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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property. | Prepare information regarding design, structure specifications, materials, color, equipment, estimated costs, or construction time. | |||
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Consult with client to determine functional and spatial requirements of structure. | ||||
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Direct activities of workers engaged in preparing drawings and specification documents. | ||||
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Plan layout of project. | ||||
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Prepare contract documents for building contractors. | ||||
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Prepare scale drawings. | ||||
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Integrate engineering element into unified design. | ||||
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Conduct periodic on-site observation of work during construction to monitor compliance with plans. | ||||
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Administer construction contracts. | ||||
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Represent client in obtaining bids and awarding construction contracts. | ||||
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Prepare operating and maintenance manuals, studies, and reports. | ||||
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Seek new work opportunities through marketing, writing proposals, or giving presentations. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Architects, Except Landscape and Marine
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Fine Arts | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. | |||
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Sociology and Anthropology | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Physics | Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes. | |||
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Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Management of Financial Resources | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. | |||
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Management of Material Resources | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
1ST Pricing Window & Door Toolkit | Procurement software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat software | Document management software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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ArchiOffice software | Office suite software | |||
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AutoDesSys form Z | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk 3ds Max for Design Visualization | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk Architectural Studio | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk AutoCAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk Revit | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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AzTechSoft GPS2CAD | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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BeamChek software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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CADFind Sketch & Search software | Document management software | |||
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Computer aided design CAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Computer aided manufacturing CAM software | Computer aided manufacturing CAM software | |||
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Craftsman CD Estimator | Project management software | |||
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Database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Design Workshop software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Drcauto Smart Architect LT Pro | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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FEMA EMMIE | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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FileNet P8 software | Document management software | |||
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Google SketchUp software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Graphisoft ArchiCAD | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Intuit QuickBooks software | Accounting software | |||
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Micro-Press MicroStation PowerDraft | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Microsoft Access | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Internet Explorer | Internet browser software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Project | Project management software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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MyFamilySoftware Instant Architect | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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NavisWorks Jetstream | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Primavera Systems software | Project management software | |||
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Quality Plans & Software HVAC Calculator | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Quark software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Roof Builder Tools software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal (accounting feature) | Accounting software | |||
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Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal (calendar and scheduling feature) | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal (project management feature) | Project management software | |||
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Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal (time accounting feature) | Time accounting software | |||
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VectorWorks ARCHITECT | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Virtual reality modeling language VRML software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Architectural templates | Templates | |||
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Arm drafting machines | Drafting kits or sets | |||
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Circular saws | Power saws | |||
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Compasses | Compasses | |||
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Computer laser printers | Laser printers | |||
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Computer-guided milling machines | Milling machines | |||
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Diazo copiers | Photocopiers | |||
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Digital cameras | Digital cameras | |||
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Disk grinding machines | Grinding machines | |||
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Dividers | Compasses | |||
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Engineering copiers | Photocopiers | |||
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Fretsaws | Power saws | |||
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Hand saws | Saws | |||
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Mat knives | Mat knives | |||
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Mitre boxes | Mitre box | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Parallel bars | Straight edges | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Plotters | Plotter printers | |||
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Precision knives | Utility knives | |||
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Soldering irons | Soldering irons or guns | |||
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Tablet computers | Tablet computers | |||
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Thermal saws | Saws | |||
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Track drafting machines | Drafting kits or sets | |||
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Triangles | Triangles | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Master's Degree | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Required Level of Education | Bachelor's Degree | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Architect | |||
Architectural Designer | |||
Architectural Project Manager | |||
Architectural Superintendent | |||
Building Architect | |||
Building Architectural Designer | |||
Building Consultant | |||
City Designer | |||
Commercial Green Building Architect | |||
Commercial Green Building Designer | |||
Commercial Green Retrofit Architect | |||
Design Architect | |||
Facilities Planner | |||
Facility Designer | |||
Green Building Architect | |||
Green Building Design Specialist | |||
Green Building Materials Designer | |||
Home Designer | |||
House Designer | |||
Intern Architect | |||
Location Analyst | |||
Location Man | |||
Location Worker | |||
Plumbing Designer | |||
Principal | |||
Project Architect | |||
Project Manager | |||
Real Estate Site Analyst | |||
Residential Designer | |||
Residential Green Building Designer | |||
School Plant Consultant | |||
Space Planner | |||
Structural Architect | |||
Structural Designer | |||
Supervising Architect | |||
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