Technical Designer / AutoCAD Drafter

About the Company

Coup d’Esprit is an industry-leading art consultancy group with world-class manufacturing capabilities. We specialise in bespoke artwork, decorative art, and art-led design solutions for luxury hospitality, residential, and commercial projects, delivering custom artworks from concept through fabrication and installation.

About the Role

Technical Designer / AutoCAD Drafter – Custom Artworks & Installations. Location: Bangkok, Thailand. Employment Type: Full-time, part-time, or freelance contract. Language: English required; Thai helpful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare AutoCAD technical drawing packages (DWG, PDF) for custom hospitality artworks including framed artworks, sculptures, natural-material pieces, wall-mounted and suspended installations.
• Convert concept designs, renders, sketches, reference images and design notes into buildable manufacturing and shop drawings.
• Produce plans, elevations, sections, enlarged details, exploded diagrams, frame profiles, build-ups, substrates, backing and fixing details, and mounting systems.
• Prepare drawing sheets suitable for client review, contractor coordination, quotation, fabrication, production and installation, maintaining title blocks, revision histories, file naming and CAD layer standards.
• Read and review architectural and interior design drawings (plans, elevations, reflected ceiling plans, FF&E layouts) to coordinate artwork locations, mounting heights, wall/ceiling conditions, clearances and installation requirements.
• Extract dimensions and setting-out information, identify conflicts with architectural or interior conditions, and raise coordination questions or technical risks before issue.
• Coordinate with designers, art consultants, fabricators, project managers, suppliers, installers and, when required, engineers; revise drawings based on feedback.
• Help develop a reusable technical drawing library for typical frame details, fixings, hanging systems, substrates and construction methods.

Qualifications

• Strong AutoCAD 2D drafting skills and the ability to prepare clean, accurate technical drawings (not just visual layouts).
• Good understanding of manufacturing, assembly, materials, fixings, tolerances and fabrication/installation sequence.
• Ability to read and interpret sketches, renders, interior design drawings, architectural drawings, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, sections, setting-out drawings and FF&E layouts.
• Good English communication skills for drawing notes, technical queries and coordination.
• Strong attention to detail, organised file management and revision control, and the ability to work independently and ask clear technical questions when information is missing.
• Preferred: Experience with hospitality, interior design, FF&E, furniture, decorative arts, product design, sculpture, metalwork, joinery, framing, signage, millwork or preparing shop drawings for factories/contractors.

Additional Information

• Onsite work in Bangkok.
• Role supports luxury hospitality projects; the position is technical drafting/shop drawings (not concept design or creative artist role).