Electrical Designer Apprentice
Job Description
About the Apprenticeship Opportunity
The Designer Apprenticeships provides an incredible opportunity to leverage your drafting skills to learn the design and engineering process of a variety of engineering disciplines. We are offering year-long positions, providing salary, training, and a flexible schedule with an opportunity to achieve Employee Ownership at the end of the program!
The Work:
Our Designer Apprentices are responsible for revising and preparing drawings of basic components from explicit verbal or written instructions and detailed sketches. This position successfully plots drawings; learns and follows company and client drafting standards and procedures; and, most importantly, learns the engineering and design practices of their selected business line.
The Transmission & Distribution group is responsible for the planning and design of electrical transmission projects in power delivery, including overhead transmission, underground transmission, distribution systems, substation design, telecommunication & network engineering, pipelines, renewable power integration, security, grid modernization and more.
Here's what you need:
Are you a self-motivated difference maker with a passion for innovation, design, and infrastructure? Then bring your entrepreneurial spirit to a top-ranked, and nationally recognized “Great Place to Work” to start building your story at Burns & McDonnell.
- Pursuing an associate degree in the Applied Science, focus on Computer Automated
Drafting and Design (CAD) is preferred.
- Minimum of 3.0 GPA strongly preferred
- Ambition to do more than drafting with the skills you learn in the classroom and in the office.
- Communication skills that make it easy for you to operate successfully on a team.
- Engagement and ownership of any task put in front of you.
- Passion for success!
Earn: A competitive hourly wage while you learn a lucrative skill set
Learn: Enrollment in an academic program during the apprenticeship is program mandatory. Associate in Applied Science degree program in Computer-Aided Drafting or related program preferred
Education Requirements: Some CAD coursework preferred
Hours Per Week: 25 – 35 (flexible, but fixed schedule during company’s core business hours, Monday-Friday 7am-6pm)
Location: On-site in Downtown Chicago Office, not a remote position
Apprenticeship Term: 6 Months - 1 Year, with eligibility for full-time employment after successful completion of program.
START DATE - Early Spring 2026
Wage: $19.55-$22.85/hr
Other Eligibility Requirements: Subject to criminal background checks and drug screening; must be eligible for work in the US
At Burns & McDonnell, the Design Technology team is not just CAD anymore! Our team has a strong, goal-oriented focus on developing the next generation of designers, coordinators, and technologists. These team-members are pivotal in the engineering and construction of high voltage electrical substations, including layout, power system analysis, and control/relay design, designing high voltage transmission structures, low voltage distribution networks, gas pipeline infrastructure, and much more. Our Design Technology team is blazing new trails and driving a culture of innovation at Burns & McDonnell, providing unlimited opportunities for growth and exploration into project execution as well as the ever-expanding world of new technologies.