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5 of 8

Track

Support

Family rungs priced

S1 · S2 · S3 · S4 · S5

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industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

2 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Senior technical drafting specialist who leads the production of detailed engineering drawings for energy and mining projects. At the Principal Support Specialist (S5) level, the role owns function-wide support practice, program-level and systemic support problems, and drives support strategy across the function. Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice.

What this level does

Creates the data-recording, documentation and record-control procedures a mining engineering group works to — standardizing how survey, geological, inspection and cost data are captured, coded and archived across the mine-management and document systems
Resolves the most complex records and data-integrity problems spanning multiple operations and systems, developing the techniques and validation checks that prevent recurrence
Acts as the working lead and facilitator for the support team, allocating and sequencing documentation and data-preparation work across projects and coaching senior support staff on specialized cases
Serves as the recognized in-house specialist on mine-management and document-management software configuration, defining templates, coding schemes and reporting formats and training engineers and support staff in their use
Contributes support-side expertise to how new operations or systems are stood up, advising engineers on what field records and data structures are needed to feed planning, budgeting and safety reporting

Knowledge applied: Highly skilled specialist in mine-planning records and system administration; contributes to the creation of new procedures and templates within that area.
Complexity & problem solving: Resolves complex, cross-operation data and records issues and develops the techniques and validation concepts that prevent them recurring.
Collaboration & interaction: Acts as working lead and facilitator for the support team; provides guidance to and influences peers and trains engineers on systems.
Typical experience: 6+ years; expert in the mining engineering-support specialty.

Skills at this level

Mine Management Software: — Enters, validates and retrieves geological, survey, production and cost data in mine-management platforms so planning engineers have accurate inputs; at senior levels configures templates and coding schemes for new operations.
Document Management Software: — Files, revision-controls and archives engineering drawings, standards, site-inspection reports and equipment evaluations in the document management system, applying naming and access conventions that keep mining records auditable.
Site Inspection Recording: — Captures equipment readings and field observations onto inspection checklists during mining site visits, and assembles the completed records into standard technical inspection reports.
Equipment Evaluation Documentation: — Compiles equipment-evaluation forms and history from field notes, chasing missing readings and formatting the results to the engineering group's reporting standard.
Technical Reporting: — Formats field notes, readings and data into the standard technical-reporting templates used for mine-planning, inspections and equipment reviews, ensuring completeness and internal consistency.
Cost Data Preparation: — Transcribes and consolidates labor, equipment and operational-cost figures into budget-plan spreadsheets that support engineers' mining project budgeting.
Survey and Geological Data Reconciliation: — Cross-checks survey, geological and GPR field readings against management-software records, deciding which source governs when figures conflict and correcting errors before data feeds the planning workflow.
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Log Handling: — Records and organizes GPR field logs against survey and management-software data so subsurface readings are captured consistently for engineering use.
Records Revision Control: — Manages versions of engineering drawings, standards and reports so superseded documents are archived and the current governing revision is always identifiable.
Data Integrity Validation: — Checks incoming mining data and records against expected ranges and validation rules, flagging or resolving discrepancies and, at senior levels, designing the validation checks that prevent recurrence.
Support Procedure Development: — Creates and standardizes the data-recording, documentation and record-control procedures a mining engineering group works to, and trains engineers and support staff to follow them.
Administrative Support: — Assembles and distributes mine-planning documentation packets, meeting materials and correspondence, and maintains the clerical processes that keep the engineering support function running.

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Pay across the ladder

Engineering Services (Energy/Mining) — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

-1.0%Engineers, All Other · United States

152,340 → 150,750 jobs

9,300 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 8,967

Growth — new jobs (4%)Exits — backfill (96%)

4% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +2.1%
Growth share of hiring: 4%
Exit / retention pressure high: 96%
Openings / year: 9,300

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level S5 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$101k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$91k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$84k

Boulder, CO$83k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$83k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$79k

Lexington Park, MD$77k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$77k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $61k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates S5 (S5 — Principal Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Function-wide support practice
Autonomy: Sets direction for the support discipline
Complexity: Program-level and systemic support problems
Impact: Support strategy across the function
Decision rights: Authority over support practice and standards
Leadership: Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

S5is the top of this family's ladder — progression from here is a lattice move (see adjacent roles below), not a rung.

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People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Chief Engineering Services Officer	jf_engineering_services_energy_mining::E5	$340,737†	confident0.06
Director of Engineering Drafting Services	jf_engineering_services_energy_mining::M5	$188,371†	confident0.06
Staff Engineering Drafter	jf_engineering_services_energy_mining::P5	$138,423†	confident0.06
Advanced Engineering Drafting Technician	jf_engineering_services_energy_mining::S4	$56,408†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 17-2199

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The Job Swatch

S5

jf_engineering_services_energy_mining::S5

Lead Engineering Draftsperson

Engineering Services (Energy/Mining)

no content fingerprint

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Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: S
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: engineering_expansion
Family: engineering_services_energy_mining
Universal level: 5 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

No content fingerprint for this profile.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Aeronautical · S5review0.17

Agricultural · S5review0.17

Agronomist · S5review0.17

Application Services · S5review0.17

Chemical · S5review0.17

Communication · S5review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

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Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 17-2199	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

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Gaps shown as gaps

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Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)