards, as part of your team.
Offshore Staffing
An offshore CAD drafter from WorkMate Pro is a dedicated, full-time remote professional who produces drawings and documentation for your projects. They work in your software, to your templates and drawing standards, as a draftsperson embedded in your team. Your engineers and designers review and approve everything they produce.
Local draftspersons are hard to hire and expensive, so engineers and designers end up doing drafting and documentation instead of design. Workload spikes around tenders and project deadlines, and freelancers rarely work for ongoing needs. Civil engineering draftspersons are tracked by Jobs and Skills Australia as a distinct occupation, and national skills-shortage data has found that many of the occupations in shortage in both years were engineering and technician roles. A dedicated offshore CAD drafter gives your firm steady drawing capacity, so your engineers can spend their time engineering.
Sources: Jobs and Skills Australia: Civil Engineering Draftspersons · Jobs and Skills Australia: current skills shortages
Part of our Complete Guide to Offshore Staffing for Australian Businesses.
The Problem
Experienced draftspersons are scarce and expensive, and good ones are rarely on the market for long.
Senior engineers end up redlining drawings at 9pm instead of doing the design work only they can do.
Workload spikes around tenders and project milestones, and a permanent local hire is hard to justify for the peaks alone.
Freelancers are unreliable for ongoing work, and drawing quality and standards vary from one to the next.
What They Do
Best Fit
Your drafter works in your CAD software and licences, to your templates, title blocks, layer standards and drawing conventions. Tell us which tools your firm uses and we recruit for them.
Engineers handle design and analysis; drafters document it. Many firms pair a dedicated drafter with an offshore engineer, so engineering time goes to design and documentation gets done in parallel.
Explore Offshore EngineersSupport, Not a Replacement
Dedicated, Not Freelance
Your drafter learns your standards and builds project knowledge, so quality improves over time instead of resetting with every new freelancer.
Recruited, employed and supported by WorkMate Pro from equipped offices in the Philippines, with payroll, equipment and ongoing support handled for you.
Begin with one dedicated drafter and add more as your project pipeline grows.
The Numbers
Rates for cad draftersdepend on the discipline, software and experience level you need. Tell us what you're looking for and we'll send a quote with recruitment, payroll and office costs included.
Get a Custom QuoteHow It Works
From your first call to your first day with a new team member — we handle the heavy lifting.
We understand your business, the role you need, and your goals in a 30-minute no-obligation conversation.
Our recruitment team identifies candidates with the right skills and experience, presenting you with a curated shortlist.
Meet shortlisted candidates, review their work, and choose your hire. We coordinate interviews and support your selection.
We handle employment contracts, payroll setup, and office onboarding. Your new team member starts ready to work.
From day one, your offshore team member works within your business using your preferred communication tools.
FAQs
Prepares and updates technical drawings for your projects, including plans, details, shop drawings and 3D models, in your software and to your standards. Your engineers and designers review and approve the work, so they spend more time on design and less on documentation.
Yes. Whether you call the role a draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson or CAD technician, we recruit for the disciplines and software your firm needs, from architectural and structural drafting to mechanical and shop drawings.
We recruit for the CAD software your firm uses. Drafters work in your licences, templates and layer standards, so tell us your toolset on the strategy call and we match candidates to it.
Your firm. The drafter prepares the drawings; your registered engineers and designers check, approve and certify them, exactly as they would for an in-house drafter.
Drafters work inside your systems with named accounts and access only to the projects they need. See our Data Security for Offshore Teams guide for the full breakdown.
Yes. Many firms start with one dedicated drafter and add more as workload grows. Ask us about engagement options on your strategy call.
Book a free, no-obligation strategy call with our WA-based team. We'll walk you through how offshore hiring works and help you find the right fit for your business.
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